Example sentences of "on like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I scattered pennies and rode on like a young lord through Aldgate and into London . |
| 2 | I suppose that the ‘ great bloke ’ who lives next door … the dearest friend … is used to all that … hands you on like a bloody parcel at the end of the evening . ’ |
| 3 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 4 | Life here plays on like a distant , steady backbeat to the often hollow din of modern America caught in the rituals of an election year . |
| 5 | The burglar alarm shrilled on like a Sunday-afternoon drunk in the park . |
| 6 | His reappearance in 2010 decisively resolves this , at the cost of making him come on like a Californian religious freak about ‘ something wonderful ’ . |
| 7 | When the time of Hasan 's Occultation came , they would , presumably , be swarming up the drainpipes waving scimitars and carrying on like a thwarted group of reporters from the Sun . |
| 8 | He has a gravitas that has not just been put on like a flashy waistcoat , nor indeed a Garrick Club tie . |
| 9 | Her mouth twisted wryly ; at twenty-four she should have put all that aside , but it lingered on like a bitter legacy . |
| 10 | He comes on like a Greek god and claims credit for fixing the weather . |
| 11 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
| 12 | Well why 's he got on like a big thing round his neck , a ruff . |