Example sentences of "he was [adv] [adj] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | But herein lay his greatest distress at this moment : he was utterly unable to name and fix on a place . ’ |
| 2 | On the pitch he was practically impossible to replace and I 'm sure all this contributed to the pressure bearing down on Dalglish in those last months . |
| 3 | He was also able to meet and fight along with his relatives , Otto von Freising , Henry Jasomirgott , Henry , Bishop of Ratisbon , and Vladislav , Duke of Bohemia . |
| 4 | He had found his kingdom , and though it filled him with Adamistic yearning , he was somehow powerless to enter and possess it , Why was this ? |
| 5 | He was always willing to acknowledge and incorporate authoritative information and appreciated how Douglas had carefully surveyed the growth of this commodity in the Saffron Walden area between 1723 and 1728 . |
| 6 | Though Will was distracted by crowds and other outside influences , he was very quick to learn and Trish felt that he had the makings of a dressage horse . |
| 7 | graces could be an embarrassment , for he had no polite small-talk and did not pretend to any ; his visits to Windsor were an ordeal for guest and hosts alike , to him because he disliked formality and to his hosts because he was so difficult to entertain and because he did not mince words with the King . |
| 8 | On some cases yes because I was always told this man he that used to come and he was so clean looking and that he was a barber . |
| 9 | Above all he was now able to prepare and publish the Prayer Book of 1549 and its revised version of 1552 . |
| 10 | For a few seconds he was too shocked to speak and Rebecque assumed that the silence merely expressed Sharpe 's horror at being ordered to a ball , but then the Rifleman exploded with his news . |
| 11 | He was too tired to probe and Cranston too drunk . |
| 12 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 13 | The problem was , he was too lazy to try and stop being lazy , |
| 14 | Are you telling me that after finding Angy 's body he was too scared to stay and call the police but still found the nerve to go rummaging around her flat ? ’ |