Example sentences of "was [adj] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was grim-faced and looked as if he had not slept , but he offered them freshly made coffee and raised a smile for Catherine . |
| 2 | The gates were all closed and there was a mother and a daughter who was pregnant and walking around it . |
| 3 | His voice was low and breaking with emotion . |
| 4 | Plasma renin activity was low and changed with treatment ( table ) . |
| 5 | The difference being that Laing was alive and living in London and Inner Space , while Reich had killed himself fifteen years before in the United States . |
| 6 | The Guardian of May 4 disclosed that Kurt Klebeck , the wartime deputy commander of a labour camp in the Channel Island of Alderney , was alive and living in Hamburg , contrary to earlier British intelligence claims that he had not survived the war . |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman 's response to the Budget is as empty as that of his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition , whose comments yesterday , I thought were proof positive that the Michelangelo virus was alive and operating inside the Labour party . |
| 8 | The vidscreen monitor on his desk was alive and chattering with images . |
| 9 | Here the whole filthy floor was alive and lifting with menace . |
| 10 | At p. 332 it appears to be envisaged that it will depend upon the question whether the label switching was dishonest and coupled with the other elements of the offence of theft or was due to a perverted sense of humour . |
| 11 | Other territories were to be added to the Japanese empire but some were insignificant in terms of size , and elsewhere the occupation was short-lived and constrained by the exigencies of war . |
| 12 | Human evolution was progressive and driven by intellectual ingenuity as societies invented their own adaptive solution . |
| 13 | About thirty-five , he was tall and running to fat , his once handsome features now puffed out , his stance a round-shouldered slouch . |
| 14 | She slipped into her nightie and slid into bed beside Tom , who was asleep and breathing through his mouth . |
| 15 | Every file , every data sheet on the exiles and émigrés who 'd caused trouble over the past thirty years was computerized and collated for him . |
| 16 | The track was broad and rutted with old cart-tracks . |
| 17 | Keegan said : ‘ Bjorn was terrific and adapted to the pace of the game very well . ’ |
| 18 | So great was the growth of passenger traffic in the 1920s that an already vast station was remodelled and enlarged in 1927 . |
| 19 | Grief welled into the deep-set eyes and the reply , when it came , was unsteady and uttered through tightened lips . |
| 20 | Indeed , rumours about Ruthven were rife — how he was a warlock because he was left-handed and talked to his cat . |
| 21 | The face -mask was rigid and attached by rivets , the neckguard and cheek-pieces hinged by strips of leather strengthened by bronze bars and riveted . |
| 22 | The apple room was dim and scented with a mysterious sweetness like the breakfast honey . |
| 23 | Similar experiments have been reported from the Ivory Coast by Roose ( 1986 ) who has compared runoff and erosion from several plots , one of which was deforested and maintained as a bare soil by ploughing , and others in which a variety of perennial , annual and tree crops were grown . |
| 24 | Up the short avenue to the Hogans ' house ; the ground was wet and covered with leaves . |
| 25 | My passport was wet and creased from where I had lain on it all night ; but it was there . |
| 26 | The crypt was damp and smelled of the occupation of the past six nights . |
| 27 | Ellis , who was unemployed and living on benefit , hit upon the idea that the girl should go out to work as a prostitute , it was claimed . |
| 28 | A few years ago Glen Robins was unemployed and living from hand to mouth . |
| 29 | The right hand was high and rested on a vertical spear , the left is on the hip . |
| 30 | She was careful and troubled about many things . |