Example sentences of "as tall [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | An outcrop of white rock from the steep hillside seemed to the children as tall as a cliff . |
2 | If madame was like her son then she would be as tall as a tree . |
3 | Instinctively the two men were looking for faces that they knew — Mary McCulloch and her friends , big Mary as tall as a man , red-haired Flora . |
4 | They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man . |
5 | A termite fortress , walled , buttressed and castellated , may contain ten tons of mud and stand three or four times as tall as a man . |
6 | The engine rooms lay astern and in the bows , beneath awnings , were wheels as tall as a man . |
7 | A pile of wooden boxes as tall as a man stood on the quay . |
8 | T. Rex was a terrible-looking carnivore , some 15 metres long and 5 metres high , as tall as a giraffe and weighing over 8 tons fully grown . |
9 | Sharpe angled away from the river , guiding the horse beside a field of rye which had grown as tall as a man.The field path led uphill , then , after picking a delicate path through a tangled copse where tree roots gave treacherous footing for the horse , Sharpe slid down an earthen bank on to a rutted road where he was shadowed and hidden from the Dragoons by the trees that arched overhead . |
10 | Standing beside the water tank , on top of the caravan 's portable step , Pa looks as tall as a Zulu in his red stole ( brown , for me ) with the black umbrella held over his head at full stretch by Ma who is standing behind in the mud and wet with a white towel draped over her arm and her hair flat and all dark with water . |
11 | For one inclusive price you can enjoy the thrills of the Astroglide ( a six-lane slide that 's as tall as a house ) , roller-coaster , Western train ride , adventure play area plus roundabouts specially for the very young . |
12 | ‘ I shall be as tall as a house in a minute , ’ she said . |
13 | ‘ One minute I 'm very small , the next minute I 'm as tall as a house , then I 'm small again . |
14 | as tall as a palm tree and perfectly black [ with ] one eye which flamed like a burning coal in the middle of his forehead . |
15 | He seemed as tall as a mountain , and every one of his steps measured about ten metres . |
16 | Something as tall as a steeple , in a trailing black dress , fair hair cascading ; a face turned , looking down at Ruth , with long mocking green eyes that glimmered like the sea . |
17 | Three metres long and heavy , almost as tall as a horse , it had a menacing array of sharp teeth . |
18 | It was not that Grom was especially tall , certainly not as tall as an Orc , but he was enormously and infamously fat . |
19 | Oh , sure , he quivers on slippery poles as tall as the moon is high , and lopes nude down tunnels while alarm-clocks sound , etc — but there are no worrying resonances . |
20 | He was nearly as tall as the ceiling and hardly had to reach . |
21 | There were trees outside , great towering hulks of oak , ash and chestnut that stood almost as tall as the house itself . |
22 | The shelves near the ground were usually well kept , but higher up they became more disorganised and larger in size , almost as tall as the pupils themselves . |
23 | She was almost as tall as the outsider . |
24 | ‘ I 'm as tall as the tower . ’ |
25 | He was n't as tall as the marquis , but he had a wiry physique and a sound constitution . |
26 | A big broad-shouldered man stood there , looking gently down at her ; he seemed almost as tall as the half-mortals , his shadow streaming a long way across the beach . |