Example sentences of "as [adj] as an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks about as friendly as an anaconda with belly-ache from too much goat-swallowing . |
| 2 | The voice belonged to the ‘ Trog ’ , a short , thick-set man who resembled a character of the Stone Age and was as strong as an ox . |
| 3 | She was stronger than a roach , as strong as an ox . |
| 4 | Sonny was tall and broad and as strong as an ox . |
| 5 | Now he 's as strong as an ox . |
| 6 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 7 | He 's as strong as an ox . ’ |
| 8 | as glossy as an aubergine , |
| 9 | No hedges , and peas as high as an elephant 's eye . ’ |
| 10 | As high as an elephant 's eye ? |
| 11 | They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) . |
| 12 | The other friend , who also decided to become a lawyer , was as straight as an arrow in flight , and in total contrast , was very conventional in his approach to life . |
| 13 | Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather . |
| 14 | An hour and there was a speck of yellow on the horizon as tiny as an aphid . |
| 15 | I 'm still as randy as an adolescent |
| 16 | It was as featureless as an egg . |
| 17 | You can not expect a reference book to be quite as gripping as an adventure novel , but all the same I read it cover to cover . |
| 18 | Blain 's very personal History of the Spitalfields Trust is as gripping as an adventure yarn . |
| 19 | Why wo n't he just admit he 's as bald as an egg ? |
| 20 | She had doubts , in fact , that he would even get involved in anything as routine as an affair ! |
| 21 | She would n't be here now , dressed to the nines for an evening that would be about as thrilling as an attack of flu , if she had n't again responded in anger to her emotions . |
| 22 | The spittle-bug or frog-hopper is equally as soft as an aphid , but three or four times the size . |
| 23 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 24 | At fifty-five his stomach was as flat as an ironing board . |
| 25 | It was about as long as an arm . |
| 26 | So , why do n't we say that a rubbish dump , or Mont Blanc , or the moon , is just as complex as an aeroplane or a dog , because in all these cases the arrangement of atoms is " improbable " ? |
| 27 | It was as great as an army , they said , and Rime Giants walked with it like shepherds . |
| 28 | One of the perplexities about the interpretation of quantum mechanics is what , if any , meaning it attaches to the reality of something as protean as an electron . |
| 29 | It was as heavy as an ox in spite of the fact that it was no taller than a young steer , and a green and greasy liquid flowed from its wounds . |
| 30 | He was at least 6 foot 3 inches tall and massively built ; not muscular , like the skinhead , but as heavy as an elephant . |