Example sentences of "[adv prt] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just now the autumnal coolth was tonic and he breathed it in like drinking draughts of fresh milk , then took dippersful of water from the butt at the side of the house and sluiced his head into activity . |
| 2 | I charged in like a bull . |
| 3 | It 's not fair to keep him in like that . |
| 4 | But I was determined not to allow myself to be hauled in like a helpless fish as he reeled in his capable line . |
| 5 | For my father 's part , he accepted Jane 's presence without question ; and she had consideration for his duodenal ulcer , and looked up to him as head of the household , and fitted in like the rest of us . |
| 6 | Then the Birmingham Small Arms Company revealed after many a summer that the car she sat in like a burnished throne , and even some of the furs she wore , were not provided by her Prince Charming , Sir Bernard , but by them , the nuts and bolts firm of which he was chairman , as a business expense which they were no longer happy to provide . |
| 7 | The infamous Clause 28 , forbidding teachers to ‘ promote ’ homosexuality , tends to be supported by those who believe there is such a thing as classical sex — one proper , heterosexual way of doing it , which should be drummed in like a correct French accent . |
| 8 | On The Woman I Am , Chaka takes control again and , while the arrangements struggle to fill every available space with drum patterns and horn fills , she keeps swooping in like a dive-bombing seagull and forcing songs and producers into submission . |
| 9 | That is nipples which are turned in like a crater , or which do not stick up by at least half a centimetre when gently pinched between thumb and forefinger from just beyond the base . |
| 10 | She had enticed them in like an old witch , Val said , by talking volubly to them in the garden about the quietness of the place , giving them each a small , gold , furry apricot from the espaliered trees along the curving brick wall . |
| 11 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 12 | If he 'd had a nice meal by the fire and the box to watch and no screaming and yelling he 'd have stayed in like Hoomey . |
| 13 | This shoaling in like sizes is established at a very early age , and there is good reason for it . |
| 14 | Surely one did not spend one 's time locked in like a criminal . |
| 15 | A. M. We fell in like soldiers in a square . |
| 16 | Some said his wife did n't turn a hair any more when Sammy was carried in like a drowned rat . |
| 17 | I knew too that if Jerry had ever behaved as I did , taking on more than he could chew , then I too would have responded in like manner . |
| 18 | We 're packing them in like sardines . |
| 19 | I 've got meself a position , living in like you do . ’ |
| 20 | Acquittals on both occasions added to his screen reputation as a charming rogue and the phrase ‘ in like Flynn ’ became popular among servicemen boasting of the pleasure they had had and given in their latest sexual conquests . |
| 21 | He walked in like a culprit . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't know you could read , Jess , ’ Miss Phoebe said , coming in like a whisper . |
| 23 | March comes in like a lion |
| 24 | ‘ I just go in like a bull at a gate and most of the time it works . |
| 25 | ‘ Have to muck in like the rest of us . ’ |
| 26 | He 's in like a breeze . |
| 27 | Her words went in like a knife . |
| 28 | Trimming costs even further is easy if you 're willing to pack yourselves in like sardines as the French normally do . |
| 29 | None would suspect if she and I changed places , as it were — she wearing my apparel and having her hair dressed in like manner . ’ |
| 30 | At least have some wine , to put the colour back in your face ; you came in like a ghost . |