Example sentences of "[was/were] as [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So were as many as a hundred or so other females and now he lies surrounded by them , on guard and ready to do battle with any other male that tries to raid his harem . |
| 2 | Their goal , in the 46th minute , came from their first shot on target , and it was a real sickener for a Linfield defence who otherwise were as solid as a rock . |
| 3 | I saw her an hour since and she were as right as a bobbin . " |
| 4 | She must have been sixteen or seventeen summers old , tall and slender , and her eyes were as blue as a clear summer sky . |
| 5 | His eyes were as golden as a hawk 's , but so still and intent they awed her faintly . |
| 6 | Henry 's preparations for the consultation were as methodical as a dentist 's . |
| 7 | Her eyes were as dark as a rotten egg , and a tear of blood ran down alongside her nose to the corner of her mouth like a symptom of regret . |
| 8 | But the pressure of surrounding poverty and the fear of it were as inescapable as a shadow . |
| 9 | Profits in the first half of this year were as flat as a low-loader — rolling in little changed at £16.8 million . |
| 10 | Her eyes were as wide as a frightened fawn 's as she gazed up at him . |
| 11 | Today her eyes were as dull as a puddle . |
| 12 | His blue-grey eyes were as cold as a Siberian winter , and Polly felt as though she had been impaled by twin icicles . |
| 13 | ‘ You were as mad as a March hare . ’ |
| 14 | I was experiencing something very like despair , which was not altogether relieved when he turned me towards him and said , " I 'd love you if you were as bald as a coot . |
| 15 | No matter that their French or German accents were as thick as a slice of sushi . |
| 16 | She said when she saw you last you were as thin as a rake — and she 's right . |
| 17 | The reeds here were as high as a man , water gurgling in the creeks , running towards the sea . |
| 18 | I always had to pay a nurse to look after her ; she wasted away , could n't stand or walk , but her eyes were as bright as a child 's and so was her wit . |
| 19 | I 've only been in your bed with you once and then you were as jumpy as a cat thinking that sister of yours might come back unexpectedly . |
| 20 | They were as sportive as a pair of shire horses . |
| 21 | She had done sterling service already , and was as inert as a ship can well be — which is actually , as we have already speculated , not quite inert after all . |
| 22 | He showed me a little thing , the size of a hazelnut , in the palm of my hand , and it was as round as a ball . |
| 23 | The Chaplain 's face was as round as a moon . |
| 24 | From the back of the hummock a figure appeared and began moving unhurriedly up the hill on an irregular route , at times coming obliquely towards the Friar , and then abruptly changing direction and seeming to go away from him : thus tacking and weaving the man was as inconspicuous as a partridge on ploughland , so that if the Friar turned his eyes from him for a moment he was difficult to rediscover , so perfectly did he merge with the duns , browns , russets , and half-greens of the wood . |
| 25 | We visited the outhouses , stables , smithies , brewing rooms , barns — slipping and slithering , though Rachel was as sure-footed as a cat . |
| 26 | He agreed to a televised debate , hosted by Dan Rather , with Cameron Nielson Sr. Farnham was still feisty on the show , but Cameron Nielson , looking younger now than his son , was as skilled as a great matador , and finally evened the score with his former tormentor , driving him to tearful contrition . |
| 27 | At their £125,000 detached home at Cleveleys , Lancs , Gladys was as tight-lipped as a ventriloquist about the incident . |
| 28 | He thrust up two fingers in triumph at the driver , an old man who was as indifferent as a waxwork . |
| 29 | In terms of an apparently satisfactory way of explaining what goes on we are far less confident than in the good old days of AIDA — but at least we know that AIDA was as inadequate as a theory as her operatic namesake was ill-starred in love . |
| 30 | She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man . |