Example sentences of "[adj] as [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The music was sure as a swing in high summer , to and fro , light as racing over a sunny lawn to the blessed shade under the trees . |
| 2 | Finding accommodation and getting to it proved as easy as falling off a log ; there were free-phone backpacker ads in the airport , we rang one of them and they had a ( free ) minibus waiting right there , which took all of us including bike . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's as easy as falling off a log . ’ |
| 4 | Carter mentions Walter de la Mare 's recourse to Christian allegory as being ‘ as good as putting up a No Trespassers sign ’ . |
| 5 | The city parasites were also massing as thick as flies over a turd : smooth-skinned lads , cloak-twitchers , quacks , night wanderers , mimes and petty sorcerers . |