Example sentences of "big as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not big as a bear , big as a cat . |
| 2 | day we had a cat in our garden and er my dog is n't as big as a cat . |
| 3 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 4 | He started to smoke incessantly , carrying around a cigarette box as big as a biscuit tin . |
| 5 | ‘ One of them 's near as big as a hangar . ’ |
| 6 | Marc presided behind a desk as big as a tennis court . |
| 7 | As big as a tennis court ? |
| 8 | Pepsis , a giant among wasps with a six-inch wingspan , lives in South America and grapples with bird-eating spiders as big as a man 's hand . |
| 9 | His Partagas perfecto was champed between his inner tube lips , a diamond as big as a buttercup sparkled on the starched front of his dress shirt , a long white silk scarf was casually looped around his lack of a neck . |
| 10 | Next a light appeared , and a moment later a shape swept out of the night , big as a centaur , its blinding eye striking him along with something solid . |
| 11 | If the water is frozen , and shifts as a glacier , then it can carry entire boulders , as big a h or as big as a hotel , hundreds of miles , and gouge great scars . |
| 12 | The nutmeg , complete with its edible rind , is almost as big as a hen 's egg , with a diameter of about two inches . |
| 13 | Turning a corner along a narrow track , I came face to face with a blustering capercaillie , as big as a turkey . |
| 14 | Not quite as big as a CD . |
| 15 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 16 | The pun on Spinoza was too good for Coleridge to resist , and the remarkable nose he attributed to Walsh may well have been borrowed from his memories of the innkeeper at the Castle of Comfort , on the road from Stowey to Holford : his nose , which was locally famous , was said to be as big as a fist and ‘ well warted ’ . |
| 17 | It is about as big as a fist , and bound securely with black gaffer tape . |
| 18 | She looked as big as a donkey and when the cavernous jaws with the great yellowed teeth brushed my thigh I knew it was time to go . |
| 19 | That island 's as big as a forceball pitch . ’ |
| 20 | It was getting to be as big as a cathedral . |
| 21 | As big as a cathedral it stood , in red Midland brick and warm Oxford limestone , with the noon sun full upon it . |
| 22 | " The slice of bread should be as big as a dessert plate and nearly 1 inch thick . |
| 23 | Someone tapped her on the shoulder then placed a mug as big as a chamber pot beside her . |
| 24 | It had more of the great blocky writing , some of the letters nearly as big as a nome 's head . |
| 25 | It was as big as a settee but it was dead quiet . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | He deserves a medal as big as a frying pan . ’ |
| 28 | yellow , as big as a handkerchief — |
| 29 | The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked , black peat , where water lay and sharp , white stones , some as big as a pigeon 's , some as a rabbit 's skull , glimmered in the moonlight . |
| 30 | Looking over the heads of the children at the end of this tale , I saw slowly coming towards us , a large brown spiky thing as big as a room , with a dozen legs walking slowly and carefully under it . |