Example sentences of "high as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond , surrounding a thicket of rushes , stood an enclosure of posts and rails half as high as a man . |
| 2 | Jutting out of it were a series of tall posts , high as a man , and attacking them were a score of figures whilst thirty others looked on , wooden swords in their hands , and three Myrcans directed the whole group . |
| 3 | The reeds here were as high as a man , water gurgling in the creeks , running towards the sea . |
| 4 | Estimates ranged as high as a couple of hundred units having been sold in Japan . |
| 5 | ‘ While at present returns are not as high as a year ago , they are still relatively attractive . ’ |
| 6 | I never seen a Christmas tree so big — it 's as high as a house . |
| 7 | ‘ A horse and a cart that stands as high as a house and cost the best part of thirty pounds and you lost them both ? ’ |
| 8 | There was a terrible wind blowing as well , sheeting across the plateau , piling the snow into drifts as high as a house . |
| 9 | Drifts as high as a house Jamie said . ’ |
| 10 | So a handclasp burned along her nerves and home again with just herself and music , she burned through sonnets sober as never before and high as a condor . |
| 11 | Rives had everything , including immense strength , whereas Jones is hugely athletic and can jump as high as a guy six inches taller than himself . |
| 12 | Jekub 's back wheels were nearly as high as a human . |
| 13 | I 'm as high as a kite and there 's no champagne in the orange juice . ’ |
| 14 | That he was high as a kite on Ecstasy and had thought they were larking about ! |
| 15 | And er , I first started feeling I was overweight when I fourteen and I was , I was twelve stone and I went to the doctor and got black capsules to take which had me as high as a kite for a long time ! |
| 16 | The three basic methods are gas and air , which many had used , some so enthusiastically that they ended up either very sleepy , or as one said , " as high as a kite " . |
| 17 | If Rainbow seems high as a kite , half-delirious , with racing pulse and her heartbeat dancing the hora , it is only because the delicious hand of Riva now lies firmly clasped within her own . |
| 18 | Last reported early yesterday morning , high as a kite , heading for a train . |
| 19 | When I put you to bed you were high as a kite . ’ |
| 20 | Well you 're either sort of scraping off the ceiling cos you 're as high as a kite |
| 21 | Suddenly flying as high as a kite , she could n't resist the tiny gibe . |
| 22 | as high as a kite radio , all |
| 23 | as high as a kite radio , all |
| 24 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 25 | The procession of raised rook and chicken pies , with their intricate decorations , that made its appearance in the kitchen raised their expectations as high as the pie coffins , as did the jellies vanishing into the larders , and sorbets into the refrigerators . |
| 26 | Oh it had oh yes definitely , they used to have a lot of machinery from Germany , cos they were specialists in , in power presses , oh I used to , the one big press I used to work on I used bells , erm all this was great nearly as high as the ceiling here and it was an press , and er just one just press a lever or a handle there used to be er handles on the side as well sometimes they put levers sometimes a handle and the bell would come out all formed and everything and that was heavy steel , and that was a heavy job , but erm they were very very heavy presses they , the pressure was very I do n't know tons or something like that , but erm it was all er it was all to cut labour out and er and the self-feed as well where one would be feeding it or you 'd pull it yourself , it was automatic all automatic I could n't think of that word before . |
| 27 | The incidence of severe acute renal failure in the community is at least twice as high as the incidence reported from renal unit based studies . |
| 28 | To this could be added the possibility of building the towers only as high as the wall itself , thus enabling the cannon used for defence to be moved along its length ( now on one level ) to whichever part it was most needed . |
| 29 | In this study , the glutamate/GABA ratio is raised in the epileptogenic hippocampus , particularly in the postseizure period when glutamate remains high as the GABA concentration returns to normal , which may cause the hippocampal damage characteristic of temporal lobe epilepsy , since a similar pattern is produced in normal animals by stimulation of excitatory input to the hippocampus . |
| 30 | I wish to go as high as the church steeple , ’ she told the broom firmly . |