Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from deep psychiatry and hypnosis which can sometimes disclose these events and thus heal them , the only way to overcome these fears is to expand the adult part of our mind and tune out the child and the parent as much as we can . |
| 2 | and the putty as dry as a Wesley an wedding . |
| 3 | Outside , the sky was dusky-black and the air as warm as wool . |
| 4 | ‘ Just pray we do n't get a North Atlantic fog , because in those latitudes we could roll in the swells for days , with the moisture beading the shrouds and the air as cold as charity , and always being terrified that a super-tanker will barrel out of the muck at full speed to thump you under her bows without even knowing you were ever there . ’ |
| 5 | He never noticed the brilliant sunny days , hot as the Mediterranean , when the sky was vivid blue , and the air as sweet as wine . |
| 6 | Baldwin 's main role was to keep his colleagues and the country as calm as possible . |
| 7 | More than ever , Paris is the cultural centre of Europe and I go there maybe six times a year for ideas and inspiration , from the shops and the street as much as from the fashion companies . |
| 8 | She was fighting and then beaten , the pain and the blackness as vivid in her nightmare as it had been in reality . |
| 9 | In the E flat Sonata I enjoyed his cajoling lyrical charm in the opening movement and the Menuetto as much as his pin-point clarity in the Scherzo and his mounting flames in the finale . |
| 10 | The cube building is the base , with consulting rooms in the basement and the sides of the cube are a honeycomb of booths soft furnished with couch , video screen , audio input — and the article as common in every house as the telephone once was , the communications terminal , enabling me to key-in my needs . |
| 11 | This series shone for 11 years because the scripts were consistently sharp and the regulars as welcome as a cool lager on a hot day . |
| 12 | Are the British as bad and the French as good at sex as they claim to be ? |