Example sentences of "[adv prt] like [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On The Woman I Am , Chaka takes control again and , while the arrangements struggle to fill every available space with drum patterns and horn fills , she keeps swooping in like a dive-bombing seagull and forcing songs and producers into submission . |
| 2 | Keep a baby in like a warm baby-gro |
| 3 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 4 | And these people took them in cleaned them up put them in like a bloody sheet , and all sorts he said |
| 5 | Then the Birmingham Small Arms Company revealed after many a summer that the car she sat in like a burnished throne , and even some of the furs she wore , were not provided by her Prince Charming , Sir Bernard , but by them , the nuts and bolts firm of which he was chairman , as a business expense which they were no longer happy to provide . |
| 6 | But I was determined not to allow myself to be hauled in like a helpless fish as he reeled in his capable line . |
| 7 | Some said his wife did n't turn a hair any more when Sammy was carried in like a drowned rat . |
| 8 | Then it comes in like a tingling feeling . |
| 9 | Mark had blown in like a fresh breeze , hinting , with wild scents , of other delightful worlds where the air was free , pure , invigorating . |
| 10 | Apart from the shame of being kept in like a naughty schoolboy , the constant automatic repetition of the lines taken out of the context of the play could often lodge them in the leakiest actor 's mind . |
| 11 | It was a real Fanny-by-gaslight relic of the old city , redolent of gin and vomit and brutal crimes , and the fog had crept in like an old friend and made a dripping urinal of the walls . |
| 12 | She had enticed them in like an old witch , Val said , by talking volubly to them in the garden about the quietness of the place , giving them each a small , gold , furry apricot from the espaliered trees along the curving brick wall . |
| 13 | Before the school teacher could answer , there was another rap on the door and Beasley scampered in like an overgrown puppy , casting inquisitive glances at Jim Lancaster and the two police officers . |
| 14 | The wind was moving everything along like a nervous policeman . |
| 15 | Now run along like a good girl and do n't be late tomorrow . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Come along like a sensible girl and have a nice cup of coffee in the sitting-room , where we can talk . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ And bouncing along like a rubber ball . ’ |
| 18 | Relentlessly , the amazing force of the tide rolled and twisted his body along like a dead sheep . |
| 19 | Gloria poured her a spoonful from each bottle every day and said that 's why she was tough as old boots , because she always swallowed it down like a good girl . |
| 20 | Of course , after I 'd cut off one bit , my temper cooled down like a hot Poker dipped in a rain barrel . |
| 21 | Otherwise Arthur 'll jump up and down like a demented rabbit . |
| 22 | He could remember that there was an age for puppets and magic , just as he could remember the time that he 'd spent trying to fan a deck of cards or sitting in front of a mirror trying to get the hard consonants down like a real ventriloquist . |
| 23 | This consisted of a strip of patterned cloth with a fringe at each end , a knotted loop in the middle and the two ends hanging down like a modern neck-tie . |
| 24 | He also scared the daylights out of us when he said : ‘ If you put down anything I do n't like , I 'll hunt you down like a shit-house rat ’ . |
| 25 | And there was a third T-shirt , which featured a black bloke clutching a basketball , with his 12-inch , semi-erect dick hanging down like a Nigerian salami . |
| 26 | Inside her , there was a small life forming , something precious and wonderful ; but there was also a deadness in her , weighing her down like a physical burden , a burden that grew harder to bear with every passing day . |
| 27 | Piper wagged his hand up and down like a broken automaton . |
| 28 | The picture flicks down like a faulty framehold , vanishes beneath the rising sill . |
| 29 | Neither had I , but Siegfried prowled up and down like a caged panther as though willing something to happen . |
| 30 | A weeping standard achieves a different form by having not a bush type but a rambler budded into the top of the stem , from where the long flexible rambler stems hang and drape down like a floral curtain . |