Example sentences of "[coord] he [was/were] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Fagin was the only other person in the room , and he was boiling coffee in a pan . |
2 | He come at me and he was six foot two and he come he were gon na knock hell out of me so I had to protect myself and we got fighting in the shop . |
3 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
4 | So he made up a bed in the front of the byre there , and he was sixteen year in it . |
5 | His name was Francis , and he was one year younger than me . |
6 | Gary had it that 's four and he went up and he was one place |
7 | And Mr Fry was floating out there in the mistiness , and he was busy wallpapering too but he 'd got the paper in a mess — he 'd put the paste on it and picked it up paste side nearest and it was sticking to him . |
8 | Walton describes a dramatic scene at Wilton , the seat of the head of the Herbert family , the Earl of Pembroke , when the King and court were there : the Earl offered George the presentation to the living of Bemerton nearby ; his expressions of unworthiness to undertake a cure of souls were peremptorily overruled as sinful by Bishop Laud ; a tailor was summoned to make his canonical clothes , and he was ordained priest and inducted as Vicar of Bemerton next day . |
9 | Cullam and he were both lorry drivers , both lived in council accommodation , but that was all they had in common . |
10 | But he was one step ahead of her . |
11 | ‘ … the guy called me the minute he got back to his office and he said : ‘ Mo do you agree with me that judge was as wet as hell ? ’ and I said : ‘ If you so say but he was sure swimming in the right pool . ’ |
12 | She wanted to talk to him in a way she had never wanted to talk to anyone before , but he was next door , not here . |
13 | The methods he used then had altered little over the years , but he was aware change was in the air . |
14 | The Emperor , in sorrow rather than anger , deplored the perversity of the Parisians , but he was enough man of the world to know that gratitude is a scarce commodity , and the Parisian populace , professionally sceptic , had no regard for Imperial philanthropy . |