Example sentences of "and a [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is constructed of plasterwork with inlaid wood and a window and a door , which have been introduced to form the background . |
| 2 | had a law and a name and a theory . |
| 3 | It is offering its 3,000 employees over the age of 50 a voluntary early retirement programme under which they will get full retirement benefits and a year and a half of extra pay if they leave the company and start their own companies in businesses related to IBM . |
| 4 | Nine thousand , three hundred and thirty one sorties and a year and a half later , you flew your last mission on the twentieth of April , nineteen forty five , from this field . |
| 5 | But Philip Burton was a proven scholar and a writer and an opener of doors thought slammed shut forever in the face of a hungry and rough Welsh Jenkins . |
| 6 | The petition must contain a statement that the petitioner , that is , the debtor , is unable to pay his debts and a request that a bankruptcy order be made against him ( r 6.39(1) ) . |
| 7 | Wanting someone , like he wanted Kelly Connor , was no novelty to Jack — hardly a day passed when it did n't happen to him — but a quick telephone call and a Suzi or a Debra , one of his sexual Samaritans , would be there to make it feel better . |
| 8 | THE Institute 's attractions included a billiard room and a bathroom where a hot or cold shower cost 4d , and quickly proved so popular the building was overwhelmed . |
| 9 | A liar and a thief and a rogue , but what this world has made him , and sweet as he can be false . |
| 10 | Angie and I would ride around in a scarlet limo with a television in the back and a bar and a huge 20 stone black guy as our bodyguard in the front . |
| 11 | They also had a bedroom , and a kitchen and a bathroom — all poor little rooms . |
| 12 | There 's one bedroom and a living room and a kitchen and a bathroom and it 's qu they 're quite sizeable really I mean they 're not |
| 13 | It was a brave and beautiful place , with innumerable windows and twisting staircases and a lawn and a swing in a tree and everything you could desire in a spacious and desirable residence , only that it was all still and tiny enough to need a magnifying glass to see the intricacies of its carvings and appurtenances . |
| 14 | My family has set some poor standards but I hope that the breakdown of three of my children 's marriages will be seen as what it is , an honest admission of failure and a hope that a happier future lies in separate lives . |
| 15 | Yet when it came to a hulloa and a gallop and a death , she was on terms to the end . |
| 16 | Nevertheless their rebellion is paradoxical — it may mean a baby and a home and an income , but it also means exile from the culture of their own generation and the political resources available to the employed , respectable working class and its representatives . |
| 17 | Oh she borrowed it , and a bonnet and a white flowers an all and Joan turned up like a a twenty five year old Victorian fashion model you should have seen her ! |
| 18 | And a cape and a crown . |
| 19 | Somebody 's , somebody 's put a Q and a Z and an X back in there ! |
| 20 | Who lay a night and a day and a night and a day |
| 21 | For a go-go company like Sun Microsystems Inc , fiscal fourth quarter figures — profits off 43% , sales up just 3% — are lousy , and a company that a year ago looked a shoo-in to pass the four billion dollar mark this year , struggled to only $3,590m . |
| 22 | The view from the picture window showed a carefully landscaped garden , a swimming pool , a tennis court , and a field where a wiry old gardener in baggy peasant clothing and a felt hat was tending his master 's vines and olives . |
| 23 | And it takes it must take a lot longer to produce a plane like the Tornado and a Spitfire or a Lancaster in erm the days of erm nineteen forty three |
| 24 | I will leave them behind me and go only with the clothes on my back , and then I have two miles and a half and a byway to the town , and bring pretty well dressed I may come to some harm almost as bad as what I ran away from , and then , perhaps , it will be reported I have stolen something , and to carry a bad name to my dear parents … |
| 25 | There 's a little tiny bit to tinker with , but it 's not if we were to , we , we 're canvassing at pressed about altering the length of the lunchtime break to break it down from an hour and a half and an hour and a quarter to an hour and a quarter to an hour which is being we would save some money on not paying our |
| 26 | four and a half or an over |
| 27 | now if I tape for about an hour and a half or an hour and then rewind it , it 'll go |
| 28 | She learnt a look and a posture and a set of adjectives which passed for being hip in the Village . |
| 29 | I 'm wearing jeans and a jumper and a spot of make-up — big deal ! ’ |
| 30 | And then I got a and a milk and a packet of crisps . |