Example sentences of "go [adv prt] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other would allow the smart to inherit the Earth ( plus a legacy from their wealthy parents ) and console us with the exhortation to work harder if we want more , which goes down like a glass of sand in the unemployment deserts . |
| 2 | So long as someone knows you 're down there and comes to dig you out , then a basement 's always best , even if the rest goes down like a pack of cards . ’ |
| 3 | With soloist , conductor and orchestra on this kind of form , it is no surprise that the Finale goes off like a rocket . |
| 4 | The phone goes off like an alarm clock at my elbow . |
| 5 | The Tema Russo Finale can hardly be said to go off like a rocket either . |
| 6 | All there was was the voice , going on like a weapon , confusing and tormenting . |
| 7 | Madeleine said she did n't mind , but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil . |
| 8 | And you get silences on the phone and you 're thinking this is going down like a lead balloon . |
| 9 | There was no point in going off like a stone from a catapult . |
| 10 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 11 | He 's , he 's , he 's jump , he , he , he goes up like a jump jet he goes |
| 12 | and goes out like a lamb |
| 13 | I could have returned to Ipswich but I did n't want to go back like a beggar . |
| 14 | Remember what your psalmist says : ‘ The devil goes around like a lion seeking whom he would devour . ’ |
| 15 | Cup of tea would go down like a bomb but |
| 16 | His ‘ zeal for privatisation , ’ says a Welsh nationalist MP hopefully , ‘ will go down like a rat sandwich ’ in the valleys . |
| 17 | Normally following that kind of response the ramp idea would go down like a lead balloon . |
| 18 | ‘ I bet this would go down like a lead balloon if it was known in Grantley police station . |
| 19 | Frederick stepped back , lost his balance , and went down like a tree falling . |
| 20 | But she went down like a sack of spuds and cracked her head open . |
| 21 | The pudding went down like a dream , in blessed silence , and Christopher and Francis disappeared to brew coffee . |
| 22 | The Polish one went down like a battleship , the bow sliding gracefully under and the stern lifting until the stern paddler was up to his waist in water , whence it slowly rolled over . |
| 23 | I took the hot , spicy drink and it went down like a stream of molten lava . |
| 24 | If you are walking in an area where adders are found — dry heath and common land — then as long as you do not go along like a herd of elephants there is a fair chance of coming across one . |
| 25 | ‘ I just go in like a bull at a gate and most of the time it works . |
| 26 | Anyway these questions go down like a lead balloon . |
| 27 | Her words went in like a knife . |
| 28 | Experts said that if the bombs had penetrated any part of the cigar-shaped cylinders they would have gone off like a rocket , smashing into nearby homes . |
| 29 | The service at the crematorium went off like a house on fire and on returning home I received a phone call from Pybus to say that , at a meeting of directors , Carter and Tilley had quit . |
| 30 | Grandad had never been hooked , but on this occasion , he grabbed a Blue Zulu , went off like a rocket and soon broke the cast ; that was about ten years ago : the first and last time anyone came near to catching him . |