Example sentences of "[noun] the same colour " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knocked boldly on the door of this house , and there was a rustling , and creaking , and the door opened a tiny crack , and there stood a little man , with a face as grey as morning ashes , and a long woolly beard the same colour . |
| 2 | That pretty blonde hair , those big blue eyes — how 'd you get eyes the same colour as those sequins , honey ? ’ |
| 3 | The refugees , small wiry people dressed in rags the same colour as the desert , huddle in the shelters , crouch in the shade behind the buildings , or in groups around the places where relief teams distribute what little food there is . |
| 4 | She dyed some of the rice grains a different colour from the background , these grains were easy to see : she dyed other grains the same colour as the background , which made them difficult to see . |
| 5 | In the form here , the inner surfaces of the outer petals are the most perfect white , the whole of the three inner petals the same colour . |
| 6 | The Thing had said there were ways of growing plants under lights the same colour as the sun , in pots full of a sort of weak soup that helped plants grow . |
| 7 | Avoid food the same colour . |
| 8 | But was redcurrant jam the same colour in Normandy in 1853 as it is now ? |
| 9 | ‘ Give me a minute and I 'll come up with something that will turn your face the same colour as your tie ! ’ |