Example sentences of "[adj] as a [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw not Alina , but something with eyes of blazing green ; her hair a long mane strewn with weeds , her dress a dripping shroud , her teeth sharp , her skin pale and scaly as a snake 's . |
| 2 | He kneeled in prayer between her thighs , his face cruel as an angel 's . |
| 3 | Henrietta dived into the pool and her head emerged , neat and glossy as a seal 's . |
| 4 | The landscape is as simple , naive and charming as a child 's painting . |
| 5 | He looked hurt when she did n't join him , his emotions transparent as a child 's . |
| 6 | A tall and awkward body and yet light as a child 's . |
| 7 | The little man nodded his bald head , his eyes simple as a child 's . |
| 8 | A thin wedge of what looked like mud caked between the heel and the sole of the left shoe ; the pattern of blood stiffening the fine fawn cashmere of the sweater ; the half-open mouth fixed in a rictus between a smile and a sneer ; the dead eyes seeming as he watched to shrink into their sockets ; the left hand with its long pale fingers , curved and delicate as a girl 's ; the palm of the right hand thick with blood . |
| 9 | Tuning of a viola , in this forest delicate as an owl 's ear , |
| 10 | face haggard as a grandfather 's |
| 11 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 12 | His voice was hoarse as a raven 's croak . |
| 13 | Shiny as a coalman 's sack , |
| 14 | Fangs fine as a lady 's needle and bright . |
| 15 | She had fine , white skin , not opaque and dull , but translucent and bright , with the vivid come-and-go of vibrant blood close beneath it ; and she had beautiful hair , fine as an infant 's and black as jet , curving but not curling about a very shapely head , and cropped cunningly to underline the subtlety of the shaping . |
| 16 | The lounge is grey , cosy as a doctor 's waiting room . |
| 17 | Within days of moving up he assumed a Farmer Giles accent , extra-shapeless trousers ( nothing is so sexless as an Englishman 's trousers ) , broken boots ( ‘ They do n't just let water in , they suck it in , ’ he said proudly ) , and most important , a bucket hat , of which he had a whole series . |
| 18 | His cheeks were round and innocent as a choir-boy 's . |
| 19 | When Lalage , neat as a Nannie 's child in her blue Viyella dressing-gown , had darted off to the bathroom , Nicandra , for the present absolved from her duties as friend and hostess , wound up her gramophone and , as she undressed , surged and swooned pleasantly to the heart-breaking cadences of the Caprice Viennois . |
| 20 | The tin is pock-marked as a Pakistani 's cheek . |
| 21 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 22 | It would be the earliest , thongs milk-white and small as a baby 's fingers , were even now draining on toast . |
| 23 | Spring leaves of pure sap green silver-haired as a child 's arm . |
| 24 | The good eye was green as a cat 's . |
| 25 | The housekeeper showed them into an antechamber bleak as a dentist 's waiting-room . |
| 26 | The pipes wailed and squealed into life , then caught their air to fill the room with a martial sound as the company , two by two and slow as an army 's progress up a country road , went in to supper . |
| 27 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 28 | Glossy surfers ' hair , eyes blue as a robin 's egg and a dreamy far-off ocean at dawn . |
| 29 | Her stomach and oviduct do not have muscles which can contract and so expel her young as a mammal 's womb has . |
| 30 | The earwig is not immediately recognisable as a gardener 's friend , and has been known to damage fruit . |