Example sentences of "a [noun sg] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fruitful though this has been in promoting and giving direction to research , its uncritical pursuit only serves to advance a reductionist and therefore an inadequate view of man . |
| 2 | She 'd been half-expecting a trial and then a labour camp but instead , there was an ambulance . |
| 3 | After a while they were left alone for a bit and then a Black Maria turned up . |
| 4 | Most remarkable was the way in which cat and dog , owl and rat , fox and ferret , pets of all sorts calmly ignored each other throughout , with never a bark and hardly a whine |
| 5 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 6 | Much of what he wrote was , essentially , a defence and even a celebration of ‘ war communism ’ . |
| 7 | She said : ‘ I heard a click and then a shot and one of our cats , Fluffy , came running into the garden . |
| 8 | I 'm going to send it away and y for twenty five points on the back twenty five points you get a silver badge for a beginner and then a gold |
| 9 | Combination techniques comprise a host of different moves , a kick and follow-up punch , for example , or a double-kick and then a punch . |
| 10 | This transformation occurred primarily in the northern and western provinces , which were always more of a liability and less a source of wealth and culture than the southern and eastern provinces . |
| 11 | But at once , for very fear that the bearded man who had reached out as I struggled with my hamper ( ‘ No , no , I do very well , thank you ’ ) might follow me and find out everything , I hailed a porter and then a cab , assuming a confidence I did not feel . |
| 12 | ‘ I did have help from my cousin who 's a midwife and also a good friend . |
| 13 | To be late would earn a reprimand and possibly a warning from those who stood above them . |
| 14 | It is from Paul , and Paul alone , that a new religion begins to emerge — not a form of Judaism , but a rival and ultimately an adversary to Judaism . |
| 15 | If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold . |
| 16 | During the 19th century , however , it fell on hard times , and was turned first into a warehouse and then a restaurant . |
| 17 | And er what , four the rest I think it was one pound five a Twenty five shillings every three months and you got a sovereign and often a five shilling piece . |
| 18 | Oh yeah , it 's got a group of pleats and then a gap and then a group of pleats , mm . |
| 19 | The top floor , closest to the glazed roof section , also suffered from heat gain during the July and August heatwave — plans are in hand to install a brise-soleil and possibly a local air-conditioning system . |
| 20 | She must send Mrs Rundle a card and perhaps a present but she had no money . |
| 21 | He had gone to stay at a monastery and somehow a misunderstanding arose and he was asked if he had been baptised . |
| 22 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 23 | A second and probably a more significant aspect of decentralisation is where a certain measure of local autonomy or local initiative is encouraged by central authorities . |
| 24 | Where possible , fieldworkers attempted to record a male and a female at each address , and since very often both were not at home at the time of the first visit , a second and even a third visit was arranged to most addresses . |
| 25 | The first property company had gone into liquidation and it had been sold to a second and then a third . |
| 26 | Below it was a second and then a third such stone . |
| 27 | Leave to harden for about 24 hours before , if a very professional finish is required , applying a second and then a third thin coat . |
| 28 | The experience of being molested once as a child and then a man jumping in her car at 21 yrs and her running away remained with her so that she has persistent fear of being attacked and the sense of someone being behind her . |
| 29 | You 've got to learn to be a toddler from a baby , you 've got to learn to be a child and then a teenager . |
| 30 | The charges allege that on various occasions over the 14 months to August last year at the home , she assaulted one woman by throwing her from her bed on to a chair then a commode , putting her in a bath against her will and pulling her along a corridor , and of assaulting the second woman in a similar manner by throwing her from her bed on to a wheelchair and then a commode , dragging her across a room and tying her to a chair . |