Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English-born , actually , and we got on like a house on fire . |
| 2 | They got on like a house on fire and did n't stop talking afterwards — it was Julian and Robert who wound each other up . |
| 3 | We got on like a house on fire . |
| 4 | Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe . |
| 5 | Seconds later they were off again , and she shut her eyes tight , pressed her cheek against his back and clung on like a limpet . |
| 6 | Ellwood walked to his car and got in like a man with a purpose accomplished . |
| 7 | Cranston snored gently like a child , muttering now and again and smacking his lips . |
| 8 | Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time . |
| 9 | The lightning was the forked kind and it branched suddenly like a firework and yet like the limb of a blazing tree . |
| 10 | He 'd shifted a lot of linen , some bags of which weighed in like a circus fat lady . |
| 11 | Billy 's short legs kept getting tangled in the heather , so he bounced along like a kangaroo through the springy tufts . |
| 12 | I charged in like a bull . |
| 13 | In the worst of three public falls , he ‘ crashed over like a tree ’ at the 1936 Democratic convention , but aides rushed to hide him and pick him up . |
| 14 | ‘ And built just like a jukebox , I 'll bet . ’ |
| 15 | Rincewind ducked , jerked backwards like a tumbler , and came up running . |
| 16 | Mrs Healy moved away like a ship under full sail . |
| 17 | Tommy bolted off like a greyhound released from the slips , and the two other men watched as he scampered across the open ground , until some twenty seconds later he reached the safety of the trees . |
| 18 | the ray rose up like a revenant |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ted jerked up like a man who 'd been zapped with a thousand volts . |
| 21 | At their back was a giant oak , hollowed out like a cave , and before them an apron of lawn . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He wanted to be picked up and wrung out like a floor cloth to get the stuff out of his system . |
| 24 | Raising his voice a little , so that it cracked out like a whiplash , he said tersely , ‘ Off wi' thoo . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Sobbing and screaming , she thrashed about like a woman possessed . |
| 27 | Her eyes were on his mouth and , as though spellbound , she watched his lips forming the erotic words while heat suffused her body and her heart bounced about like a bumble-puppy . |
| 28 | The ingenuity of it was that it operated exactly like a Jacquard loom , which is a loom for weaving tapestries without human control no matter how intricate or varied the design . |
| 29 | Reality was quick and did not brook negotiation ; in ‘ that sad swamp on the Potomac ’ , as North later liked to call Washington , reality passed over like a flare of marsh gas , too swift for most of the inhabitants to catch . |
| 30 | Mrs Margaret Johnson , a 32 year old housewife living in Sutton Coldfield , came on like a country western singer . |