Example sentences of "and he was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fagin was the only other person in the room , and he was boiling coffee in a pan . |
| 2 | His name was Edward Blake and he was nineteen years old — really grown up ! |
| 3 | He come at me and he was six foot two and he come he were gon na knock hell out of me so I had to protect myself and we got fighting in the shop . |
| 4 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 5 | There had in fact only been one occasion during those last years that Lewis could remember and he was sure Adam had only gone because there had been a promise of some shooting . |
| 6 | Dadda he had told , though even to him he had given only a vague location , but he had n't said a word to his grandmother and he was sure Peter would n't have told Uncle Leonard and Auntie Midge . |
| 7 | And he was sure Blanche shared his opinion : she was squinting at the TV presenter as if she were a small but fascinating object in a museum . |
| 8 | Dexter , and he was sure Blanche as well , was left wondering whether Pargeter believed what she was saying . |
| 9 | So he made up a bed in the front of the byre there , and he was sixteen year in it . |
| 10 | Grant 's heart leapt into his mouth and he was convinced Larsen was going to lose his nerve , then his grip on the rope , to plummet down to an unthinkable death . |
| 11 | His name was Francis , and he was one year younger than me . |
| 12 | Gary had it that 's four and he went up and he was one place |
| 13 | And Mr Fry was floating out there in the mistiness , and he was busy wallpapering too but he 'd got the paper in a mess — he 'd put the paste on it and picked it up paste side nearest and it was sticking to him . |
| 14 | Not with the head injuries , no , it was a group of the and he was coming out of the just coming out some pub down in Conasquay and he was these lads were all singing , apparently this is what happened anyway , they were all singing and you know making merry and he said , what are you all so cheerful about or something ? |
| 15 | It was Peter 's birthday , and he was ten years old . |
| 16 | Walton describes a dramatic scene at Wilton , the seat of the head of the Herbert family , the Earl of Pembroke , when the King and court were there : the Earl offered George the presentation to the living of Bemerton nearby ; his expressions of unworthiness to undertake a cure of souls were peremptorily overruled as sinful by Bishop Laud ; a tailor was summoned to make his canonical clothes , and he was ordained priest and inducted as Vicar of Bemerton next day . |
| 17 | Isabel was John 's second wife and he was 54 years of age when they married . |
| 18 | He could not explain it , but his putting had gone to pieces for the past few months and he was missing shots which formerly he would have holed with ease . |