Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From all this you will have gathered I am not a ‘ Money Making Knitter ’ , but I enjoy my machine as much as the family do their video and motor sport and it does not cost any more ! |
| 2 | Knowing it was all a pointless farce sapped my morale as much as the rigorous regime did my physique . |
| 3 | Well , the point was as I recollect it , er that my understanding as far as the County Council 's case was concerned , was that er the village was not inset for E Ten purposes , it was inset to recognize what the County perceived as the physical reality of this being a substantial built-up area which fulfilled no greenbelt functions . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'll have to eat together , ’ I said in a doleful tone which I knew would upset my mother as much as the vision which my remark would conjure up . |
| 5 | And later , falling finally into sleep with her heart as cold as a snowball in her chest , she thought : at least there is Wednesday . |
| 6 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 7 | Elinor , now asleep in the bedroom , her square jaw up like a tombstone , her mouth as wide as a new grave , her light snore ticking fitfully , like some tired machine . |
| 8 | She keeps their home as clean as a refrigerator and about as warm . |
| 9 | He accepted Toby 's outstretched hand , its appearance as limp as a flipper , only to find that the grasp was strong and confident . |
| 10 | She froze , unable to move suddenly , her body as rigid as the pretty statuette she clung to . |
| 11 | The dons resented their punishment as much as the doctors — but neither can fairly be described as radical on that account . |
| 12 | But she interrupted him softly , her words gentle and her spirit as powerful as the strongest wind . |
| 13 | She lifted the heavy latch-like fastening of the oven door and took one tiny , golden scone from a shelf-full before she shut the door again , her hand as quiet as a cat 's footfall . |
| 14 | Harriet , fair-plaited , a tea-towel round her middle , another round her front as wide as the nuns still wore their dicky fronts at school . |
| 15 | Whatever we may think of the future , we think of the past as having been in its time as determinate as the present now is . |
| 16 | An old woman appeared , in black , a black grey with age , her face as lined as an Indian squaw 's . |
| 17 | His patient , a girl whose age was uncertain — he judged her to be about fourteen or fifteen — was at the moment quiescent , her face as grey as the linen on which she lay , her eyes closed . |
| 18 | It was the implications of his presence as much as the sight of him that heated her skin and caused her heart to thunder as her mind leapt treacherously forward to the night that lay ahead of them . |
| 19 | His blond stubble was silky and made his mouth as exciting as an adolescent boy 's . |
| 20 | His rich guest merely made a sound , unable clearly to articulate a word with his mouth as wadded as a feather pillow . |
| 21 | He had become too cloying in his affections , his talk as saccharine as the dialogue from the Christmas classics on the television , his every gaze mawkish . |
| 22 | Everything that he 'd had in mind to say to her was suddenly gone from his head , his mind as blank as a new wall and his belly full of sudden , inexplicable dread . |
| 23 | Sister Martha 's father was a butcher in Fecamp years ago , his overall as blue as the habit she wears now . |
| 24 | And Daine 's neural dysfunctions have shaped his Dream as much as the externals he took from his old vids . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ No … speech ? ’ he queried , his body as taut as a bowstring . |
| 26 | A voice for moderation and good order — like many others — but his head as bare as the rest when the bricks started to fly , his body as vulnerable to sabre cuts as his father 's , his countenance indistinguishable to those young and possibly nervous soldiers from the real " physical force " brigade they were supposed to be looking for , who had raised everybody 's temperatures by ambushing and stoning a military escort at Salterhebble . |
| 27 | With a brief , mocking smile , he turned away and hurried up the steps to the hotel lobby , his back as hostile as a roll of barbed wire . |
| 28 | never , get to his singing as early as the blackbirds , the |
| 29 | One detective said : ‘ It is not an exaggeration to assume that during his career as many as a hundred women could have been abused by him using his evil methods . |
| 30 | ‘ I will ask you once more for my brother-in-law 's address , ’ he said , his voice as cold as the Arctic snows . |