Example sentences of "and [adj] as an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scowling at his broad , white-sweatered back , she followed him into a room as neat and orderly as an operating theatre . |
| 2 | In his gripping TV drama about Anthony Blunt : ‘ A Question of Attribution ’ he described the painting thus : ‘ The apostles , oblivious to all considerations but those of perspective , are fast asleep on ground as bare and brown as an end of the season goal mouth , this sleep signifying indifference . |
| 3 | ‘ He saves you from a beating with remarkable ease and skill , yet you remain as blind and dull-witted as an earthworm . |
| 4 | It was n't so much that she looked old and wrinkled ( if you could discount the gleaming white halo of hair ) since her complexion was as smooth and pink as an infant 's . |
| 5 | Amabel smiled at her now as she sat by Gemma 's bedside tranquilly embroidering a cambric handkerchief , patient and beautiful as an angel and so terribly wronged . |
| 6 | Its feet were the size of dinner platters , and its tail was as long and heavy as an oak limb . |