Example sentences of "down like a [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 | For a while the man stood muttering and cursing as he clanked his heavy ring of keys , but at last he found the right one and they stepped on to the moonlit track which ran down like a strip of silver through the overhanging trees . |
| 3 | But it can equally be an ‘ invisible elbow ’ which brings the earth 's precarious ecological balance crashing down like a pile of cans in a supermarket . |
| 4 | But she went down like a sack of spuds and cracked her head open . |
| 5 | ‘ Take off your nightshirt and come down like a man ! ’ — a catcall from the body of the crowd . |
| 6 | Pike was on the other , jumping up and down like a man with a swarm of bees in his underpants . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Frederick stepped back , lost his balance , and went down like a tree falling . |
| 9 | ‘ And I do n't see , ’ continued Betty , ‘ why you had to say Elizabeth was going up and down like a whore 's drawers when she was only moving things off the table . ’ |
| 10 | So if you ca n't be more positive — ’ she folded her napkin and threw it down like a gauntlet on the table between them ‘ — then I do n't see why I should stay here and listen to you . ’ |
| 11 | Alex brought it down like a guillotine for its utter cold meant no feeling , when feeling meant only pain . |
| 12 | Madeleine said she did n't mind , but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The pudding went down like a dream , in blessed silence , and Christopher and Francis disappeared to brew coffee . |
| 15 | ‘ Are you thinking of going all the way to Morocco ? ’ he asked , with his even white teeth shining as he smiled and dived down like a dolphin around her . |
| 16 | The brittle autumn leaves , shaken by the rush of air , flurried down like a shower of charred paper over the roof and the bright green of the grass . |
| 17 | The concussion of the exploding wave drove me down like a steam hammer . |
| 18 | Er , a couple of days later , it just split down like a banana , and |
| 19 | Ingram looked doubtfully at the long table , rocking up and down like a lugger in a gale . |
| 20 | Too busy jumping up and down like a lunatic ( along with the rest of most of the crowd ) . |
| 21 | It turned right over backwards , spun briefly upside down like a top , then , still upside down , skidded into the back of the now stationary lorry . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His cloak hung down like a curtain , and I could see streetlamps through the bullet holes in it . |
| 25 | 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 ! |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The wave has no difficulty in going through both slits and provides a " choppy sea " on which the particle bobs up and down like a cork . |
| 28 | A fair swell was running , and the boat bobbed up and down like a cork on the surface . |
| 29 | I took the hot , spicy drink and it went down like a stream of molten lava . |
| 30 | Below the chin is a pouch that hangs down like a dewlap . |