Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] be the colour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair was the colour of sand , flat and smooth around her head . |
| 2 | Her skin looked luminous , her hair was the colour of the pale amber beads Aunt Emily always wore because she said they helped her rheumatism . |
| 3 | Her skin was the colour of thick , pale cream of the kind that often accompanies that particular shade of dark red hair . |
| 4 | Her room is the colour of russet apples . |
| 5 | ‘ Hey , look … a wolf , ’ enthuses the tiniest , whose hair is the colour of carrots . |
| 6 | He plunged down for an interminable second , arms and legs splayed out in abandon , forgotten , tumbling anyhow , and crashed onto the stage on his back , lying across Bothwell , whose cloak was the colour of blood . |
| 7 | The page was a Y'frike , a boy of ten or eleven years of age , whose skin was the colour of roasted ch'ban grounds . |
| 8 | He came from Ethiopia , and his skin was the colour of glistening wet coal except for the palms of his hands , which were sandy pale , and the whites of his eyes , which twinkled like sunshine on fresh clean snow . |
| 9 | His hair was the colour of spun gold , and two body slaves were doing their best to comb it out so that it could be braided . |
| 10 | His face was the colour of a new cricket ball ; a small graze on his top lip being the only vestige of his controversial shaving injury . |
| 11 | His face was the colour of café au lait left standing overnight . |
| 12 | The boy was barely conscious now ; his face was the colour of tallow candles and his body sagged , held only in position by the crimson lights . |
| 13 | His face was the colour of tallow and blood and saliva ran down his chin and the two Renascians saw that his lips were bitten to shreds . |
| 14 | What importance is the colour of his attire when at the end of many a day the master and his bullying gang 's regalia will all doubtless be red with the blood of the helpless abused fox . |
| 15 | and your hair is the colour of and you dye your hair . |
| 16 | Often the most difficult thing to decide about your bathroom is the colour of the sanitaryware . |