Example sentences of "[coord] he [was/were] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ About half-an-hour before Paris , ’ she answered , and he was relieved when she moved on down the aisle . |
| 2 | He squared the ball into the centre where Kenny completely mis-kicked and he was relieved when the ball wobbled slowly into the empty net to put United two goals up . |
| 3 | He was lovely and he was nice but it was just the , the wrong thing was judged , right . |
| 4 | She had refused to get up , now held his legs in a hug , and her face against his thighs , turning now one cheek then the other into the material of his trousers , just below his crotch , and he was dismayed that she might smell him , that his buttoned flies , however spick — and they were freshly laundered — might carry some old aroma all the same , for he knew how bodies animate and inform even the most lifeless paraphernalia , how Maria Filippa marked her hairbrush , her pillow , her section of the wardrobe , as surely with her scent as a roe leaves spoor for a hunting dog in a forest . |
| 5 | His nose and cheekbones protruded as never before , and he was paler than Helen , so pale that no one could possibly call him a darkie or black bastard , though they might legitimately have used the word bastard . |
| 6 | The time was after eleven and he was tired but he could never sleep without reading for a few minutes at least . |
| 7 | It was a sunny and very hot day , and he was tired and monstrously fat . |
| 8 | And he was cleverer than a bag of monkeys , as his mother used to say , and would outwit them all . |
| 9 | And he was sure that the man was begging now , for he was holding out his other hand with the palm upwards ; except that then O thought that maybe the gesture had another meaning , maybe the man was extending his hand in the hope that some passer by might take it , grasp it firmly and pull him to his feet . |
| 10 | When Philip Jessup visited MacArthur in January 1950 the general stated that the Soviet Union should perceive the advantages to be derived from a Japanese treaty and he was sure that a diplomat like Jacob Malik would appreciate the position . |
| 11 | He remembered the dream where he had been riding north with Jinneth into the mountains , and he was sure that something of that figure had been Jenny . |
| 12 | rang them up and he was dearer than all the blooming builders merchants ! |
| 13 | Then I was working and my sister Mary started work and my father went out one night and he came back knocked the door and he was drunk as per usual . |
| 14 | The unlawful act was arson , and he was reckless as to the risk of injury . |
| 15 | Commander Ali said SNM ambushes had prevented supplies reaching them and he was confident that Boroma would soon fall . |
| 16 | His mother had made him take me out to see the sights and he was bored and resentful . |
| 17 | Erm I 'm amazed now when I see him on television as to how big he is , because he was n't as a youngster , and he was fragile and er we ribbed him because , in those days , you had an attache case for a school bag , and your initials were put on it . |
| 18 | ‘ And he was better than you are . |
| 19 | He did not know of the English habit of using such affectionate epithets rather haphazardly , and he was impressed that she should consider him her dear . |
| 20 | By the end of his life Blencowe 's faculties had decayed and he was convinced that he had invented longitude [ DNB , 2 , 673 ] . |
| 21 | If this Elisa woman really was Elsie — and he was convinced that she was — how he envied her . |
| 22 | From birth , he and Tyrion had shared a special link and he was convinced that if Tyrion were dead he would know . |
| 23 | Gluckman said that he had performed more than 200 post-mortems on black people who had died in detention , and he was convinced that 90 per cent of these people were killed by the police . |
| 24 | The bazaar drew nearer and nearer — and what a strange thing , McAllister thought , to be such a central part of her life , and she and Matey worked together now , in that , as in everything else , and Matey 's liking for her grew daily , for the eyes McAllister turned on him were always so full of love , and he was easy and happy with her , as he had not been since he was a boy before Africa and Angela Deverill 's betrayal . |
| 25 | He shared his pupils ' impatience with the history side but he was far too polite ever to express this prejudice in my presence — and he was pleased that there was somebody else in the department who was prepared to cover that part of the teaching . |
| 26 | He liked mechanical things and he was pleased that the chainsaw he had had to dismantle several times in the past seemed to run perfectly . |
| 27 | It 's true he had money problems and he was upset when his close friend , singer Michael Holliday , committed suicide the previous year after a marriage break-up . |
| 28 | And he was certain that the President had told her not to tell anyone where he had gone . |
| 29 | That did not prevent Somerset Maugham , in the sanctuary of a villa in the south of France , from shuddering at the private fantasy of a shaggy-haired mob seizing sudden sway in literary London — an effect , as he imagined , of the welfare state ; and he was certain that their social origins were unprecedentedly humble . |
| 30 | She was late , as she always was , and they only had about an hour and a half to talk before she had to go , and he was nervous and she looked tired though still beautiful in bright red cords , Arran jumper and tattily magnificent fur coat . |