Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adj] and [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inspector and I were silent and inwardly praised God . |
| 2 | I was young and easily impressed , so when I saw her in the West Indies , beautiful and elegantly dressed , I thought I loved her . |
| 3 | ‘ He left my mother when I was four and never gave her a penny after that . ’ |
| 4 | I tell you I was flabbergasted and right terrified out of my wits . |
| 5 | I was relaxed and much recovered when a nomad appeared from behind a crag fifty yards away and looked down on me . |
| 6 | Maybe they both happened at once but from that moment everything was dreamlike and wonderful , I lost count of time as I sat there while the breathing became deep and regular and the animal began to he aware of his surroundings ; and by the time he started to look around him and twitch his tail tentatively I realized suddenly that I was stiff-jointed and almost frozen to the spot . |
| 7 | Said one : ‘ I lied about my birth but I realised I was different and always coming top of the class did not help . ’ |
| 8 | Yes , I could stay the night , as I was homeless and compulsorily brought here , but in the morning , as I was over twenty-five , I must report to the billeting Officer . |
| 9 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 10 | I was 19 and still studying at RADA when I made my first TV appearance . |
| 11 | If I may say so very well councillor and you were specific and indeed backed up the particular figures , even though of course one is entitled to the that I thought it was fair and well argued . |
| 12 | I know you said you were extra and then going to freezer shop or summat . |
| 13 | She heard you were pregnant and then told us that she was . |
| 14 | Her ankle was aching badly and she was hot and very fed up . |
| 15 | Phyllisia found friendship in someone who was the opposite to Marian — Edith , she was poor and therefore dressed in scruffy clothes , she had gone against her father 's orders of never to see Edith again . |
| 16 | She was tall and generously built and fair , with a high colour and a red mouth and white teeth . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She was tall and beautifully groomed with iron-grey hair , a smooth , high-cheekboned face and a most intimidating manner . |
| 19 | She was young and well dressed . |
| 20 | John Berger believes it raises more questions than meet the eye Photograph of Pollock in his studio by Hans Namuth The suicide of art Pollock and Lee Krasner : when they first met she was 34 and better known as an artist than he was . |
| 21 | When she first met Pollock she was 34 and better known as an artist than he was . |
| 22 | In her haste she was clumsy and only succeeded in pushing the loaf of Dinkum bread and the sandwich off the table and on to the floor , already sticky from the sugar . |
| 23 | There were times when the ministry of her Son left her feeling cut out of the action , and she was amazed and perhaps frightened at what she had unleashed on the world . |
| 24 | As it was rumoured amongst the Girls that horsemeat was served , she was unadventurous and always stuck to a monotonous diet of egg and chips . |
| 25 | She was disconcerted and then enthralled by Lenny Bruce 's spitfire monologues , his explosive mix of four-letter words and Yiddishisms which hit at the gut of hypocrisies . |
| 26 | On the other , the only memory was that I had chosen as my lodgings , from the Equity good-digs book , an establishment under the auspices of a Madam somebody or other , under the mistaken impression that she was French and therefore bound to produce the most delicious cuisine for which her country was rightly famous . |
| 27 | She was shrewd and quite calculating even then . |
| 28 | I had a phone call to Israel the other night and somebody who is very experienced in stress prevention , but still she was afraid and just finding out how isolated those kind of , you know , how isolated they 're feeling out there , the fear of the chemical warfare , and maybe now I 'm able to write to her to reduce some of that isolation . |
| 29 | As a photographer , she was unique and sometimes terrifying in her decision to publicly share her experience as victim of the social discourses of the family , health and the law . |
| 30 | She was bright-eyed and faintly flushed . |