Example sentences of "[v-ing] down like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , this makes all her high moral stances and her bonny sights of yesteryear come tumbling down like a house of cards . |
| 2 | But it can equally be an ‘ invisible elbow ’ which brings the earth 's precarious ecological balance crashing down like a pile of cans in a supermarket . |
| 3 | ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued . |
| 4 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 5 | Madeleine said she did n't mind , but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil . |
| 6 | And you get silences on the phone and you 're thinking this is going down like a lead balloon . |
| 7 | But the Hilder revealed itself , running down like a tinsel thread , crossed at one point by stepping stones , at another by the massive stone pillars that once had supported an aqueduct bringing water to the buildings of the Goughdale Mine . |