Example sentences of "[verb] as high [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Rives had everything , including immense strength , whereas Jones is hugely athletic and can jump as high as a guy six inches taller than himself .
2 And high above , at the end of the curve , the steep hillsides rose as high as the rim of the dormant volcano on High Island .
3 ‘ A horse and a cart that stands as high as a house and cost the best part of thirty pounds and you lost them both ? ’
4 Estimates ranged as high as a couple of hundred units having been sold in Japan .
5 Though I jumped too when he cracked the whip , there came a time when I refused to jump as high as the others .
6 As long as they 've been racing hangliders in Britian Pete Harvey from Milton Keynes has flown as fast and soared as high as the very best …
7 Do you also remember another New Testament scholar at Manchester who flipped and declared that the word ‘ Jesus ’ was really a code for a sacred mushroom and the Bible was a do-it-yourself manual for getting as high as the stars without leaving your body ?
8 Suddenly flying as high as a kite , she could n't resist the tiny gibe .
9 I wish to go as high as the church steeple , ’ she told the broom firmly .
10 If it goes as high as an additional half a million each year then the structural management fund will not last through the three years .
11 Her mind leapt as high as the moon — somehow she knew the seal could answer her heart 's desire — but how could she make it happen ?
12 In the event , they found the crossing reasonably easy , the water never reaching as high as the beasts ' bellies .
13 in fact , in some cases fixed costs can enable the established firm to price as high as the monopoly level yet induce no entry — what Bain called " blockaded entry " ( see Dixit , 1979 ) .
14 In Brisbane where 300,000 people packed together in the city centre , hysteria ran as high as the baking 95 degree temperature .
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