Example sentences of "was [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was alert and neurologically normal with a Glasgow coma score of 14 on admission . |
| 2 | Her face was tranquil and still , but her eyes flashed like arrows from one face to the other , observing and remembering , before her large , creamy eyelids veiled their light . |
| 3 | The summer was tranquil and fairly uneventful ; Jonadab Oaks felt that for once , Nature was working with him instead of against him . |
| 4 | This provision was controversial and not included in the Convention . |
| 5 | But , of course , it was n't my fault that my mother was pregnant and yet for years I felt that it was . |
| 6 | She was pregnant and poorly . |
| 7 | When he was nineteen , Reza Shah decided that the Crown Princes marriage was due and so he began trawling the Middle East for the most suitable wife — from a dynastic point of view . |
| 8 | His voice was low and even . |
| 9 | His voice was low and softly timbred and Ruth wondered at such cruelty . |
| 10 | His voice was low and deep , vibrant with a hard-held patience , as if he already sensed the latent protest in the way she 'd breathed his name . |
| 11 | His voice was low and very tender . |
| 12 | Carolyn sat on the bed , which she noticed was low and very soft , and fingered the silk . |
| 13 | His own voice was low and as cold as steel . |
| 14 | The sky was low and constantly shifting as different layers of grey and black cloud were dragged around by gusty winds . |
| 15 | She now placed her large square hands on the table and leant towards him , and her voice was low and hard as she said , ‘ Well , what 's the choice ? |
| 16 | The voice was low and huskily feminine . |
| 17 | Already they knew that they were nearing the trees , for the burning Tower was low and far off . |
| 18 | The wind was strong and bitterly cold as we prepared ourselves and I tried in vain to put my boots on without leaving the car , until I cracked my forehead on someone 's ice-axe in the back seat . |
| 19 | The shikar lobby was strong and well organized and naturally argued that the tiger population was holding its own . |
| 20 | It could not be Pen , whose voice these days in all its guises was strong and most unchildlike . |
| 21 | The Kha-Khan 's voice was strong and deep . |
| 22 | Oh well the role of the police , well of course they were opposed to the strikers but there were n't er quite so many police you see and and the strike movement was strong and so the the the they did n't have a great deal of affect . |
| 23 | It was strong and deeply magical and filled with power and enchantment and with the twilit scents and the dusk-laden sounds that were part of the ancient Wolfwood . |
| 24 | The bond which had drawn them so close before Angel 's birth was strong and sometimes Sarah longed to be back for a brief time in that dilapidated house in Stone Alley , free of the sanctimonious atmosphere of the rectory , until she remembered Maggie was n't there any more either . |
| 25 | I exclude from the question of compensation the element of injury to the eye , which I feel was accidental and not due to any negligence . ’ |
| 26 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 27 | Evelyn was weak and yet strong , like bindweed . |
| 28 | He had little sympathy with Eileen , although he was polite and briskly reassuring . |
| 29 | The city was still held fast by winter and the journey was cruel and hard . |
| 30 | Most modern philosophers would say it was nonsense to say that Cruelty was cruel and only call people cruel or particular things . |