Example sentences of "and [adj] as a [noun sg] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fully grown woman , the muscles on her arms and legs as thick and obvious as a man 's . |
| 2 | Her skin was blue-green and marbled in the reflected lake water , and her eyes were as dull and expressionless as a shark 's . |
| 3 | Her hair was long and black as a raven 's feather , untied so one wing partially covered her patch-covered missing eye . |
| 4 | They walked regardless of the weather : on early spring mornings when the sky was remote and pale as a plover 's egg ; on stormy autumn afternoons when they felt they could reach up and touch the lowering clouds that covered the land like a bruise ; and on frozen winter days when the sky was a white membrane stretched so tight that they could imagine it cracking with the cold . |
| 5 | And from this close Ronni could see that the lashes that framed his eyes were as thick and sooty as a chimney-sweep 's brush . |