Example sentences of "[adv] tall as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinctively the two men were looking for faces that they knew — Mary McCulloch and her friends , big Mary as tall as a man , red-haired Flora . |
| 2 | When a butt is ½ as tall as a whole butt |
| 3 | For one inclusive price you can enjoy the thrills of the Astroglide ( a six-lane slide that 's as tall as a house ) , roller-coaster , Western train ride , adventure play area plus roundabouts specially for the very young . |
| 4 | Three metres long and heavy , almost as tall as a horse , it had a menacing array of sharp teeth . |
| 5 | T. Rex was a terrible-looking carnivore , some 15 metres long and 5 metres high , as tall as a giraffe and weighing over 8 tons fully grown . |
| 6 | as tall as a palm tree and perfectly black [ with ] one eye which flamed like a burning coal in the middle of his forehead . |
| 7 | Sharpe angled away from the river , guiding the horse beside a field of rye which had grown as tall as a man.The field path led uphill , then , after picking a delicate path through a tangled copse where tree roots gave treacherous footing for the horse , Sharpe slid down an earthen bank on to a rutted road where he was shadowed and hidden from the Dragoons by the trees that arched overhead . |
| 8 | They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man . |
| 9 | A termite fortress , walled , buttressed and castellated , may contain ten tons of mud and stand three or four times as tall as a man . |
| 10 | Something as tall as a steeple , in a trailing black dress , fair hair cascading ; a face turned , looking down at Ruth , with long mocking green eyes that glimmered like the sea . |
| 11 | The engine rooms lay astern and in the bows , beneath awnings , were wheels as tall as a man . |
| 12 | ‘ I shall be as tall as a house in a minute , ’ she said . |
| 13 | ‘ One minute I 'm very small , the next minute I 'm as tall as a house , then I 'm small again . |
| 14 | He seemed as tall as a mountain , and every one of his steps measured about ten metres . |
| 15 | A pile of wooden boxes as tall as a man stood on the quay . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | An outcrop of white rock from the steep hillside seemed to the children as tall as a cliff . |
| 18 | If madame was like her son then she would be as tall as a tree . |