Example sentences of "was [adj] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice was low and softly timbred and Ruth wondered at such cruelty . |
| 2 | The sky was low and constantly shifting as different layers of grey and black cloud were dragged around by gusty winds . |
| 3 | Now bearing in mind what we were saying about exchange rates before the break , if the pound was strong that obviously implied that people wanted to buy sterling , but what goods did they want to buy off us ? |
| 4 | The shikar lobby was strong and well organized and naturally argued that the tiger population was holding its own . |
| 5 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 6 | ‘ I wanted something that was melodic but yet did n't sound like any conventional grouping of instruments . |
| 7 | He had little sympathy with Eileen , although he was polite and briskly reassuring . |
| 8 | Most modern philosophers would say it was nonsense to say that Cruelty was cruel and only call people cruel or particular things . |
| 9 | As a trainer , I have found that the brightest learners ( and the best , funniest and most communicative partners ) were not domestic horses , whose natural ability has been stunted , but wild ones in which the capacity for learning and communicating was rich and well developed . |
| 10 | It was poorly and sparsely furnished ; a brave effort had been made to keep it tidy and clean . |
| 11 | After 87 minutes Luton 's woe was complete as Sharp headed in a cross from Bernard , who had just been denied by another splendid stop from Chamberlain . |
| 12 | This exhibition was solid and well produced , the images drifting through concocted tales of the artist 's imaginings . |
| 13 | It was strange and horribly unsettling to have such violently opposing feelings about a person . |
| 14 | He was occasionally to be seen wandering through the house in his cream linen jacket , college tie — Gonville and Caius , you were meant to know — and flat cap ( in our house a flat cap would have been common ; here it was posh and probably indicated that you used to go beagling ) . |
| 15 | Madeleine left them alone after a while , and at first Grégoire was shy and hardly spoke . |
| 16 | Kebbel was tall and powerfully built , his somewhat heavy features tending to coarseness with middle age . |
| 17 | He was tall and stoutly built … his height just seven times the length of his own foot . |
| 18 | He would be in his early fifties , was tall and well built with a craggy face . |
| 19 | I tested the springs as best I could , but I weighed under seven stone and Otto was tall and well built . |
| 20 | She was tall and generously made , and her clothes were self-effacing — this morning a faintly nautical look , a square-necked navy cotton sweater and a white skirt . |
| 21 | She was tall and generously built and fair , with a high colour and a red mouth and white teeth . |
| 22 | She was tall and beautifully groomed with iron-grey hair , a smooth , high-cheekboned face and a most intimidating manner . |
| 23 | He was tall and stolidly built , giving an impression of shambling clumsiness until one saw him working in a confined space when he would seem physically to contract and become compact , even graceful , moving about the body with the lightness and precision of a cat . |
| 24 | Adam lived as far away from the parental home as was possible while still living in north London . |
| 25 | He was fifty-five and still filled with plans for a united Spain . |
| 26 | Wednesday could tell Endill was upset and eventually persuaded him to explain why . |
| 27 | He said he was sorry and normally obeyed all the driving rules , but this time failed to keep his eye on the speedometer as he made his way to Birmingham . |
| 28 | The forest to the south of the Swamp was hilly and comparatively open . |
| 29 | This charming villa was spacious and comfortably furnished with a well-stocked library ; the large garden ran down to the lake where there was both a motor boat and a sailing boat . |
| 30 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |