Example sentences of "[coord] as [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were hard , some sticky , some wobbly or as runny as water . |
| 2 | He was a strong , healthy lad and as pleased as punch to be working with Dad . |
| 3 | You know , so all the time you 're up here , like this , and then perhaps you stay to try and get some work finished before you go home , and as sure as fate , that 's the day when you promised to take somebody out , when you go home , and you 've forgotten about it . |
| 4 | I know what you want , and as sure as hell , ’ he said savagely , his merciless hands holding her a prisoner , ‘ I 'll stop you from getting it . ’ |
| 5 | He was drunk and as sure as hell only after one thing and you let yourself — ’ |
| 6 | Two years into the SAS campaign , the Cornish surfers are as angry as ever and as adamant that change must come . |
| 7 | Blue eyes , as light and as frozen as ice , stared into hers before his glance moved slowly downwards , deliberately insulting . |
| 8 | It was a very cold frosty night in December , and because the snow on the footpath was hard and uneven , and as slippery as ice , I walked along the edge of the road . |
| 9 | and as clever as circus monkeys . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're as pure and as good as gold . |
| 11 | The reasons for it were as old and as primal as mankind itself . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's two sides to you , you know , Aggie , and one 's unfair and as bitter as gall . ’ |
| 13 | She though the place well-named , for the hall was bleak and comfortless and as cold as winter in High Tor . |
| 14 | Full of fire at the first performance , he would be worn out and as cold as marble at the third . |
| 15 | His own voice was low and as cold as steel . |
| 16 | The sky was huge , and as pale as porcelain . |
| 17 | They were empty , and as quiet as death . |
| 18 | They were unpublished stories , filled with the plight of his affairs : an art student , bundled in the winter snow and as bright as Easter , a girl , really . |
| 19 | But the enthusiasm , she had the Reverend Nicholson 's word for it , was ‘ as honest , as questing and as pious as m- any man I have ever met ’ . |
| 20 | Strong , dedicated , skilful , passionate , intelligent and as angry as hell . |
| 21 | She had not tried , as yet , to see beyond today ; she sensed that what she saw when she did lift her eyes might well be a void , and as bleak as winter ice . |
| 22 | There was a smell of wood smoke and flowers , and the house felt as warm and as kind as summer . |
| 23 | One year they 've got long hair and spend their spare time reading Marx , the next they 're shorn like sheep and as conservative as hell . |
| 24 | But as far as aim is with , on a typical day , say if I get out of the depot at quarter to nine , if you like , and look at today 's string , I go to Derby . |
| 25 | He 's good and great , but as cold as ice . |