Example sentences of "[verb] as [adj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rives had everything , including immense strength , whereas Jones is hugely athletic and can jump as high as a guy six inches taller than himself . |
| 2 | Yet , as she watched him , perched as lithe as a cat on the prow , leaning back out over the waves to balance the little craft , his splendid chest scattered with little beads of water , Ronni was aware that she did n't really mean it . |
| 3 | And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction . |
| 4 | People who are basically unhealthy may have their pheromones soured by an imbalance of bacteria on the skin , and generally not smell as attractive as a person in the peak of fitness . |
| 5 | Plus they rely far too heavily on Chad Gracey 's bionic drumming to get them noticed , the tinny snare effect soon becoming as annoying as a catfight underneath your window at 3.00am . |
| 6 | And , after being out in the sunshine with the children most of the day , she 'd lost her pale , city complexion , becoming as brown as a berry and looking much younger . |
| 7 | For this month 's design , as with all projects where the solution has n't come as quick as a flash of inspiration , I assembled in front of me everything that I had found interesting or been working on over the past few months . |
| 8 | ‘ A horse and a cart that stands as high as a house and cost the best part of thirty pounds and you lost them both ? ’ |
| 9 | Estimates ranged as high as a couple of hundred units having been sold in Japan . |
| 10 | There is no attempt to weight the votes — a vote on whether the marigold should be the national flower counts as much as a vote on an arms limitation treaty . |
| 11 | It cost an arm and a leg — it 's an ordinary navy coat to me , and it cost as much as a fur . ’ |
| 12 | Standing beside the water tank , on top of the caravan 's portable step , Pa looks as tall as a Zulu in his red stole ( brown , for me ) with the black umbrella held over his head at full stretch by Ma who is standing behind in the mud and wet with a white towel draped over her arm and her hair flat and all dark with water . |
| 13 | But Paula , dressed in light grey leggings , sweatshirt and a blue denim jacket , looks as cool as a cucumber . |
| 14 | He looks as innocent as a lamb standing before me . |
| 15 | Speaking of spankers , what do you think a woman feels like who 's been born stumpy and fat and who looks as plain as a pikestaff , like that little one we bumped into back there . |
| 16 | At the end of the avenue , the village of Cawdor looks as kempt as a pinafore . |
| 17 | Perceptions may change — her body can feel as vast as a mountain , and her own breathing be heard as an urgent sound coming from a different person . |
| 18 | Whichever room you choose , you can make it feel as fresh as a coat of fresh paint — with a coat of paint . |
| 19 | Our minds ca n't imagine a time span as short as a picosecond , but we can do calculations about picoseconds , and we can build computers that can complete calculations within picoseconds . |
| 20 | I mean certainly you ca n't achieve as much as a man does , but also the jobs just are n't there any more , not so much , and the main change I 'd like to see in education is that it would help girls cope with this dilemma . |
| 21 | And then there were the free pop concerts which attracted as many as a quarter of a million hippies . |
| 22 | There was Mrs Moore , the dentist 's wife , mother of his friend who had committed suicide because life did not seem worth living ; and there was Mary Johnson 's mother looking as prim as a prune , not knowing that her daughter was no better than a streetwalker . |
| 23 | He came back an hour later , looking as smug as a cat who 'd stolen the cream . |
| 24 | Rachel Santerre stood there , looking as beautiful as a summer 's dawn though her face was pale with dark rings round the eyes . |
| 25 | and he used to come home looking as white as a sheet sick to the teeth and he used to just go to bed and collapse in a heap , he is n't strong enough to do it and it 's pointless for him to try but other than that he can do anything he fancies . |
| 26 | The Treasurer is looking as sick as a parrot ! |
| 27 | I am understudying George Birkitt , who , when I last saw him , was looking as fit as a flea . ’ |
| 28 | Hurrying back to the site , she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date . |
| 29 | She took it all in good humour , though Stuart seemed as twitchy as a rabbit 's septum . |
| 30 | He seemed as tall as a mountain , and every one of his steps measured about ten metres . |