Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's even better money than you could earn in high season , so it is , but of course your father is n't Sir Thomas Bloody Breakspear and as rich as a pig in shit , so you need the money , while his Holiness here does n't . |
| 2 | Ruth was as agile as a dolphin in the water and she was away from him before he had a chance to stop her . |
| 3 | It 's as lazy as a cat in hot weather , with the lyric amounting to a mere two verses before the vocals just sit down to let the languid groove take over . |
| 4 | Standing beside the water tank , on top of the caravan 's portable step , Pa looks as tall as a Zulu in his red stole ( brown , for me ) with the black umbrella held over his head at full stretch by Ma who is standing behind in the mud and wet with a white towel draped over her arm and her hair flat and all dark with water . |
| 5 | ‘ I shall be as tall as a house in a minute , ’ she said . |
| 6 | For a specimen of Muscovite of this shape Orowan found that the tensile strength was about 460,000 p.s.i. , that is to say nearly twenty times as strong as a specimen in which the cracks did not have to cross the planes of weakness . |
| 7 | Always an example of devotion to duty , and as unflinching as a hero in a book . |
| 8 | ‘ Martin Fierro 's aim in life was to sleep on a bed of clover , look up at the stars , and live as free as a bird in the sky . |
| 9 | ‘ Just hanging there from one of the beams , swaying as free as a leaf in the wind . |
| 10 | Conversation at table is as superfluous as a sermon in church ; all is still but for the ping of the latest microwave masterpiece . |
| 11 | His voice quiet but as winding as a blow in the solar plexus , he invited , ‘ Tell me more about your mother , Luce . ’ |
| 12 | They carted him like a scarecrow , his heels scoring the gravel , but he was as stubborn as a pig in a cart , he would never squeal without a hard prod ; Donald Stewart the blacksmith had to grip his wrist to make him sign the paper . |
| 13 | This room is as cold as a cabin in the frozen woods , but it is not so cold as the heart of the person to whom I gave my love , my hope , my talent . |
| 14 | And later , falling finally into sleep with her heart as cold as a snowball in her chest , she thought : at least there is Wednesday . |
| 15 | ‘ Lieutenant Webster , ’ the Duke 's voice was as cold as a sword in winter , ‘ four horses instantly to the Prince of Orange 's carriage . |
| 16 | This is amply illustrated by Table 11.1 , which shows the basic statistics for each station , including the 30-second average cost per thousand for 1991 , which suggests that a customer in London is judged , by the market at least , to be more than three times as valuable as a customer in Ulster or Border regions . |
| 17 | Stuck in the middle of the Oxfordshire countryside with hundreds of noisy incomprehensible children and colleagues who make me feel about as comfortable as a walk in the rain . |
| 18 | Both powers in practice are as useful as a parachute in a space ship — reassuring but not very practical . |
| 19 | The songs are consistent in that they are uniformly as confused as an Asian skinhead , as profound as a boiled egg , and as lifeless as a dick in a refrigerator . |
| 20 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 21 | ‘ No , ’ countered Barney , ‘ she seems as happy as a pig in poop . |
| 22 | I was as happy as a pig in shit . |
| 23 | The captain was as happy as a pig in the mire . |
| 24 | Anyway , she looked as beautiful as a rose in her tube dress , arching her neck , turning her flowerlike head , pouting professionally , smiling . |
| 25 | You 're as snug as a bug in a rug here , Myles . |
| 26 | As immediate as a kick in the shins . |
| 27 | With design in Germany racing forward , some of their ideas for coordinating fabrics in the bedroom with colours in your wardrobes can create an image which is as cool as a stroll in the Black Forest . |
| 28 | My mind raced as nimble as a flea in air . |
| 29 | At last , she reached a wall , waist-high , stone-built , below which stretched the shore , as pale as a seashell in the moonlight . |
| 30 | Was that slightly pooped gentleman with the waving arms who had ( oh God ! ) told Lord Boddy that his views were absolutely fascinating , and ( oh God oh God ! ) lit another of the television company 's cigarettes with their silver butane table-lighter every time he had seen the red light come up on the camera pointing at him — was that exuberantly shameful figure really identical with the anguished mortal man who now lay here stretched as taut as a piano-string in the dark ? |