Example sentences of "was and [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was rather a loveless heart , the guts were dagging , and the cunt was the driest coldest and most shrivelled of cunts , if indeed cunt it was and not an asshole in disguise .
2 He smiles at his wife lovingly and she reaches across and pats his hand , loving him for what he was and not the stranger he has become .
3 The Ben is quite a different place in winter , equally as magnificent , but free from Pac-o-macs , folding aluminium chairs , and people who want to know who Benjamin Nevis was and why the mountain is named after him .
4 I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two .
5 I told him that I was and suddenly the ice was broken .
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