Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adj] [coord] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his part , Corbett shrewdly watched the Frenchman and knew he was correct and so moved to close the trap . |
| 2 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |
| 3 | He was seventy and continually engaged in frenetic schemes to bolster up his old age . |
| 4 | He said he was sorry and normally obeyed all the driving rules , but this time failed to keep his eye on the speedometer as he made his way to Birmingham . |
| 5 | He was tall and stoutly built … his height just seven times the length of his own foot . |
| 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 . |
| 7 | His was undone to the waist , he had no cap , his slacks were dirty and crumpled , he was unshaven and badly needed a haircut , he wore plimsolls , loosely tied with bits of string . |
| 8 | This led to a constructive discussion in which the employee volunteered to give up his supervisory role and instead concentrate on other activities at which he was better and actually preferred . |
| 9 | It was easy to see that he was clever and well read , but he was also boring . |
| 10 | He knew that he was clever and always wanted to say his piece in meetings . |
| 11 | He had run away from his home in Chicago when he was fifteen and still bore the scars from the beating he had received at the hands of his father after his parents had discovered he was gay . |
| 12 | Young Archie was educated at the local National school until he was 14 and then apprenticed to Stephens & Sons , pioneers of the Stephens motor-car . |
| 13 | He was fifty-five and still filled with plans for a united Spain . |
| 14 | He was photophobic and always wore a pair of tinted glasses to protect his eyes . |
| 15 | He was tired and undoubtedly moved by the warmth of his welcome . |
| 16 | Sculpture , being Fine Art , he did not tackle till he was 27 and well established and then seemingly by way of therapeutic sublimation during a period of enforced sexual abstinence whilst his wife was pregnant . |
| 17 | He had little sympathy with Eileen , although he was polite and briskly reassuring . |
| 18 | He was inexperienced and little known before he was propelled into the highest office by his friends ' ambition for him and by the deadlock between Long and Chamberlain in 1911 . |
| 19 | Hunting one day , Olybrius , the grand governor of Antioch , saw her and seeing her innocence and her loveliness he was jealous and immediately wanted to destroy both . |
| 20 | He was elected to succeed Gaston Mullegg as President of FISA when he was 33 and still competing in the Swiss rowing team . |
| 21 | He was ill and below form in Australia , but has gone well in training here . |
| 22 | He was ill and below form in Australia , but has gone well in training here . |
| 23 | For seventeen , he was big and heavily built , but the man who carried him was so tall and held his weight so easily that there was no doubt who he was . |
| 24 | He was wrong and soon had to resign . |
| 25 | When he came along erm was about he was more or less asked what terms he wanted and said that he was no to show no favouritism . |
| 26 | I tried to get Dad to tell me where they 'd gone but he was tipsy and only laughed and said they 'd gone on their ‘ funnymoon ’ . |
| 27 | Stiff and cold in personal relations , he was pompous and excessively attached to the trappings of power . |
| 28 | Those who talked to Harold Macmillan at this time were sure that this cold politicking did not enter his head ; that he was sincere and only wanted to do the best that he could for the Church . |
| 29 | Canadian Arthur Thompson played until he was 103 and even equalled his age in one round that year . |
| 30 | He was thin and softly spoken and smoked an expensive cigar . |