Example sentences of "down like a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The concussion of the exploding wave drove me down like a steam hammer . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He — he — ’ Her voice ran down like a phonograph record . |
| 7 | His ‘ zeal for privatisation , ’ says a Welsh nationalist MP hopefully , ‘ will go down like a rat sandwich ’ in the valleys . |
| 8 | Normally following that kind of response the ramp idea would go down like a lead balloon . |
| 9 | ‘ I bet this would go down like a lead balloon if it was known in Grantley police station . |
| 10 | Anyway these questions go down like a lead balloon . |
| 11 | And you get silences on the phone and you 're thinking this is going down like a lead balloon . |
| 12 | 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 . |