Example sentences of "as [adj] [subord] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | As much as life and death . |
| 2 | There were the words , as large as life and often twice as sane . |
| 3 | Yet here they were , as large as life — Surkov with his long yellow hair and Rozanov with his attenuated face and his baldness — clearly the living people with whom I had boozed and improvised in Moscow , so long ago . |
| 4 | Oh , Lee , you 're as large as life . |
| 5 | No , there it was , as large as life in capital letters : To MR LUDOVIC KENNEDY , BBC TELEVISION STUDIOS . |
| 6 | Jack Hayden obviously has a very close affinity with William Terris ' ghost because when he made a purposeful visit to Covent Garden Station recently he saw him ‘ as large as life ’ , as if waiting to welcome him back . |
| 7 | As large as life and death , both funny and sad — and not a little dangerous . |
| 8 | His range of interests is as large as life : births , marriages , deaths , quarrels , reconciliations , rhetoric , religion , cultivation , animal husbandry , home-crafts , politics — all claim his attention and are ( or should be ) faithfully reported — warts and all . |
| 9 | as large as life . |
| 10 | Andrew come , just come out as large as life . |
| 11 | When the bass cuts in we 're in dirty funk horizons , and even if you ca n't make out what 's being said , it sounds as urgent as life . |
| 12 | He moved on to the dome , which you must imagine like the magic covers you have seen in your drawing-room under which dwell all sorts of brilliant little birds , as natural as life on their branches , or flights of mysterious moths and butterflies . |
| 13 | Life under the bamboo is just as trite as life in the city where Doris , Klipstein , and Krumpacker exchange their polite , meaningless words . |
| 14 | There was more than the selection of the team to the boycott of a Test match by a people to whom the game has always been almost as precious as life itself but it again highlighted the fragile nature of West Indies cricket . |
| 15 | hesitation , a great deal of divided effort as near as life as possible in the first instance . |