Example sentences of "as thick [subord] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chanting continued slightly changing in pitch , then from separate deep corners of the pool undulated six velvet-black eels , each slightly longer than ourselves , and as thick as our thighs . |
| 2 | And at the Transit at Novosibirsk there were rats , great grey pigs , a tail as thick as your little finger , and the men in the holding cells slept in a laager in the centre of the floor and changed the watch in the dark hours so that always some men guarded the edge of their perimeter . |
| 3 | Roll the marzipan into ribbons about as thick as your finger . |
| 4 | Plump , as thick as my thumb and over four inches long , she swelled the fat rolls of her cabbage-green body , adorned at intervals with hairy warts of turquoise blue . |
| 5 | It is ‘ as thick as my thumb ’ — too big , surely . |
| 6 | The newly lit candle , blood red and as thick as my wrist , contained the still flame and the tiny head within its caldera of wax like pieces of an alien game . |
| 7 | P.S You must be really hard — You 're as thick as my house wall . |
| 8 | After the shopping Denis would sit in the orderly room , watching his father write in ledgers twice as wide and twenty times as thick as his school exercise-books , or he 'd gaze longingly at the Royal Irish Constabulary uniforms of his father 's colleagues with their shining buttons and belts hanging neatly from pegs on the wall , the caps , the spiked helmets and the little pill-box hats of the cavalry police lined up , as if on parade , on a table along with whistle-chains , handcuff-cases and batons . |
| 9 | It was about a metre long and as thick as his wrist . |
| 10 | Her long , sable-dark hair was confined in two braids , each as thick as his wrist , but several shorter tendrils had escaped and curled enticingly over her brow and temples , almost mingling with the sooty lashes feathering luminous grey eyes that would probably show her every emotion . |