Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] a rake " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's nice to know that junk food does n't just put weight on , you know on , on everybody else , I do n't know , you eat junk food , and there you are as skinny as a rake , it 's not on sometimes , but there you are . |
| 2 | Tuberculosis as a child had kept Billy out of the war , but he was now a fit twenty-six year old , as tall as Yanto , but as thin as a rake . |
| 3 | In spite of all this food I remained as thin as a rake , and was as hungry as ever . |
| 4 | He went as thin as a rake , and deathly pale then for a couple of weeks . |
| 5 | She 's also as thin as a rake . |
| 6 | She said when she saw you last you were as thin as a rake — and she 's right . |
| 7 | She remained as thin as a rake , although she was eating properly now . |