Example sentences of "hard as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |
| 2 | The result is that women typically become ‘ equal ’ by having to do more , to stretch themselves to work as hard as a man , even when experiencing bodily processes that a male has never experienced . |
| 3 | Her mother looked at me , her face as still and hard as a life mask . |
| 4 | I 'm about as hard as a tub of lard , tho some people are fooled by my fascist green bomber jacket … |
| 5 | The old coppers who I knew — they used to hit hard enough to stun them , as hard as a butcher hits a cow before he kills it . |
| 6 | No bread was eatable , for it was as cold and hard as a stone . ’ |
| 7 | An orchestral player works as hard as a navvy . |
| 8 | The Leviathan was a ruthless and cruel creature , with ‘ a heart as hard as a millstone ’ , and it destroyed anything which came in its path . |
| 9 | His penis and testicles are as fresh and as hard as a spring bulb . |
| 10 | The fish fought as hard as a 10lb summer pike and I was quite staggered to lift aboard a barracuda of about 2lb . |