Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I fought back like a veritable lion but my sword and dagger were in the garret and who in the tavern would listen to my screams ? |
| 2 | I charged in like a bull . |
| 3 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 4 | At this party , I rushed around like a student on the last day of school , confronting over and over again people 's incredulity and dismay at my impending departure , assuring them that I could n't believe I was leaving , exchanging addresses and agreeing to keep in touch until the end of time . |
| 5 | The delicacy of the situation , with their parents and often their grandparents there and everything ( as in a thwarted erotic dream ) , would hardly explain the lack of visual stimulation ; and I get on like a house on fire with the girls in the officers ' bordello . |
| 6 | Selina and I get on like a house on fire . |
| 7 | Having said that , in some of the bits of Shoreditch I passed through I stuck out like a sore thumb . |
| 8 | I rolled out like a ball but sneaked back in on the back seat . |
| 9 | I went out like a light . |
| 10 | Something hit me on the back of the head , here , and I went out like a light . |
| 11 | So I stood around like a fool for twenty minutes . |
| 12 | The other would allow the smart to inherit the Earth ( plus a legacy from their wealthy parents ) and console us with the exhortation to work harder if we want more , which goes down like a glass of sand in the unemployment deserts . |
| 13 | Stalls were set up to a considerable depth on either side of the main road , which swelled out like a sausage shaped balloon for half a mile or so and then closed in again . |
| 14 | He 'd shifted a lot of linen , some bags of which weighed in like a circus fat lady . |
| 15 | It has a single lubricator for the cylinders and a single safety valve which divides out like a Drummond safety valve on top of the dome . |
| 16 | For a while the man stood muttering and cursing as he clanked his heavy ring of keys , but at last he found the right one and they stepped on to the moonlit track which ran down like a strip of silver through the overhanging trees . |
| 17 | You 're letting me run around like a headless fucking chicken while you 've got the one piece of information that could lead me straight to her ! ’ |
| 18 | And me turning about like a drowning fish in a mesh of shadows drawing round . |
| 19 | She stalked off like a scarecrow in a rage . |
| 20 | Sobbing and screaming , she thrashed about like a woman possessed . |
| 21 | ‘ About time she helped out like a dutiful daughter . ’ |
| 22 | THE kind of man who lumbers about like an injured bear : the quintessential tough guy — strong , silent and self-con-tained . |
| 23 | Never had she limped around like a milk-soaked rabbit , quiet and withdrawn . |
| 24 | Each knelt in her partitioned alcove , commending heart and soul to God and praying that Satan , who wandered around like a lion seeking his prey , did not harm their bodies or souls that night . |
| 25 | Good heavens , man , do I pay you to stand about like a tailor 's dummy ? |
| 26 | In Sargent [ 1990 ] The Guardian , 3 July , Boreham J at Leeds Crown Court is reported as saying : " You were so negligent as to be reckless as to this woman 's welfare " , by pumping so much oxygen into her during an operation that she swelled up like a Michelin man . |
| 27 | At least have some wine , to put the colour back in your face ; you came in like a ghost . |
| 28 | You came in like a maniac , moving against the flow of traffic , and you 've taken my place ! ’ |
| 29 | Suddenly I just could n't stand it any longer and said I 've GOT to push and she came out like a champagne cork at 8.15 a.m . |
| 30 | ‘ You remember Master , she was the one you followed round like a lapdog at that Press Party last month . ’ |