Example sentences of "[noun] as tall as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engine rooms lay astern and in the bows , beneath awnings , were wheels as tall as a man . |
| 2 | A termite fortress , walled , buttressed and castellated , may contain ten tons of mud and stand three or four times as tall as a man . |
| 3 | Instinctively the two men were looking for faces that they knew — Mary McCulloch and her friends , big Mary as tall as a man , red-haired Flora . |
| 4 | Oh , sure , he quivers on slippery poles as tall as the moon is high , and lopes nude down tunnels while alarm-clocks sound , etc — but there are no worrying resonances . |
| 5 | An outcrop of white rock from the steep hillside seemed to the children as tall as a cliff . |
| 6 | A pile of wooden boxes as tall as a man stood on the quay . |