Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen and a half Er well no I was nineteen and a half then you see , five years is n't it . |
| 2 | ‘ After my father died , when I was five and a half , she used to make me bath myself all alone . |
| 3 | " I was 11 and a half stone ( 160lb/73kg ) when I began the WNAS diet . |
| 4 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 5 | I started school to er Bowvale School on Dovecote Lane at Eastwood , when I was two and a half . |
| 6 | Maybe I was lackadaisical and a bit self-indulgent . |
| 7 | Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time . |
| 8 | I first started when I was seven and a half . |
| 9 | When she was two and a half , we all went on holiday in France with the two boys . |
| 10 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 11 | He thought of her as the child , though she was married and a mother . |
| 12 | ‘ She was four and a half when I first saw her , ’ explained Libby . |
| 13 | She was diabetic and a cause for concern . |
| 14 | Apart from dog sitting , she was free and a year later the two are still together ! |
| 15 | She was old and a snob . |
| 16 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . |
| 18 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . |
| 19 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . |
| 20 | He would have turned down millions if the woman had been ugly or ill-bred or disagreeable He liked Anna ; he thought she was charming and a credit to himself , and he meant to look after her . |
| 21 | The girl , who was new but a Berliner , was even so a little shocked . |
| 22 | The house itself was 1914 or a bit earlier , steeply pitched slate roofs and high chimneys : bijou Lutyens for the leaner purse . |
| 23 | There was melancholy and a feeling in the air of being cheated . |
| 24 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 25 | Well , it had n't changed much , except that it was bigger and a lot of schoolboys were apparently prancing round the sacred portals of Pierremont House . |
| 26 | ‘ It was sad and a joke and it just backfired , ’ she said . |
| 27 | It was tiny but a reminder that there are still poisonous snakes in the region — a fact which is all too easy to forget . |
| 28 | He was killed by a needle-like instrument ( punctured wound the report says , but it was four and a quarter inches deep ) going into his kidney , renal artery , peritoneum and loop of jejunem . |
| 29 | I did wonder if it was a nightmare because it 's so vivid … have you ever had something you remember from your childhood which was so horrible and awful that you 're not quite sure whether it was real or a nightmare ? |
| 30 | Er like one ounce has gone and we talked to some people who have tried it it was alright but a bit gakky at times |