Example sentences of "[adj] and a [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was sad and a joke and it just backfired , ’ she said . |
| 2 | I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish . |
| 3 | These are three and a half so they 'd be slightly longer . |
| 4 | well he should only be eight and a half , I mean they told us he was three and a half when he was rescued . |
| 5 | That women 's seventy and a day and she 's got the body of a young girl ! |
| 6 | thing and that 's without a pump , so to set up it 'll cost me probably a thousand and a bit and I want and then I 'll need to have the rest of the money left over to survive |
| 7 | It 's a sort of slight relaxing and an aphrodisiac and it 's supposed to help your headaches . |
| 8 | And you 're forty something and straight and divorced and celibate and a mother and I could n't have found a more complicated situation to fall in love with . |
| 9 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 10 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 11 | you 're shoe was size twelve and a half but we have to buy thirteens for trainers |
| 12 | Because from the age of seventeen to twenty nine I worked on building sites , and that got boring so I changed and I changed and became a policeman , and I ca became a policeman when I was twenty nine and a half and it 's , I 've enjoyed it ever since cos every day is interesting , every day is different , every day is unusual . |
| 13 | I did it with erm , with er , I went from one and a half and I 'm down to one , 'cos I was , I I 've tasted my father 's sometimes , 'cos he thinks two and a half , he used to take three , and I 'm like aw it 's |
| 14 | I play Elmo and he 's only two and a half so it means I can play like that . |
| 15 | I think Jeanette said Tom had that problem cos he did n't speak until he was about two and a half and they thought he was you know a bit daft |
| 16 | I 'll put it up to two and a half and it should be warm enough there . |
| 17 | Er , I I had to care for my elderly parents when my son was two and a half and I had a six month old baby and er , I would agree with the previous speaker , it certainly does change your life . |
| 18 | And of course it 'll be four and a half after it 's paid tax , you know if you 've got any tax credits from your nationalized shares , you 'll see those come through , and y you 've got the net return . |
| 19 | There 's a small bonus there at four and a half but I ask people to fix in their mind |
| 20 | ‘ She was four and a half when I first saw her , ’ explained Libby . |
| 21 | Well , wee Roderick-dhu though , he 's four and a half and she still breastfeeds him . |