Example sentences of "[conj] as [adj] [conj] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canetti is not , I think , earnestly recording his life ; his passion is really for the others he writes about , be they as famous as Brecht or as obscure as his landlady . |
| 2 | It was hard to tell if he was more discomforted at being accused of being as lecherous or as old as his father-in-law . |
| 3 | Ryan had been as warm and as welcoming as his father . |
| 4 | His writing is larger than mine , I note , and as fine as his hair . |
| 5 | Thomas Sachs was as good and as generous as his word . |
| 6 | It was about a metre long and as thick as his wrist . |
| 7 | His Gluck Iphigenie this summer , first of a planned Drottningholm cycle , was self-consciously unobtrusive , almost rough in its stage manners — and as unexciting as his Don Giovanni from the same stable seen in Brighton . |