Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adj] as a [noun] " in BNC.

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1	During the 1660s and 1670s his nursery was the largest in London , and he was famous as a supplier of fruit trees in particular , though he sold ornamental trees and shrubs and seeds as well .
2	He was helpless as a lamb
3	He was influential as a theorist in Britain and America and anticipated , especially in his metalwork , the functional style of the Modern movement .
4	But he was firm as a rock — so firm that she began to suspect that the whole episode was a ruse .
5	He liked producing plays because he enjoyed creative work , and he was good as a leader and director .
6	And he did his own gardening , right up , when he was a hundred , he was fit as a fiddle when he was a hundred , doing his own gardening .
7	Tomorrow is his Feast Day , but little is known about the life of this fourth-century divine ; he was renowned as a preacher and energetic founder of nunneries , and raised the funds to build the basilica in Verona where a statue depicts him holding a fishing-rod .
8	In Windsor he was active as a man of property and left money , with his wife Agatha , to endow a chantry .
9	At his death he was unknown as a poet ; on 8 December 1975 , the centenary of the wreck of the Deutschland , a plaque to his memory was unveiled in poets ' corner , Westminster Abbey , honouring a Roman Catholic there for the first time since John Dryden [ q.v . ] .
10	Oh but he was alright as a pilot .
11	‘ He was hard as a baby , ’ said Rose , confirming this thought .
12	Abruptly , he was motionless as a statue , but still holding her .
13	He was popular as a man of the people who toured Mexico with his wife and 10 children in a mobile home during the presidential campaign , a very different strategy from the typically aloof approach of the PAN 's other wealthy and middle-class leaders .
14	Nannerl said he was handsome as a child , but lost his looks in later life .

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