Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wide formal boulevards of Algiers , the plane-trees with their trunks painted white , the tall graceful white-painted houses with their balconies and shutters , the shade of the square reserved for Europeans : all these reminded him of the France he had loved so much as a child ; the towns of the South — Arles or Nîmes or Avignon , some of the small towns of the Loire . |
| 2 | You may remember that Samson was a man of enormous strength and then , following a liaison with Delila and her cutting off his hair , he was reported to have become as weak as a child — and yet there was an occasion , which led to his death , when he brought the whole temple down by pulling the pillars against which he was propped . |
| 3 | Feeling as uncompleted as a child |
| 4 | And anyone could see he was as simple as a child , just by the look of him . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They should n't drive so fast because their car is n't worth as much as a child 's life . |
| 7 | His face was open and pleasant , with a skin as pink as a child 's . |
| 8 | When Aunt Tossie gave , or spent , she was as exuberant as a child , tossing a ball into the air . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Bernie 's indiarubber face was as guileless as a child 's . |
| 11 | She had never been on a train before and the speed , which must have been twenty miles an hour , made her as excited as a child . |
| 12 | Katherine had been as excited as a child on Christmas morning . |
| 13 | Gold bracelets , each as thick as a child 's wrist , if their hair was blonde ; amber , ebony , ivory , white gold , amethysts … |
| 14 | I always had to pay a nurse to look after her ; she wasted away , could n't stand or walk , but her eyes were as bright as a child 's and so was her wit . |
| 15 | ‘ said Grazie in a voice as sweet as a child 's |
| 16 | You are treated very much as a child even when you 're sixteen , seventeen , eighteen years old . |