Example sentences of "and a [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Road blocks were set up and a helicopter brought in from Manchester as police began house-to-house inquiries . |
| 2 | There was a movement in the undergrowth and a rabbit bobbed out into the clearing , settling to feed within a few feet of where he stood . |
| 3 | After a few moments of silence there was a series of sharp raps on the door , and a voice called out , asking if anyone was inside . |
| 4 | He could n't see round the next bend , he must record , tapes were periscopes , his only chance , and the slow ink stolen and the wheels turning , and everything remembered , everything proved , he was whispering now , ‘ Why five , ’ he was whispering , ‘ is n't one enough ? ’ and a voice came back , a woman 's , Sharon 's , ‘ One what ? ’ |
| 5 | Then the fit passed or paused and a voice said tightly but proudly , ‘ Hugh Sixsmith ? ’ |
| 6 | Then someone gave a victory whoop and a voice shouted excitedly , ‘ Didya see th'size o ’ them bastards ? |
| 7 | It held my hand tightly , and a voice cried sadly , ‘ Let me in ! |
| 8 | The fighting was at stalemate until noon , when the soldiers raised a white flag , and a voice cried out in the Chinook jargon : ‘ Colonel Miles would like to see Chief Joseph ’ . |
| 9 | As he stepped into the court 's exit cubicle and a door locked automatically behind him , paranoid schizophrenic Clive Wells cheekily waved goodbye to the three psychiatric nurses guarding him . |
| 10 | GOD 'S PROMISES ON THE BRINK and a hero brought down to earth with a bump |
| 11 | ‘ We pile up the tyres and a firm comes round to collect them . |
| 12 | At the Sedgwick memorial , the main street continues ahead and a branch turns right , these rejoining at Cowgill a few miles further on ; this branch road will be described on the return journey . |
| 13 | Helping women to stay at home yet giving them an occupation , some money and a branch held out towards the wider community were all worthy goals in Laura 's eyes . |
| 14 | A click , a swish and a panel slid away to reveal a … |
| 15 | Anthea lay stretched on her narrow single bed , sweat filming her face , and a sheet wrapped tightly around her left ankle . |
| 16 | The scattered crowd drew closer together and listened quietly , but when he gave his warning about the Riot Act , glances were exchanged , a few grinned openly , and a wit called out , ‘ They must know the law here — that is why they have all stayed at home . ’ |
| 17 | Each evening , arriving at a new hotel , she carried from the car one suitcase , one shoulder bag , a striped beach bag and a Guernsey knotted round her shoulders . |
| 18 | And a photographer told how he saw a girl of about six so severely burned that a fireman could not bring himself to treat her by dousing her with a hose . |
| 19 | He was killed by a needle-like instrument ( punctured wound the report says , but it was four and a quarter inches deep ) going into his kidney , renal artery , peritoneum and loop of jejunem . |
| 20 | It is notable that a quarter of both incontinent and non-incontinent subjects think it is due to a medical condition , a quarter of incontinent women that it is due to childbirth , and a quarter do n't know . |
| 21 | Take hour and a quarter to get home . |
| 22 | Plus soup , tinned meat , crackers , chocolate and a billycan to boil up in . ’ |
| 23 | Now the face was lost in flesh and a paunch hung on him like a soft bell . |
| 24 | " The conclusion … marks the end , the rounding off , of an argument and its value lies both in reminding the reader succinctly of what has been written and in endeavouring to create , with the reader , a favourable impression and a disposition to treat favourably . " |
| 25 | But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined . |
| 26 | Amongst the many things Sue and Colin have worked on , the walled garden is much improved with very pretty herbaceous borders and a lawn laid out with parasoled tables and chairs , where guests can relax with a drink on a warm summer 's evening . |
| 27 | He took part in a television series starring Billie Whitelaw called Time Out For Peggy , playing a verse writer for a greetings card manufacturer , and in a Margaret Rutherford TV play , The Noble Spaniard He also had two more demanding projects — pantomime and a second Carry On film . |
| 28 | The profit of the company is partially shared with employees and a payment made once or twice a year . |
| 29 | Many kind Friends interest themselves in George Green 's behalf , and I find that by this day 's post an application has been made for a specimen of his hand-writing etc. and a hope held out of a situation ( in a Counting house , I believe ) , but if you were willing to take him , and if it could be arranged in other points , he would greatly prefer being in your establishment to any thing else . |
| 30 | Perhaps you foresaw some dangerous maritime encounter , with streaming sou'westers and a vessel torn symbolically between pitch and roll ? |