Example sentences of "[was/were] tall [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were tall and straight , their branches covered with clusters of fine blue-green leaves shaped like needles . |
| 2 | Kebbel was tall and powerfully built , his somewhat heavy features tending to coarseness with middle age . |
| 3 | He was tall and stoutly built … his height just seven times the length of his own foot . |
| 4 | He was tall and reasonably good-looking , with a slightly sad , very reserved look which could melt into a charming smile , so intimate that it unbalanced almost any girl he cared to direct it at . |
| 5 | He was tall and badly shaven , his raincoat collar turned up against the cold of the December night . |
| 6 | He was tall and rather deaf , an unselfconscious eccentric , with a great appetite for work . |
| 7 | He would be in his early fifties , was tall and well built with a craggy face . |
| 8 | I tested the springs as best I could , but I weighed under seven stone and Otto was tall and well built . |
| 9 | She was tall and generously made , and her clothes were self-effacing — this morning a faintly nautical look , a square-necked navy cotton sweater and a white skirt . |
| 10 | She was tall and generously built and fair , with a high colour and a red mouth and white teeth . |
| 11 | Bruno was tall and naturally pale ; more so now because he was also very frightened . |
| 12 | Rupert introduced Dr Everard Bone , who was tall and fair-rather good-looking in an austere way , she decided . |
| 13 | She was tall and beautifully groomed with iron-grey hair , a smooth , high-cheekboned face and a most intimidating manner . |
| 14 | 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 . |