Example sentences of "[noun] as white [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Both looked very similar , faces and hair as white as snow whilst their eyes were strangely blue though red-rimmed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |