Example sentences of "an [noun] [noun] and [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took the painting to Sudbury to get an expert opinion and there the signature at the bottom of the canvas was pointed out to them , that of one C. Prebble . |
| 2 | France , with a much smaller manpower than Germany ( at most some 6 million potential servicemen to Germany 's nearly 10 million ) , also employed conscription but with a different object , for the French regarded their conscripts principally as reserves for such tasks as garrison duty , while relying on the professional army of some 1 million men quickly to win an opening campaign and then the war . |
| 3 | This is followed by an overflow event and then the main event over the triangular 650 metre circuit of Wellington St. , Church St. and Mill St. Mike Bell from the Merseyside team won in 1990 , lapping all but two of the field in the process . |
| 4 | Soon after midday Tom Poole and his brother Richard decided to take their interesting visitors on a short walk to the farmhouse called Marshmills in Over Stowey , home of a large tribe of Poole cousins who were almost a second family to Tom and Richard : among them were Penelope Poole , ‘ a beautiful , dark-eyed girl ’ who would never return Tom Poole 's love for her ( he died unmarried ) , and John Poole , an Oxford fellow and later the rector of Enmore , who was Tom Poole 's friend and companion from childhood . |
| 5 | This may prove difficult when your opponent is an élite performer and so the only practical advice I can offer is to appear in lots of competitions , so you become a known face to many national referees . |
| 6 | There was the sudden achingly sweet scent of burning logs on an autumn night and then the drift of thick , crisp , beech leaves in the depths of a forest and the Beech Naiad seemed to melt and shiver and dissolve into nothing . |