Example sentences of "as big [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This raises a lump which may become as big as a small orange . |
| 2 | All of this means that in the past year Schnabel has applied paint and might one hope quality thought time ? to an area as big as a standard tennis court with 400 square feet left over . |
| 3 | As big as a big cockerel ai n't they ? |
| 4 | In his bedroom Raymond is torturing his electric guitar , which is plugged into an amplifier as big as an upended coffin , grinning fiendishly as he produces howls and wails of feedback . |
| 5 | In Brobdingnag there are large numbers of flies in summer , and these awful insects , each as big as an English bird , gave me no peace . |
| 6 | Colonel Stok was as big as an old oak wardrobe . |