Example sentences of "she be as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw her an hour since and she were as right as a bobbin . " |
| 2 | She 's as weak as a kitten . |
| 3 | She 's as poor as a church mouse , that 's why she has to come to Arthur and Margot 's in the holidays . ’ |
| 4 | She 's as strong as a horse . |
| 5 | She 's as sweet as the heather in the dell , |
| 6 | She 's as sweet as the heather , the bonnie bloomin' heather , |
| 7 | She 's as slow as a broken down snail . |
| 8 | Today she 's as fit as a fiddle — thanks to research funded by efforts such as Beefy 's . |
| 9 | Well she 's as pale as a perivale ghost . |
| 10 | She is as gentle as a lamb and while most people are cautious when meeting her , they soon think she 's wonderful . |
| 11 | She is as careful as a chemist with her reproaches . |
| 12 | She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man . |
| 13 | And now she was as strong as a cart horse , and he did n't give a damn . |
| 14 | She was as strong as a little horse . |
| 15 | She was as innocent as the sleeping birds in the trees , or the small field animals in the hedges . |
| 16 | She was as reckless as the DK , but Bernice suspected that until recently she 'd been more cautious . |
| 17 | But , she was as nervous as a kitten because we were , we were in a one of these Canadian type er |
| 18 | ‘ She was as straight as a die and a pillar of the community . |
| 19 | People said that she was as wild as the Moor itself and just as changeable . |
| 20 | When Aunt Tossie gave , or spent , she was as exuberant as a child , tossing a ball into the air . |
| 21 | In fact she was as quiet as a mouse and Ruth hardly knew she was there . |
| 22 | As soon as she was in the sack , she was as quiet as a lamb . |
| 23 | Wearing Havvie 's ring , a diamond heirloom given to all Blaine brides , laughing , talking and playing with him as the London season began , Sally-Anne persuaded herself that she was as happy as a girl could be , Terry Rourke 's betrayal wiped out and forgotten . |
| 24 | She was as bright as a button . |
| 25 | When she was examined , she did indeed have a nasty attack of herpes , but the doctor who looked at her noticed that she was as brown as a berry . |
| 26 | I do not know whether we dragons loved her or hated her ; her will was like iron , as fast clad as our scaled hides , but her heart was like a songbird in the morning and she was as lovely as the lilies of the field . |
| 27 | Claudia could never believe she was as lovely as the girl in the picture whose cloud of shining golden-brown hair flowed over the translucent skin of her shoulders like a caress . |
| 28 | She was as fearless as the Wooldridge boys who involved her in all their mischief , but sometimes Anna would stand and stare , as if she was seeing things that others could n't see . |
| 29 | She was as tense as a cat stalking a bird . |
| 30 | She was as white as a ghost , and her eyes were shadowed as if she had n't slept properly for weeks . |