Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philippa , whose face was normally as radiant and untroubled as a child 's , had not stopped frowning since Lee had started talking to her that afternoon and it annoyed Conrad to see it . |
| 2 | No , twenty eight and a half 's not bad . |
| 3 | Her face was set and nervous and white as a clown 's with powder , except for her lips which were bright orange . |
| 4 | He was black and gleaming , his outline as smooth as a dolphin 's even down to the hint of rubber . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | I occasionally got ten shillings , which was more than a week 's as much a week 's wages . |
| 9 | Again the short answer is simple , but this time the other way about : because the wages paid to a " compess " , while less than a man 's , were high compared to the wages a girl could earn elsewhere . |
| 10 | Their bite is worse than a horse 's — |
| 11 | an octave higher than a blackbird 's , |
| 12 | It could be your own or a neighbour 's , or it might belong to a local business , station or pub . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Gran said , ‘ She had a lovely face , and hair as fair as a baby 's , long enough to sit on . |
| 15 | His eyes were as golden as a hawk 's , but so still and intent they awed her faintly . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This metaphor is developed in the second last line to describe the voice of the tramp as ‘ as sweet as a bird 's … ’ . |