Example sentences of "was [adj] and [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice was low and softly timbred and Ruth wondered at such cruelty . |
| 2 | The sky was low and constantly shifting as different layers of grey and black cloud were dragged around by gusty winds . |
| 3 | The shikar lobby was strong and well organized and naturally argued that the tiger population was holding its own . |
| 4 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 5 | He had little sympathy with Eileen , although he was polite and briskly reassuring . |
| 6 | Most modern philosophers would say it was nonsense to say that Cruelty was cruel and only call people cruel or particular things . |
| 7 | As a trainer , I have found that the brightest learners ( and the best , funniest and most communicative partners ) were not domestic horses , whose natural ability has been stunted , but wild ones in which the capacity for learning and communicating was rich and well developed . |
| 8 | It was poorly and sparsely furnished ; a brave effort had been made to keep it tidy and clean . |
| 9 | This exhibition was solid and well produced , the images drifting through concocted tales of the artist 's imaginings . |
| 10 | It was strange and horribly unsettling to have such violently opposing feelings about a person . |
| 11 | He was occasionally to be seen wandering through the house in his cream linen jacket , college tie — Gonville and Caius , you were meant to know — and flat cap ( in our house a flat cap would have been common ; here it was posh and probably indicated that you used to go beagling ) . |
| 12 | Madeleine left them alone after a while , and at first Grégoire was shy and hardly spoke . |
| 13 | Kebbel was tall and powerfully built , his somewhat heavy features tending to coarseness with middle age . |
| 14 | He was tall and stoutly built … his height just seven times the length of his own foot . |
| 15 | He would be in his early fifties , was tall and well built with a craggy face . |
| 16 | I tested the springs as best I could , but I weighed under seven stone and Otto was tall and well built . |
| 17 | She was tall and generously made , and her clothes were self-effacing — this morning a faintly nautical look , a square-necked navy cotton sweater and a white skirt . |
| 18 | She was tall and generously built and fair , with a high colour and a red mouth and white teeth . |
| 19 | She was tall and beautifully groomed with iron-grey hair , a smooth , high-cheekboned face and a most intimidating manner . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was fifty-five and still filled with plans for a united Spain . |
| 22 | Wednesday could tell Endill was upset and eventually persuaded him to explain why . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The forest to the south of the Swamp was hilly and comparatively open . |
| 25 | This charming villa was spacious and comfortably furnished with a well-stocked library ; the large garden ran down to the lake where there was both a motor boat and a sailing boat . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In an adjournment debate in the Commons earlier this month , Mr Hood claimed that Mr Muncie 's ‘ luck ran out ’ for his favourite method of investigation — deciding who was guilty and then gathering evidence to prove it . |
| 28 | was round-faced and always smiling |
| 29 | On the other , the only memory was that I had chosen as my lodgings , from the Equity good-digs book , an establishment under the auspices of a Madam somebody or other , under the mistaken impression that she was French and therefore bound to produce the most delicious cuisine for which her country was rightly famous . |
| 30 | His bare chest was bronzed and lightly coated with dark hair , darker than that on his head . |