Example sentences of "[verb] as [adj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The vicar who seemed as poor as a church mouse gave no clue to his wealth as he chatted happily to convicted robbers . |
| 32 | She tried to lift her hand , but the knife now seemed as heavy as a sword . |
| 33 | The trouble was that it seemed as likely as a lion apologising to a gazelle . |
| 34 | Instead , the best accounts of the ‘ causes ’ of language are social and psychological , where language is seen as occurring as a result of interactions between people and their environments . |
| 35 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 36 | Virgin hopes a day in the cockpit will become as popular as a day at the races for company gatherings . |
| 37 | We arrived as keen as a couple of puppies out for their first walkies , full of fun and raring to go ! |
| 38 | Benjamin turned as quick as a top , his eyes sharp and questioning . |
| 39 | He told Richardson that a Dutch gentleman had given him Frageria chiloensis , a native strawberry from the Spanish West Indies , but although Miller had not yet seen the fruit he quoted A. F. Frézier who ‘ in his Voyages says it grows as big as a pullet 's egg … a great rarity ’ . |
| 40 | She , with her wide hips , dirty grey hair and face as wrinkled as a pig 's ear , looked as blowsy as any harridan from hell . |
| 41 | The pot was poised as a bald-headed bullock of a middle-aged man — face as bright as a carrot from the exertion of the journey — long green cloak askew — fingers coarsely jewelled — came in like the blow of a fist and demanded in dungeon-vowelled Lancashire : |
| 42 | Now , the elderly man who endured a waiter 's dirty fingers in his lemonade at Montrose could hardly have been more famous or respected , and there he sits in a dirty inn , happy to enjoy a little quiet , and quite at ease to do so , even in the company of one of the most garrulous men in the realm whose nature abhorred a conversational vacuum ; Johnson even expressed a simple delight in being thought as silent as a ghost . |
| 43 | My mind raced as nimble as a flea in air . |
| 44 | ‘ That wonderful royal blue — it emphasises the brilliant blue of your eyes , and you look as slim as a needle . |
| 45 | ‘ Roger , ’ he quipped , ‘ you look as frightened as a gargoyle ! |
| 46 | ‘ You look as white as a sheet . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ You look as white as a ghost , Ginny , darling . ’ |
| 48 | The distant ‘ woof of a dog or screech of a car engine would sound as intense as a Rachmaninoff concerto in a concert hall . |
| 49 | Without ever themselves having had as much as a picture postcard to sell , they feel entitled to criticise both the dead peer and his widow for having disposed of some of the contents of Althorp . |
| 50 | Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , as we know from his rages at players who 've had as much as a sniff of the barmaid 's apron , is the man who put the temper in temperance . |
| 51 | I bet you get as fat as a pig ! |
| 52 | ‘ If it was n't for that poor bugger , I would be getting as pissed as a bishop 's fart in the Crossed Keys and you would be back in your decrepit church feeding that bloody cat or watching your bloody stars ! |
| 53 | Suddenly flying as high as a kite , she could n't resist the tiny gibe . |
| 54 | I knock at the wood-plank door and it sounds as empty as a politician 's promise . |
| 55 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 56 | You may remember that Samson was a man of enormous strength and then , following a liaison with Delila and her cutting off his hair , he was reported to have become as weak as a child — and yet there was an occasion , which led to his death , when he brought the whole temple down by pulling the pillars against which he was propped . |
| 57 | The bird 's flapping became as frantic as a wind-up toy 's for a few seconds , but this quickly petered out and its body became limp . |
| 58 | Steel threaded through her muscles , and her senses became as sharp as a cat 's . |
| 59 | Anyway , I became as drunk as a vicar . |
| 60 | Genette 's discussion of Proust is so far reaching that his book can be regarded as much as a reading of A la recherche as a contribution to narrative theory , and to this extent it represents a challenge to the generic distinctions normally made in structuralist thinking between poetics and criticism . |