Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] and a [noun] " 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 | There was melancholy and a feeling in the air of being cheated . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | ‘ It was sad and a joke and it just backfired , ’ she said . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | The place was run down , but Jane decided on it because it was beautiful and a bargain . |
27 | But if yo , if it was bitter and a bit of lemonade it would drink it , nothing else . |
28 | Gustave met Mme Schlesinger at Trouville : he was fourteen and a half , she twenty-six . |
29 | To tell me he would , she would come when he was four and a quarter . |
30 | The fact that he was black and a Tory gave him a value out of proportion to his contribution to the local Party , so he was frequently trotted out at functions , and encouraged to ask questions of visiting speakers . |