Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was fourteen years old , blind and hardly able to walk , but they had grown much attached to him and could hardly endure the thought of his death . |
| 2 | He was fourteen years older than Jeanne , barely able to support himself , let alone a wife , a weakling unfit for army service , a bohemian , a drunk and , worst of all , a Jew . |
| 3 | And at last , in June 1172 , when he was fourteen years old , the great day came when Richard was formally installed as Duke of Aquitaine . |
| 4 | Although he was fourteen years younger than Alexander , Daniel too was in the habit of thinking of himself as a survivor , a battered and grizzled survivor . |
| 5 | He was fourteen years old , intelligent , forceful , capable of listening attentively to his ministers and then overruling them and going his own way , capable , even , or so they said , of arguing a case strenuously and sensibly against the king himself in Westminster , though he seldom won his way there ; but he was still a boy , unpractised , with little experience yet of living . |
| 6 | It all started when he was eleven months old . |
| 7 | But he was eleven years older and a father of two — surely he would not take up arms ? |
| 8 | Born in 1906 , he was eleven years younger than Leavis but far more precocious , and spent his early teaching life , as a pupil and disciple of his Cambridge mentor I. A. Richards , in the Far East . |
| 9 | He 's been playing since he was eleven years old and even now scores regularly for his team . |
| 10 | He was 68 years old . |
| 11 | He was 68 years old . |
| 12 | He was 68 years old in the early months of 1918 , when the experience of living through an air-raid proved too much for his system and he suffered a stroke . |
| 13 | He was sixty-eight years old and had suffered from cancer of the oesophagus for some time . |
| 14 | However , disaster struck when he was 11 years old . |
| 15 | He was 56 years old and was heading for his magnificent home in Warwickshire , Kenilworth Castle . |
| 16 | He was polishing glasses and he held them up to the light to check them and thereby seemed to be ignoring Maidstone completely . |
| 17 | He was five minutes early . |
| 18 | He was five minutes early , but she was already there , conspicuous in the red dress which was too tight for her . |
| 19 | He was five feet five inches tall and just as wide , with a face that resembled the rough end of an oak beam . |
| 20 | He 'd roar with laughter , I suppose , and then ask me what was all this about ‘ little ’ , and we 'd get into some absurd argument about whether he was five feet two or five feet four , end up reviling and swearing at and abusing each other in utter good humour as we used to do often several times a week on the ‘ phone . |
| 21 | Well , he was five feet ten tall and five feet wide , or thereabouts . |
| 22 | Why were they all treating him as if he was five years old . |
| 23 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 24 | Imported by Clara Hurley and Michael Grossman , when he was five years old and already a Dutch and Belgian champion , he gained his title taking a Best in Show along the way . |
| 25 | Mother took him for lessons on the violin when he was five years old . |
| 26 | When he was five years old he lost his guide when out riding ; frightened by the ‘ horrid imaginations ’ conjured up by the inscription in the turf , he saw a pool , a beacon , and a woman . |
| 27 | yeah he was five years old he was |
| 28 | He was five years older than Minton and watched critically as Minton suppressed his intelligence in order to get on with his Circus which sometimes included boys of adolescent mentality . |
| 29 | When he stepped on to the seventh tee he was five shots clear of all challengers and the title was safely under lock and key . |
| 30 | In the PGA Championship at Inverness , he was four strokes in front of Bob Tway with only nine holes to play — and still lost , Tway holing from a bunker on the final green for a birdie . |