Example sentences of "as big [conj] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pun on Spinoza was too good for Coleridge to resist , and the remarkable nose he attributed to Walsh may well have been borrowed from his memories of the innkeeper at the Castle of Comfort , on the road from Stowey to Holford : his nose , which was locally famous , was said to be as big as a fist and ‘ well warted ’ . |
| 2 | She looked as big as a donkey and when the cavernous jaws with the great yellowed teeth brushed my thigh I knew it was time to go . |
| 3 | Standards were high , as it was appreciated from the outset that it was not enough for such workers " to have a heart as big as a football and to be able to fingerspell and sign . " |
| 4 | Yes he Foyly , he 's got a heart as big as a lion and he 'll always do that , Foyly , whether he 's been injured or not , for you , and I 'm pleased he got the goals . |
| 5 | Sometimes as big as a house and containing millions of fish , the mass is near spherical . |
| 6 | The donkey was as big as the ox and its ears were short like a pony 's . |