Example sentences of "and [noun sg] and [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes skill and judgement and sometimes a compromise is not possible — you may have to choose one over the other . |
| 2 | In two of the three morbidly obese subjects , there was an absence of the early urinary APGPR immunoreactivity peaks in concentration and excretion and only a slow rise in urinary APGPR concentration at four to six hours . |
| 3 | There were tall trees here and there on either side , oak and sycamore and ash and occasionally a sweet chestnut . |
| 4 | I must have one Sunday in the year when we have Sunday lunch at mid-day and not in the evening , because , you know I get to carol services on And he said oh that 's alright , mum and dad eat mid-day anyway so they only want , erm , they only want biscuits and cake and maybe a bit of bread and butter what can you do ? |
| 5 | So , after two years of design and development and nearly a year in the building , what happens now ? |
| 6 | The problem can be quite severe , er we 've had a number of penalties introduced by customs and excise over the last few years but what we 're going to see from the 1st April in this year is interest being charged on overdue moneys paid to customs and excise and also a penalty charged where people make a mistake on their VAT returns , even where they make those mistakes quite innocently . |
| 7 | He told the story of a loner , a drifter , a maverick boy who went from banner-waving at public meetings to protest at experiments on animals , all the way to incendiaries and assault and finally an attempted car bomb . |
| 8 | No doubt we will feel better without the pain and discomfort and often a spell away from the stressful situation will alleviate some of the effects . |
| 9 | Out of sight , shielded by riot and revelry and now a quarter of a century older , lurks the poet who boasted he had not shown his young mug in Poor People : the sober laborious craftsman determined that his tone shall save everything . |
| 10 | ( An attempt to hold elections in November 1987 was called off when voters were massacred by Duvalierist gangs ; the subsequent poll , held in January 1988 , was dominated by Duvalierist candidates and involved considerable fraud and intimidation and only a fraction of the electorate participated — see p. 35697-98 ; 25698-99 . ) |
| 11 | To the English critic ‘ HD ’ the word ‘ cinema ’ conjured up memories of ‘ crowds and crowds and saccharine music and longdrawn out embraces and the artificially enhanced thuds-off of galloping bronchoes ’ and then again ‘ boredom , tedium , suffocation , pink lemonade , saw-dust even , old reactions connected with cheap circuses , crowds and crowds and illiteracy and more crowds and breathless suffocation and ( in America ) peanut shells and grit and perhaps a sudden collapse of jerry-built scaffoldings ’ . |
| 12 | And my mum and dad and probably a couple of the s little kids with them as well . |
| 13 | Not on that evening , but long afterwards , Nicandra was to understand something of Aunt Tossie 's efforts for this celebration : this party for her darling , into which she had thrown heart and soul and quite a lot of money . |
| 14 | Just bread and butter and fucking a big slab of beef . |