Example sentences of "large as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please could you let us have two copies of a map on as large as scale as possible . |
| 2 | There were the words , as large as life and often twice as sane . |
| 3 | Hazlitt : large as life , twice as saneENGRAVING : THOMAS BEWICK |
| 4 | Sir Christopher Wren sits behind his desk , large as life and at least as natural , until a cloth is draped over the leather bound book concealing the projector , and his head is revealed as a white splodge which takes 80 hours of modelling . |
| 5 | Large as life and twice as natural . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Hello , duckie , so here we are large as life and twice as handsome . |
| 7 | Yet here they were , as large as life — Surkov with his long yellow hair and Rozanov with his attenuated face and his baldness — clearly the living people with whom I had boozed and improvised in Moscow , so long ago . |
| 8 | Oh , Lee , you 're as large as life . |
| 9 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 10 | No , there it was , as large as life in capital letters : To MR LUDOVIC KENNEDY , BBC TELEVISION STUDIOS . |
| 11 | Jack Hayden obviously has a very close affinity with William Terris ' ghost because when he made a purposeful visit to Covent Garden Station recently he saw him ‘ as large as life ’ , as if waiting to welcome him back . |
| 12 | As large as life and death , both funny and sad — and not a little dangerous . |
| 13 | His range of interests is as large as life : births , marriages , deaths , quarrels , reconciliations , rhetoric , religion , cultivation , animal husbandry , home-crafts , politics — all claim his attention and are ( or should be ) faithfully reported — warts and all . |
| 14 | Pupils ' paper art show is large as life |
| 15 | I looked up — he was standing nearby , large as life . |
| 16 | He had been standing large as life beside Lady Usk , and it was plain that he knew her identity . |
| 17 | as large as life . |
| 18 | Andrew come , just come out as large as life . |
| 19 | The relatively peaceful and well-governed " home counties " of the Duke of Aquitaine , from Poitiers westwards to the sea at Talmont , then down the coast to Bordeaux and up the valley of the Garonne as far as Agen , comprised an area as large as midland and southeastern England and included some of the most prosperous and commercially developed parts of the whole duchy . |
| 20 | Read up on pond building and filtration ( try The Practical Encyclopaedia of Koi Salamander £19.95 ) , then I suggest , build an in-ground , gravity-fed system — as large as space permits . |
| 21 | And he 's certainly big enough to draw his own crowd , just as large as Madness . |
| 22 | The scales across Fenna 's shoulders and haunches were as large as dinner plates , and thick , heavy and dry — they changed colour in different lights , from dull pewter through to a dark red , the colour of dried blood , or the murky green of the lower waters of the Amazon River . |
| 23 | He had already crossed the whole length Of the hall and was pressed close to two rabbits , a buck and doe , each of whom was fully as large as Cowslip . |
| 24 | Some of these gems were as large as goose eggs but the most precious was an exquisite diamond called the Regal of France . |