Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the Rummidge A to Z open on the passenger seat beside her , she set off to find J. Pringle & Sons , somewhere on the other side of the city : the dark side of Rummidge , as foreign to her as the dark side of the moon . |
| 2 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 3 | Once the film has stopped I want you to think of things which could occur to make the situation dangerous to you as the driver of the car . |
| 4 | Will it all seem as quaint to them as the age of steam and the stovepipe hat now seems to us ? |
| 5 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 6 | The route to the door of the sanctum was as familiar to him as the limbs he 'd lost . |
| 7 | He could n't remember her name ; her face was as familiar to him as the frontage of the village shop or outline of the church tower ; he had always been hopeless at names . |
| 8 | Madeleine had no intention of agreeing to this suggestion and , throughout the long journey back in the car , she remained as close to him as the gear lever allowed , and whenever an opportunity presented itself , leant over and kissed his cheek . |
| 9 | If it were as close to us as the Orion Nebula , it would cast shadows . |
| 10 | At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former . |
| 11 | Baldersdale was en fête , or as near to it as the dale ever came , when Guardsman George Fawcett arrived back somewhat unexpectedly , from the war . |
| 12 | In the Cleggan every disappeared hillock and mound had a name that told and contained the kernel of its history and the people who knew the names , and why they were so called , were removed to another district as anonymous to them as the place they left behind had become anonymous ’ . |