Example sentences of "hard as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | like sharp , gleaming jewels , hard as love : |
| 2 | We 're coming along very well and erm working hard as coach and erm things have really been picking up we 've been very pleased with the way it 's gone . |
| 3 | Meh'Lindi had formerly undergone experimental surgery to implant extrudable , shape-remembering plastiflesh reinforced with carbon fibre and flexicartilage which could toughen hard as horn . |
| 4 | Managing to grip the clinker boarding of her hull , they jammed their sharpened sticks of wood — lignum vitae , hard as metal , rustproof — into the softer timbers of the sloop and bored holes in the sides . |
| 5 | Vile yellow stuff it is , hard as flintstone . |
| 6 | This could prove a significant advantage over their chief rivals — Blue Orca , Hard As Iron and Red Paddy , who are all drawn high on the far rails . |
| 7 | ‘ They were able to cross because the black frost made the ground hard as rock that night . ’ |
| 8 | Then they were running another way , running , not to the warren but over the fields in the cold , and Bigwig dropped the berries — blood-red drops , red droppings hard as wire . |
| 9 | He had swung his head round , glaring at me , his eyes hard as glass . |
| 10 | His face had grown hard as flint , the skin taut and bloodless . |
| 11 | She was still laughing softly as she laid the phone down , but the laughter died in her throat as she looked up to see Adam standing a few feet away , his eyes hard as jet . |