Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] as [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wind the Dodge right out to the 6500rpm red line — there 's a cut-out at 6700rpm — and the engine stays on boost , the widely spaced gear ratios are disguised and acceleration is impressive enough , without ever feeling as energetic or gutsy as the Vauxhall 's . |
| 2 | They always had to be constrained in public , Sundays or not ; and if anything they were less so on Sunday , when sometimes their clothes were pretty , and at least were seldom black , navy blue or grey as the men 's were invariably … . |
| 3 | He saw not Alina , but something with eyes of blazing green ; her hair a long mane strewn with weeds , her dress a dripping shroud , her teeth sharp , her skin pale and scaly as a snake 's . |
| 4 | The landscape is as simple , naive and charming as a child 's painting . |
| 5 | Henrietta dived into the pool and her head emerged , neat and glossy as a seal 's . |
| 6 | A thin wedge of what looked like mud caked between the heel and the sole of the left shoe ; the pattern of blood stiffening the fine fawn cashmere of the sweater ; the half-open mouth fixed in a rictus between a smile and a sneer ; the dead eyes seeming as he watched to shrink into their sockets ; the left hand with its long pale fingers , curved and delicate as a girl 's ; the palm of the right hand thick with blood . |
| 7 | His cheeks were round and innocent as a choir-boy 's . |
| 8 | cold and stiff as the Devil 's penis . |
| 9 | It would be the earliest , thongs milk-white and small as a baby 's fingers , were even now draining on toast . |
| 10 | The pipes wailed and squealed into life , then caught their air to fill the room with a martial sound as the company , two by two and slow as an army 's progress up a country road , went in to supper . |
| 11 | Now she knew it was true , Alice 's face looked different to her : set , calm and holy as a nun 's . |