Example sentences of "as [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bishop of Greathaven was as stately as a ship heaving landward . |
| 2 | I 've only been in your bed with you once and then you were as jumpy as a cat thinking that sister of yours might come back unexpectedly . |
| 3 | Obviously , to take this to the end of the line is impossible and as pointless as a dog chasing its tail . |
| 4 | Each child born in the industrialised world consumes between 20 and 40 times as much as a child living in one of the poorer countries . |
| 5 | Hurrying back to the site , she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date . |
| 6 | The trouble was that it seemed as likely as a lion apologising to a gazelle . |
| 7 | She was as tense as a cat stalking a bird . |
| 8 | I emphasize this to make clear that what happened the following weekend was as unforeseeable as a plane falling on your house . |
| 9 | When the corpse floated past , it was as unremarkable as a branch drifting in the water , and once we had passed it , it stayed bobbing in the water as if tied to our stern . |
| 10 | He looks as innocent as a lamb standing before me . |
| 11 | Sarah stayed outside a few minutes longer , her spirits lifting wondrously , and she felt as happy as a robin singing among the branches of the oak tree . |
| 12 | More important is the fact that nobody can really tell whether Germany has a successful economy because of its voting system ( though , between you and me , this seems as unlikely as a cart pulling a horse ) or whether it seems to have satisfactory constitutional arrangements because its economy has been working so well for so long . |
| 13 | All in all , Bobby Robson must have found it about as fruitful as a day trying to get in touch with Brian Clough . |
| 14 | It was not surprising that Benny had been as excited as a hen walking on hot coals all summer long , never able to keep still , always jumping up with some further excitement . |
| 15 | as weightless as a soul making |
| 16 | And what a despicable set of values — rendered all the more offensive by the revelations from Wall Street , London , Tokyo and Dublin , that the mandarins , gurus and executors of capitalism are as trustworthy as a fox guarding a chicken coop . |