Example sentences of "come [adv prt] like [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emulating its action against Hirac Inc in the US , Sparc International , the evangelising supporters group for Sun Microsystems Inc 's RISC has come down like a ton of bricks on a small UK start-up trying to carve a living out of the Sparc-compatible space . |
| 2 | Nemesis had still come down like the wolf on the fold . |
| 3 | Frankly , I expected Philippa Lowthorpe 's film about love among the over-65s to come out like a cross between Esther Rantzen at her drippiest and Coronation Street at its dopiest . |
| 4 | Mrs Margaret Johnson , a 32 year old housewife living in Sutton Coldfield , came on like a country western singer . |
| 5 | Then the door behind my head jerked open , the car light came on like a flashbulb , and there was a seven-foot black pimp snarling down at me with a mahogany baseball bat in his fist . |
| 6 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |
| 7 | At least have some wine , to put the colour back in your face ; you came in like a ghost . |
| 8 | You came in like a maniac , moving against the flow of traffic , and you 've taken my place ! ’ |
| 9 | The teacher came in like a colossus and the class shrank into a shivering line . |
| 10 | The pot was poised as a bald-headed bullock of a middle-aged man — face as bright as a carrot from the exertion of the journey — long green cloak askew — fingers coarsely jewelled — came in like the blow of a fist and demanded in dungeon-vowelled Lancashire : |
| 11 | Seemed all right at first , but came up like a balloon over the weekend . ’ |
| 12 | Dawn came up like a warning . |
| 13 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 14 | The dawn came up like a fire behind the white roofs . |
| 15 | Less than an hour later they were back in number twenty-six , and she was so tired that she was past worrying about having to sleep in the same room but , confronted by the reality of the limited space , two small beds and a very large , powerful man , her nervous fears came back like a river in full spate . |
| 16 | Suddenly I just could n't stand it any longer and said I 've GOT to push and she came out like a champagne cork at 8.15 a.m . |
| 17 | His thin upper-arm came out like a stick from the wavy edge of his greyish-purple T-shirt : all skin and bone , no muscle at all . |
| 18 | The fierce note in Rose Hilaire 's voice got through to Dagmar Blond , who stopped talking at once , but the last phrase on her lips came out like a ghost : ‘ seeing yourself kill — ’ The last word of all disappeared . |
| 19 | The jaunty answer came out like a rebuff . |
| 20 | Once she knew the other two women had talked , it came out like a flood . |
| 21 | He came out like a rocket and was up a tree before we had time to say goodbye . ’ |
| 22 | My voice came out like a croak — I was choking with rage . |
| 23 | The word ‘ industrial ’ came out like a swearword . |
| 24 | He 's a man with no taste , still revelling in Jacques Brel , coming on like a shopgirl 's Scott Walker with geek dancing like the adored boy next door . |
| 25 | It 's a bit late to be coming on like the Angel in the House now . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't know you could read , Jess , ’ Miss Phoebe said , coming in like a whisper . |
| 27 | All their backs were coming up like the clappers . |
| 28 | We are on familiar ground , since this idealism is none other than his deeper — sometimes he called it deepest , sometimes highest — realism ; but with new implications in that he is beginning to show a sensitiveness to the actual which no doubt existed before but was rarely evident , a sensitiveness which is now coming out like a bruise . |
| 29 | It may make for some good headlines , but De Niro certainly does n't come on like a tycoon , talking about his company as not so much a business , more an ‘ artistic community ’ where people can freely exchange ideas . |
| 30 | Yet I know that if I were discussing a performance of , say , the ‘ Eroica ’ Symphony , I would come down like a ton of bricks on imprecise ensemble , where others would readily accept the fault if the interpretation was up to it ! |