Example sentences of "[adj] as a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was given the opportunity to have a rehearsal with him but I declined because I am not like the professionals who can rehearse in detail and then put it over as fresh as a daisy when the time comes . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | I 'm as high as a kite and there 's no champagne in the orange juice . ’ |
| 4 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 5 | The sweater was as light as a puff and as smooth as a bird to touch . |
| 6 | She felt as fragile and foolish as a moth that beat itself against the hot glass of an electric bulb until it fell burned and spent , in its desperate doomed quest for the light . |
| 7 | The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact . |
| 8 | Joseph Stepper 's ‘ Wife ’ is one of the maddest ragga records ever made , as raw as a dinner that 's still walking around . |
| 9 | During contests he was as jumpy as a schoolgirl and gave off a static charge of nervous energy . |
| 10 | And , after being out in the sunshine with the children most of the day , she 'd lost her pale , city complexion , becoming as brown as a berry and looking much younger . |
| 11 | They were very rarely disturbed , at least by foreigners , since to hire a donkey cost a foreigner as much as a cab and pair of horses . |
| 12 | Would you prefer to move to a flat — one without so much as a balcony and with no windowsills — or to concrete your garden over and spend your days watching your neighbours at work ? |
| 13 | One solution is to set the glass back as much as a foot and to use thick , matured timber mullions to break up the surface . |
| 14 | No comments whatsoever could be found in the first soundings of reactions ‘ which even provided so much as a hint that some or other people 's comrade was in agreement with the attempted assassination ’ . |
| 15 | We do n't see it as much as a business or a pressure like he does . |
| 16 | And if I hear so much as a whisper that you have been broadcasting our private affairs around the country … ’ |
| 17 | Todd had n't spoken in over a minute , but there was a harshness on the line that Ellwood knew to be his breathing , and a thin , reedy , barely audible sound behind that , which resembled nothing so much as a cry that had been buried alive . |
| 18 | Remember , never move as much as a muscle if the moon is out , and never speak unless it 's to answer a question put by me . ’ |
| 19 | Paul Guillaume considered Modi a poet as much as a painter and remembered two improvised rhymes : |
| 20 | His oh-so-careful slimy grin that lashed out and maimed as much as a punch or a kick . |
| 21 | When Mr Wormwood arrived back from the garage that evening his face was as dark as a thunder-cloud and somebody was clearly for the high-jump pretty soon . |
| 22 | It just shows how much people take for granted in contemporary society where kissing has become as ordinary as a handshake and the media are constantly giving us the message that sex is only exciting if it is different or forbidden . |
| 23 | ‘ She was as straight as a die and a pillar of the community . |
| 24 | His back was also as straight as a ramrod and his highly polished black gaiters had flashed in the sun . |
| 25 | ’ I have n't been on the stage for a long time , so I 'm bound to be as nervous as a kitten before I go on . |
| 26 | But , she was as nervous as a kitten because we were , we were in a one of these Canadian type er |
| 27 | He sat back , as smug as a cat that has licked the cream , while Eleanor held his hand and looked concerned . |
| 28 | Quick as a flash and game for a good laugh , I said , ‘ Because Denis sent us ’ exactly at the same time as Jack said , ‘ Because Maureen wanted to have a good cry … ’ |
| 29 | The cook came up the side as quick as a monkey and saw what we were doing . |
| 30 | ‘ And are you , or are you not , sick as a parrot or over the moon respectively , about increased charges for changing rooms and pitches ? ’ |