Example sentences of "[adv] white [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was marriage again , only white and spring churchyard and hundreds of people smiling about it all . |
| 2 | Her skin was as white as milk , her eyes were green flecked with amber , and rather slanted . |
| 3 | She watched him gazing amorously at those twin orbs , as white as marble , and as plump as pigeons . |
| 4 | She saw the child white in the face , as white as paper , trembling all over , the eyes glazed , staring straight ahead and seeing nothing . |
| 5 | Ewen went as white as paper , and jerked upright in his chair . |
| 6 | Harvey 's casts were as white as snow . |
| 7 | And it seemed to them that there came against them on the part of the Christians full seventy thousand knights , all as white as snow : . |
| 8 | ‘ Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet , they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson , they shall be as wool . ’ |
| 9 | The linen when dry is as white as snow . |
| 10 | The Greeks preferred to find their gospel example of the contemplative life in the story of the Transfiguration of Jesus on Mount Tabor , when his glory shone through his humanity and his garments became as white as snow to the astonishment and joy of three of his disciples who were privileged to see the vision . |
| 11 | Two minutes later , a truly magnificent swan , as white as snow , came swooping in and landed on a branch nearby . |
| 12 | Susan 's face was as white as snow and she was shaking with cold . |
| 13 | You 've gone as white as snow . ’ |
| 14 | Both looked very similar , faces and hair as white as snow whilst their eyes were strangely blue though red-rimmed . |
| 15 | A grizzled gnome of a man with a face as white as office paper and a pepper speckle of beard growth across his jowls and chin . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The order was obeyed , and as Mr Brownlow turned to go down the street , he saw Oliver lying on the pavement , shaking , his face as white as death . |
| 18 | as white as wedding sheets , my lips |
| 19 | Her lips were red , half-open as if waiting to be kissed , displaying teeth as white as ivory , though I noticed one tooth slightly out of line with the others . |
| 20 | The room was as coldly white as death . |