Example sentences of "high as [art] [noun] " 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 With such a small population averages tend to be meaningless but butterfats are generally about 4 per cent and milk yields can be almost as high as a Jersey 's .
7 I never seen a Christmas tree so big — it 's as high as a house .
8 ‘ 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 ? ’
9 There was a terrible wind blowing as well , sheeting across the plateau , piling the snow into drifts as high as a house .
10 Drifts as high as a house Jamie said . ’
11 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 .
12 Rives had everything , including immense strength , whereas Jones is hugely athletic and can jump as high as a guy six inches taller than himself .
13 Jekub 's back wheels were nearly as high as a human .
14 Bearing in mind the broadly similar repayment period , he might also be surprised that a £1.40 weekly instalment ( over 25 weeks ) carried a rate over three times as high as a £1.50 one ( over 21 weeks ) in spite of seeming to save him 10p every week .
15 I 'm as high as a kite and there 's no champagne in the orange juice . ’
16 That he was high as a kite on Ecstasy and had thought they were larking about !
17 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 !
18 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 " .
19 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 .
20 Last reported early yesterday morning , high as a kite , heading for a train .
21 When I put you to bed you were high as a kite . ’
22 Well you 're either sort of scraping off the ceiling cos you 're as high as a kite
23 Suddenly flying as high as a kite , she could n't resist the tiny gibe .
24 as high as a kite radio , all
25 as high as a kite radio , all
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Although not as high as the Alps , some of the peaks reach a most reasonable height of over 4,000′ .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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