Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] ever [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
2 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |
3 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
4 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
5 | Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings . |
6 | Harriet asked silently and was as far as ever from an answer . |
7 | As thin as ever without an ounce of excess fat , he had the long face and gaunt look of the true desert Arab . |