Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't mind using the gears to achieve this , because clutch and gear change are as slick as a car 's — ladies take note . |
| 2 | There was one last hope of invisibility , as dignified as the cat 's , although this time for her friend . |
| 3 | ‘ Do after your kind , ’ said Radulfus , looking down at the pair with a face almost as blanched as the prior 's , ‘ and so must I. Jerome , ’ he said , with absolute and steely authority , ‘ look up and face me . ’ |
| 4 | A knight broke through on his way to a local joust or tournament , his steel codpiece carved as large as a bull 's whilst the helmet which swung from his saddle bow was fashioned in the macabre mask of a hangman . |
| 5 | He was black and gleaming , his outline as smooth as a dolphin 's even down to the hint of rubber . |
| 6 | There she sat , in her familiar party outfit , an eccentric , much-worn , embroidered Chinese garment , her neat , solidly cut , smartly sloping black hair as tidy as a doll 's , looking perhaps faintly Chinese rather than Jewish , diminutive as she was , and with those high cheek-bones : and there sat Alix , also by Charles 's standards impoverished , though not by her own , which were more austere . |
| 7 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 8 | The words on the page constitute a lifeless text until the poem is evoked ( literally , ‘ called forth ’ ) by the reader , who is given an autonomy as powerful as the writer 's when she gets deep into a text , using all her mental , emotional and physical experiences — and makes a poem of it : evokes it . |
| 9 | A sob , swiftly repressed , rose in her throat ; she was condemning herself to a life as lonely as the seagull 's looked , but it , at least , could find a mate — she would never be able to do that . |
| 10 | The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked , black peat , where water lay and sharp , white stones , some as big as a pigeon 's , some as a rabbit 's skull , glimmered in the moonlight . |
| 11 | Gran said , ‘ She had a lovely face , and hair as fair as a baby 's , long enough to sit on . |
| 12 | His eyes were as golden as a hawk 's , but so still and intent they awed her faintly . |
| 13 | This metaphor is developed in the second last line to describe the voice of the tramp as ‘ as sweet as a bird 's … ’ . |