Example sentences of "hard as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is that women typically become ‘ equal ’ by having to do more , to stretch themselves to work as hard as a man , even when experiencing bodily processes that a male has never experienced . |
| 2 | An orchestral player works as hard as a navvy . |
| 3 | The old coppers who I knew — they used to hit hard enough to stun them , as hard as a butcher hits a cow before he kills it . |
| 4 | Her mother looked at me , her face as still and hard as a life mask . |
| 5 | The Leviathan was a ruthless and cruel creature , with ‘ a heart as hard as a millstone ’ , and it destroyed anything which came in its path . |
| 6 | No bread was eatable , for it was as cold and hard as a stone . ’ |
| 7 | I hope I can get plain sewing work enough where I need not spoil my fingers , but if I ca n't , I hope to mae my hands as red as blood pudding and as hard as a beechen trencher to accommodate them to my condition . |
| 8 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |
| 9 | His penis and testicles are as fresh and as hard as a spring bulb . |
| 10 | The fish fought as hard as a 10lb summer pike and I was quite staggered to lift aboard a barracuda of about 2lb . |
| 11 | I 'm about as hard as a tub of lard , tho some people are fooled by my fascist green bomber jacket … |
| 12 | Kelly trains as hard as the rest of the squad at a sports centre in nearby Stone , but according to the team 's joint manager , Ken Roberts , he has been known to polish off three Chinese take-aways afterwards . |
| 13 | Its only drawback , apart from the slightly adulterated styling , is that the Carrera 4 is not as much fun to drive hard as the old 911 . |
| 14 | With the public-sector pay cuts , the government has now hit the towns as hard as the country . |
| 15 | But he was granted no special treatment and had to toil just as hard as the hired hands . |
| 16 | Here he would be forced to work as hard as the people among whom he lived . |
| 17 | And big brewers Scottish & Newcastle chairman Sir Alick Rankin reckons the north will soon be hit as hard as the south . |
| 18 | Harry swallowed hard as the figure of Jake surfaced in his mind . |
| 19 | ‘ The quads were great fun but not so hard as the crosscountry skiing we did . |
| 20 | Fleury 's cakes had not turned out very well ; in fact they had dried as hard as the stone they were baked on , and had to be chipped off with a bayonet . |
| 21 | Anne was a gentle girl ; she did not fight as hard as the others . |
| 22 | The Colourcode play funk as hard as the Red Hot Chili Peppers , but with the feel that the Chilis so obviously lack on their heavy-handed interpretation of Stevie Wonder 's ‘ Higher Ground ’ . |
| 23 | His face went as hard as the bronze , it resembled and his eyes said things I pretended not to hear . |
| 24 | He made her work twice as hard as the others . |
| 25 | But the academic publishing world has been hit just as hard as the rest of the academic world . |
| 26 | Light hit his face as hard as the stinging raindrops . |
| 27 | Carrington raised the bottle , swallowed , and sneezed hard as the fumes went up his nose . |
| 28 | The Colourcode play funk as hard as the Red Hot Chili Peppers , but with the feel that the Chilis so obviously lack on their heavy-handed interpretation of Stevie Wonder 's ‘ Higher Ground ’ . |
| 29 | In thunderous silence he raced to the traffic lights and had to brake hard as the lights changed . |
| 30 | Ruth squeezed tight her eyes and swallowed hard as the aircraft soared up into the sky . |