Example sentences of "[verb] in like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And could we take this yellow one off we 'll find it fits in like a wall , like that look . |
| 2 | Ellwood walked to his car and got in like a man with a purpose accomplished . |
| 3 | Only Hugo , once again in me , part of me , driving in like a needle into flesh , will stop this particular distress . |
| 4 | He 'd shifted a lot of linen , some bags of which weighed in like a circus fat lady . |
| 5 | I charged in like a bull . |
| 6 | At least have some wine , to put the colour back in your face ; you came in like a ghost . |
| 7 | You came in like a maniac , moving against the flow of traffic , and you 've taken my place ! ’ |
| 8 | The teacher came in like a colossus and the class shrank into a shivering line . |
| 9 | That is nipples which are turned in like a crater , or which do not stick up by at least half a centimetre when gently pinched between thumb and forefinger from just beyond the base . |
| 10 | She was towed in like a liner by tugs , her hands and skirts clutched and pulled . |
| 11 | Whatever the colour scheme , whatever the style , these pretty white duvet covers and pillowcases from Lace Lady will fit in like a dream — and make for a good night 's sleep . |
| 12 | He walked in like a culprit . |
| 13 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 14 | Surely one did not spend one 's time locked in like a criminal . |
| 15 | When Superintendent Pumfrey arrived , charging in like a drill sergeant-major bursting in on some particularly slack recruits , he found the local Cullbridge Police already well into the routine work , with the Crumwallises fussing around upstairs and downstairs , vocal but ineffectual . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't know you could read , Jess , ’ Miss Phoebe said , coming in like a whisper . |
| 17 | Then the head falls in like a pumpkin . |
| 18 | Autumn had come , slipping in like a thief , turning the countryside into one brilliant flash of orange , gold , russet and sombre red . |
| 19 | ‘ I just go in like a bull at a gate and most of the time it works . |
| 20 | Her words went in like a knife . |
| 21 | It 's a terrible appetite-killer , sitting opposite someone who picks and fiddles with their food , when all the time you 're desperate to tuck in like a pig . ’ |
| 22 | He would put away the car quietly , leaving the garage open in case the thud of the door woke her , then sneak in like a thief at the back door . |
| 23 | Oh Richard I love having you round here , when you come in like a light in the dark how I enjoy your painting , your polite conversations , the way that you move it 's all so |
| 24 | She asked me to join in like a kind of guinea pig and keep a weekly budget . |
| 25 | Chief Justice Fortescue slid in like a spider , scuttling across to sit next to the Duke . |
| 26 | The light footfalls of their human destroyer faded into the night , and the silence of the brooding trees closed in like a shroud over the scene of his latest carnage . |
| 27 | ‘ When the sea gets to the base of that , the tide 's already too high , and it comes in like a horse trotting , as they say . |
| 28 | ‘ The tide , ’ he had said , ‘ comes in like a horse trotting . ’ |
| 29 | March comes in like a lion |
| 30 | If he lands on a tree or on the ground he sticks in like a dart , and even if he survives the impact he wo n't be able to free himself easily . |