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 . |