Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] [coord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some trepidation did exist therefore on this occasion but I was fortunate and the MV Brendan had only to negotiate a slight swell on its way past Eriskay to South Uist . |
| 2 | When I was eighteen and a half I was let out , but I think I got institutionalised being there three and a half years , and I wanted to stay there . |
| 3 | I was innocent but the evidence was damning . ’ |
| 4 | ( I was four and a half years on the Western Front as a stretcher bearer ) and only one of the worst cases who had it and lived through it . |
| 5 | I was four and a half years old and I was about to start Bedfield Primary School . |
| 6 | And then I was four and a half year in Sanday . |
| 7 | ‘ My father bought the estate before the war for the milk , not ever intending to go there , but then when the war came we lived there , from about 1942 when I was four and the first things I remember in life were from there . ’ |
| 8 | Fifteen and a half Er well no I was nineteen and a half then you see , five years is n't it . |
| 9 | ‘ After my father died , when I was five and a half , she used to make me bath myself all alone . |
| 10 | I did a dreadful thing , the worst thing of my life , when I was twelve and a half years old , or I feel that I did , and nothing can change it … ’ |
| 11 | I was 38 and an acting deputy head when I had twins . |
| 12 | " I was 11 and a half stone ( 160lb/73kg ) when I began the WNAS diet . |
| 13 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 14 | In 1954 I was eight and every Saturday morning I would set off to the movies with my first boyfriend , ten year old Skippy . |
| 15 | I started school to er Bowvale School on Dovecote Lane at Eastwood , when I was two and a half . |
| 16 | Maybe I was lackadaisical and a bit self-indulgent . |
| 17 | I was six and a half years the , the minister of Whalsay and Skerries where the first er centre h ha has been built and there was rejoicing in that community that the that social responsibility had been invited by the council to join in this work . |
| 18 | One minute I was happy and the next I was depressed . |
| 19 | Having looked at my passport , the Gendarme made a telephone call during which he turned to look at me , spelling out my name and saying that I was English and a former paratrooper . |
| 20 | I was disconcerted but the fascination with the film went on . |
| 21 | Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time . |
| 22 | I first started when I was seven and a half . |
| 23 | But I was desperate to convince her that I was sane and the world was mad . |
| 24 | My parents kept a baby book about me until I was sixteen , and when I was three and a half they wrote : ‘ Takes a great interest in her clothes and chooses her own outfit each morning . |
| 25 | Margaret , you see , cos Gerry used to behave as if , his was sub-standard and a professional |
| 26 | When the Beveridge report was debated in the Commons in mid-February 1943 Churchill himself was ill and the government 's case was argued by Sir Kingsley Wood , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , a Conservative , and Sir John Anderson , the Lord President , who was a former civil servant elevated to ministerial rank . |
| 27 | I carried Emily — she was one and a half years old then . |
| 28 | When she was two and a half , we all went on holiday in France with the two boys . |
| 29 | More human than she 'd looked all morning , he thought , realizing he had taken against his witness at least partly because she was alive and the amusing , lively , feminine creature that had been Angela Morgan was not . |
| 30 | She was approached by talking book company chief Clive Stanhope who tells me : ‘ I met Julie when she was in rep in the 60s in a comedy called The City Madam — she was marvellous but the play has n't been performed since . ’ |