Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] and [art] [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 | But I was desperate to convince her that I was sane and the world was mad . |
| 10 | When the Beveridge report was debated in the Commons in mid-February 1943 Churchill himself was ill and the government 's case was argued by Sir Kingsley Wood , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , a Conservative , and Sir John Anderson , the Lord President , who was a former civil servant elevated to ministerial rank . |
| 11 | The famous film director from France could speak no English , and so Miranda was being sent to do the interview as well as provide the paper 's weekly caricature ; she had the address of the location , a newsagent 's in the High Street of a part of the city she had never heard mentioned before , Giblett Park , though she had lived in London most of her life ; the Press Office had said that he would give her ten minutes between takes , or more if she were lucky and the filming was going well and Jean-Claude Meursault was feeling mellow . |
| 12 | When she was two and a half , we all went on holiday in France with the two boys . |
| 13 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 14 | He thought of her as the child , though she was married and a mother . |
| 15 | He was superb but she was better and the voice coated the entire stage , the entire production with a quality never before heard in Hochhauser . |
| 16 | ‘ She was four and a half when I first saw her , ’ explained Libby . |
| 17 | Helen whispered to Sarah that it had been confirmed that she was pregnant and the baby was due in late November . |
| 18 | She felt tears blur her vision , she was weary and the grief of her father 's death hung over her like a dark cloud . |
| 19 | She was diabetic and a cause for concern . |
| 20 | Slim in her dungarees , with her long , curly , chestnut hair and wide-eyed enthusiasm , some would tell you Marcia was ‘ a little cookie ’ , but I saw someone who had the wisdom to recognise where she was happy and the courage to act on it . |
| 21 | Apart from dog sitting , she was free and a year later the two are still together ! |
| 22 | When the Sheikha heard that her son had kept me beating the tambourine all the way to Al Ain she was horrified and no amount of pleading on my part helped . |
| 23 | She was old and a snob . |
| 24 | Jessica said of Diana : ‘ She was lovely and the hug was really nice . |
| 25 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . |
| 27 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . |
| 28 | ‘ She was lively and a person who you could always talk to about your problems . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In this case we were lucky and the route had been re-equipped with new bolts placed in between the old bolts . |