Example sentences of "his face be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His face was the colour of café au lait left standing overnight . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And his face was the face of the hawk as it stoops , and the face of the shrew as the hawk stoops . |
| 6 | The one notable feature in his face were the eyes ; they were brilliant blue , recognised as the colour of gentians by those who had travelled to the Swiss mountains in summer . |