a box of matches

You see the thing had gone off like a box of matches.

I'm sure it went up like a box of matches.

He was playing with a box of matches he'd found in the house.

Give a child a box of matches, and there will always be some one to show him how to set fire to a house.

They make nuclear energy look like a box of matches.

With a flourish he took out a box of matches.

She'd seen Sophie go into the study with a box of matches, she said, just minutes before they'd left.

His eye caught a box of matches on the desk.

They found a box of matches outside the barn; that was what we heard.

I threw him a cigarette and a box of matches.

Sneaked up behind her and set fire to it with a box of matches.

The old man jerked upright, a box of matches in his hand.

A box of matches to me hand, more like.

She had a box of matches in her hand.

He found his watch and a box of matches.

Garrett reached into his pocket and took out a box of matches.

Moving a step forward, he shifted it, and felt a box of matches under his fingers.

She found a box of matches and lighted the candle.

Oh, and I'll have a box of matches, too, please, love.

He disappears down the hall into the kitchen and returns with a box of matches.

Once there, she turned to face him, grabbed a box of matches and stood as if barring his way.

When everybody was asleep I went to the studio, with a candle and a box of matches.

So was the second, but in the third he found something valuable: a mess tin and a box of matches.

The boy took one and swopped the packet for a box of matches.

The fingerprints were on a table where there was an ashtray with a box of matches.