Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( 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 . |
| 3 | I was four and a half years old and I was about to start Bedfield Primary School . |
| 4 | And then I was four and a half year in Sanday . |
| 5 | Fifteen and a half Er well no I was nineteen and a half then you see , five years is n't it . |
| 6 | ‘ After my father died , when I was five and a half , she used to make me bath myself all alone . |
| 7 | 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 … ’ |
| 8 | " I was 11 and a half stone ( 160lb/73kg ) when I began the WNAS diet . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | I started school to er Bowvale School on Dovecote Lane at Eastwood , when I was two and a half . |
| 11 | Maybe I was lackadaisical and a bit self-indulgent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time . |
| 15 | I first started when I was seven and a half . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Margaret , you see , cos Gerry used to behave as if , his was sub-standard and a professional |
| 18 | I carried Emily — she was one and a half years old then . |
| 19 | When she was two and a half , we all went on holiday in France with the two boys . |
| 20 | She was tired and a little afraid . |
| 21 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 22 | He thought of her as the child , though she was married and a mother . |
| 23 | A MUM today hugged the new-born baby she feared might might have been injured in a hit and run car crash when she was eight and a half months pregnant . |
| 24 | ‘ She was four and a half when I first saw her , ’ explained Libby . |
| 25 | She was diabetic and a cause for concern . |
| 26 | She was German and a right pain . |
| 27 | She was apyrexial and a maculopapular rash was present on her arms . |
| 28 | Apart from dog sitting , she was free and a year later the two are still together ! |
| 29 | She was old and a snob . |
| 30 | She was looking-tired and a little sad . |