Example sentences of "[adv prt] like a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd shifted a lot of linen , some bags of which weighed in like a circus fat lady . |
| 2 | big like gun in like a staple thing it was , but it was a la , it was an extended one , fitted inside this rubber hose and then , clamp it and they only have a little bit of stomach left so they ca n't eat proper meals |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That dratted child never seemed to hurry , but slipped along like a cloud shadow , faster than you 'd expect . |
| 5 | Benjamin shouted at Santerre and Mandeville to follow the sheriff , whilst he and I raced after Southgate , now being dragged along like a rag doll . |
| 6 | As we parted , we could hear our man force-feeding his companions their scotch eggs , hurrying them along like a rowing cox . |
| 7 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The concussion of the exploding wave drove me down like a steam hammer . |
| 10 | She levered his arm up and down like a pump handle , then turning to the card players said : ‘ Bob , Joe , Mr Loveitt , Dr Plumb , ladies … you know Mr Godschalk from Bretyard and Pope Insurance Office . ’ |
| 11 | The client who was not convinced and pacified by what his dealer said would not only refuse to trade further with him , but would not sleep easy at night , tormented by the thoughts of his investments tossing up and down like a rowing boat in a stormy sea . |
| 12 | He — he — ’ Her voice ran down like a phonograph record . |
| 13 | His ‘ zeal for privatisation , ’ says a Welsh nationalist MP hopefully , ‘ will go down like a rat sandwich ’ in the valleys . |
| 14 | Normally following that kind of response the ramp idea would go down like a lead balloon . |
| 15 | ‘ I bet this would go down like a lead balloon if it was known in Grantley police station . |
| 16 | Anyway these questions go down like a lead balloon . |
| 17 | And you get silences on the phone and you 're thinking this is going down like a lead balloon . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Pink all over like an apple tree in May ! |
| 20 | Alexia brought him his headset , which he slipped on like a minimalist space helmet . |
| 21 | Ronni felt something inside her switch on like a light bulb . |
| 22 | When I first went in , I was on like an assessment unit . |
| 23 | However , after many experiences and two marriages , the character still comes on like an idiot boy during the second meeting with Dunaway in a brothel , making Benjamin Braddock seem like Don Juan by contrast . |
| 24 | Here you are er make a copy Er when you 're ready when you 've worked out all the answers one person in the group should copy out the questions on like an exam sheet . |
| 25 | He gives a performance by combining his mannerisms , including a smile turned tentatively on and off like a light bulb and the stooped strut of an over-age Holden Caulfield . |
| 26 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |
| 27 | The phone goes off like an alarm clock at my elbow . |
| 28 | As a result he is bloated up like a space hopper and just rolls round the pitch with a dopey grin on his face . |
| 29 | Crash goes his belly and his arms flap up like a corkscrew lever . |
| 30 | He 's , he 's , he 's jump , he , he , he goes up like a jump jet he goes |