Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes down like wine . |
| 2 | Molly uses soap and water to wash her face so we 're going to use the cleansing gel which lathers up like soap . |
| 3 | Flies up like coal under the hammer . ’ |
| 4 | Peels off like rubber . |
| 5 | when the rain comes down like vitriol . |
| 6 | Commonly called yellow fumitory , it comes up like mustard and cress at the foot of every shady wall in the garden and I used to wrench it out with the ruthlessness I used on sycamore seedlings until I discovered it on sale in a nursery for well over £1 a plant . |