Example sentences of "cold and [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 No bread was eatable , for it was as cold and hard as a stone . ’
2 She looked straight in front of her , and her face was as cold and hard as marble .
3 And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ?
4 And I 'm out here , where there are n't any proper walls to the world , and the water goes cold and hard as glass some mornings , and the ventilation and heating systems are quite shockingly out of control .
5 His voice as cold and hard as polished steel , Michele said , ‘ It was you who suggested I could have her eating out of my hand … ’
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