Example sentences of "as strong [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I used many of the ship 's ropes too , and in the end my fence was as strong as a stone wall .
2 The man in the notional training sequence I described ‘ led ’ his horse on an invisible bond as strong as a rope .
3 The African is as strong as a ploughox , each man can do the work in this clime of two or three of men like us .
4 This trowel is every bit as strong as a knife or bayonet , and will easily prize up any large stones ( I have done this often , even in rock-hard clay ) .
5 She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man .
6 The compulsion to get away , and not look back , was as strong as a hand on her shoulder urging her forward .
7 And now she was as strong as a cart horse , and he did n't give a damn .
8 ‘ I 'm as strong as a horse , you know that .
9 She 's as strong as a horse .
10 I 'm as strong as a horse .
11 Tall , and as strong as a lion .
12 For a specimen of Muscovite of this shape Orowan found that the tensile strength was about 460,000 p.s.i. , that is to say nearly twenty times as strong as a specimen in which the cracks did not have to cross the planes of weakness .
13 George was a quick thinker so always did the introducing and all of the talking , but George did not talk about himself — he told of how Lennie was as strong as a bull and how he could buck barley all day .
14 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 .
15 She was stronger than a roach , as strong as an ox .
16 Sonny was tall and broad and as strong as an ox .
17 Now he 's as strong as an ox .
18 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 ) .
19 He 's as strong as an ox . ’
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