Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lately he 's been as touchy as a bitch on heat . |
| 2 | The compulsion to get away , and not look back , was as strong as a hand on her shoulder urging her forward . |
| 3 | After morning service , when the last of the footsteps , and voices exchanging greetings , had died away , she heard the vicar ride off , the clip-clop of the horse 's hooves as clear as a bell on the cold air . |
| 4 | For Christ 's sake , M' lud , the matter 's as clear as the loincloth on the Crucifixion . |
| 5 | He paused for a moment , ‘ Not as exciting as the landing on the morning of 6th June ? ’ |
| 6 | There is no attempt to weight the votes — a vote on whether the marigold should be the national flower counts as much as a vote on an arms limitation treaty . |
| 7 | As much as the mite on the bee 's mouth parts knew about the rest of her body , or about the throbbing hive . |
| 8 | An indication that the issue is not quite as straightforward as the focus on reduction makes it seem can be gleaned from the high moral tone which pervades the discussion . |
| 9 | It was still as gloomy as the day on which she had first seen it and she longed to transform it into a place of splendid elegance . |
| 10 | The big wooden table had been scrubbed as white as a bone on the seashore . |
| 11 | Tess 's face went as white as the snow on the ground . |
| 12 | He knows sod all about football and , talk about stingy , I wish the defence were as tight as the clasp on his wallet . |
| 13 | The answer is as obvious as the sign on a streetcar — it is a business man . |
| 14 | He had been a cheerful fellow in those days and life was as inconsequential as a laugh on the wind or the carelessly squandered words of a song . |
| 15 | The key was the institution of a density control based on a normal limit of floor space five times as great as the plot on which building was to take place . |
| 16 | Levy 's voice is as rough as a shag on the floor of a sandpaper factory , the lyric is utterly ridiculous , describing the popularity and stylishness of a certain fashionable item , and the soprano sax added to that tender little guitar lick from the Arrested Development record just upsets your soul . |
| 17 | ‘ OK , ugly duckling , take all the time you need , but I insist on force-feeding you that sangría before we leave : you 're as uptight as a barnacle on a boat 's bum . ’ |
| 18 | It was as plain as the nose on his face . ’ |
| 19 | She could see , as plain as the nose on her face , that here was a man of the self-centred , philandering , dangerous variety , the kind of man no girl in her right mind would risk getting involved with … so how come her hormones were letting her down in this maddening way ? |
| 20 | His patient , a girl whose age was uncertain — he judged her to be about fourteen or fifteen — was at the moment quiescent , her face as grey as the linen on which she lay , her eyes closed . |
| 21 | Yet , as she watched him , perched as lithe as a cat on the prow , leaning back out over the waves to balance the little craft , his splendid chest scattered with little beads of water , Ronni was aware that she did n't really mean it . |
| 22 | I was as helpless and as degraded as the pig on the bench at the top of our garden nearly thirty years ago . |
| 23 | And then he 'd lock the doors to the reception block , and he 'd retire to his back room and make himself as small as a child on his bunk in the corner . |
| 24 | Here a Kalashnikov in the back is as common as a delay on the Northern Line . |
| 25 | I suppose that is as outspoken as an expert on etiquette can dare become in digging the dirt with his agricultural implement instead of a spade . |
| 26 | Katherine had been as excited as a child on Christmas morning . |
| 27 | The blonde girl lay as motionless as a corpse on the ground , a thread of blood ribboning her temple . |
| 28 | But the eyes on him were shining as at Kalopetra , when he had been constrained to leave , and she , for a while , had stood to stop him ; stood as close as the flesh on his body . |
| 29 | The promises on human rights seemed as tenuous as the Declaration on Liberated Europe , issued at Yalta 30 years before , and it was difficult to reconcile the Helsinki pledge to refrain from interference in other countries ' affairs with the Brezhnev doctrine . |
| 30 | Shreeves said : ‘ Gary could be as bright as a button on Monday , but I felt we had to let Graham Taylor know . ’ |