Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as a sheet " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scarcely pausing for thought , she sat herself down at the keyboard and , without so much as a sheet of music to look at , launched into Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto , blushing deeply to the round of spontaneous applause . |
| 2 | He went as white as a sheet and backed off immediately . |
| 3 | He was as white as a sheet . |
| 4 | Chrissie Stone looked out at them , and they could see that her face was as white as a sheet . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're as white as a sheet and you 're shaking . |
| 6 | After Millie had flounced away to do her bidding , Aggie said , ‘ She came in that yard as white as a sheet . |
| 7 | She heard her father exclaim , " My soul to the Devil , she will not ! " which brought forth a gabble of Portuguese from the visitors that was too fast for Sara to understand but which turned Maria Candida as white as a sheet . |
| 8 | ‘ Goodbye ! ’ he said in a low , hollow voice , his face as white as a sheet . |
| 9 | ‘ You look as white as a sheet . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 're as white as a sheet , ’ he returned implacably . |
| 11 | Straightening , he turned to Lori , who had gone as white as a sheet , and had backed up to the door like an animal at bay . |
| 12 | You 're as white as a sheet . ’ |
| 13 | When I had reached the front , the first thing I saw was Granpa lying on the pavement , his head propped up on a box of apples and his face as white as a sheet . |
| 14 | and he used to come home looking as white as a sheet sick to the teeth and he used to just go to bed and collapse in a heap , he is n't strong enough to do it and it 's pointless for him to try but other than that he can do anything he fancies . |
| 15 | He lay as close as a sheet to a blanket ; and he smelt of decay , but that no longer mattered . |