Example sentences of "[was/were] tall [conj] [adv] build " in BNC.

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1 Kebbel was tall and powerfully built , his somewhat heavy features tending to coarseness with middle age .
2 He was tall and stoutly built … his height just seven times the length of his own foot .
3 He would be in his early fifties , was tall and well built with a craggy face .
4 I tested the springs as best I could , but I weighed under seven stone and Otto was tall and well built .
5 She was tall and generously built and fair , with a high colour and a red mouth and white teeth .
6 He was tall and stolidly built , giving an impression of shambling clumsiness until one saw him working in a confined space when he would seem physically to contract and become compact , even graceful , moving about the body with the lightness and precision of a cat .
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