Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] as [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little grease-ball of a gaoler waddled off , taking us along passages and galleries as black as midnight , down steps coated with slime and human dirt where rats swarmed thick as fleas on a mangy dog . |
| 2 | Both looked very similar , faces and hair as white as snow whilst their eyes were strangely blue though red-rimmed . |
| 3 | Too big and too dramatic , with his wild black hair , copper-dark suntan and eyes as black as midnight . |
| 4 | No matter how carefully he sliced each shovelful in an arc out on the wind , there were certain unpredictable gusts that lifted the grains and blew them back towards the tractor so that by evening his clothes were filthy with lime , his face and hands as white as chalk , accentuating the inflamed red round his eyes . |
| 5 | We paddle on seas the green of cat 's eyes , and seas as clear as mountain streams . |
| 6 | The reduction in price is , as companies as diverse as Eagle Star , Vernons Pools , Fullers Brewery , J Sainsbury and Co and even ACCOUNTANCY Magazine have been quick to see . |