Example sentences of "his face was the " in BNC.

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1 His face was the usual grey colour , his mouth was open and his eyes were staring upwards .
2 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 .
3 His face was the same colour as that of the King when the royal cohort arrived from the palace .
4 His face was the colour of café au lait left standing overnight .
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 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 .
7 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 .
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