Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Selina and I get on like a house on fire . |
| 3 | ‘ Shift the cattle , work the horses , stick and ball , come back for lunch , an hour 's siesta , and you go out like a light I can tell you , then we play chukkas in the afternoon . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | You stick out like a sore thumb in that ghastly uniform , Charles . |
| 6 | All of a sudden , Alfred strike one karate pose there and leap one leap on the front man , knocking him down , grabbed his machine gun and with two more leaps he was past them and through us as we open up like a black red sea and close again . |
| 7 | We get on like a house on fire — now we no longer live together . |
| 8 | They wander about like a maze . |
| 9 | It stand out like a sore thumb sometimes when I 'm with them , I find people with handicapped children are real people , are people who are people with their children being , talking to them , instead of things that they can give them , you know . |
| 10 | Wind it up and watch it shoot up like a dirty old man 's dick at the sight of a Madonna book . |
| 11 | He simply went through his nose there 's me wah it come out like a bullet in n it ? wisht like that . |