Example sentences of "and a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle . |
| 2 | Road blocks were set up and a helicopter brought in from Manchester as police began house-to-house inquiries . |
| 3 | Police dogs and a helicopter have been used to help arrest a new age traveller . |
| 4 | Also on May 2 another Croatian policeman was killed in the mainly Croatian coastal village of Polaca when Serbian police tried to take over the Croatian-manned police station ; and a helicopter carrying among others the Vice-President of the Croatian Federal Assembly , Vladimir Seks , was fired on and forced to make an emergency landing after it took off from Kijevo . |
| 5 | Police using tracker dogs and a helicopter found the body of 25-year-old Sharon Webb on Cape Town 's Table Mountain . |
| 6 | Police using tracker dogs and a helicopter found the body of 25-year-old Sharon Webb on Cape Town 's Table Mountain . |
| 7 | Road blocks were set up and a helicopter equipped with heat-seeking equipment was brought in from Manchester as police began a house-to-house search . |
| 8 | Details presented themselves to him with unusual clarity : the sprinkling of grey hairs among Henry 's curls ; an ambulance siren and a helicopter fighting for dominance outside ; and the dryness at the back of his throat which announced that his addiction to tobacco was craving to be fed . |
| 9 | A councillor who is a student of standing orders is always an asset to the council , but a councillor who is not becomes a burden and a handicap to debate , and frequently a disappointed and frustrated person . |
| 10 | British engineers in the 1930s had preferred to have several boilers per turbine and a station spare , though this involved expensive interconnecting pipework and American experience showed that ‘ unit ’ boilers ( one per turbine ) could be reliable . |
| 11 | But the revenue was not just there for the taking , and a station had to get its programming right to win the necessary audience . |
| 12 | In some of the other houses the stable was now a double garage , but in this one it had been blocked in and a window installed . |
| 13 | Many respondents said that the information fails to highlight critical issues and a majority rated such information as only poor or average . |
| 14 | From the first Protestant Archbishop Thomas Cranmer under King Henry VIII , all the Protestant Archbishops were educated at Oxford or Cambridge and a majority taught at one of those universities . |
| 15 | There have always been a minority of wealthy older people and a majority struggling to survive in poverty . |
| 16 | Despite the fact no-one doubts that popular opinions on crime and its containment are extensively and deeply held , whenever Criminal Justice Bills are before the Commons the atmosphere seems detached and wary , with few MPs participating and a majority keeping the subject at arms length . |
| 17 | In the middle of the night , Mr Jones awoke with a crashing headache and a foreboding feeling that something was decidedly wrong . |
| 18 | His wife wore a similar coat and a veil covered her face to protect against the dust of the road . |
| 19 | At this moment , up in the wood , there broke out an excited yelping and a jay began to scold . |
| 20 | On 7 July 1575 Sir John Forster , the Warden of the English Middle March , took offence at an insult offered him by his opposite number , supporters of the two men began to jeer at each other , and a skirmish ensued in which several men were killed and Sir John and his son-in-law Lord Francis Russell were carried off as prisoners . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Nestled on a mountain terrace nearly 1,000 feet above the azure sea , from here the views are magnificent and a cablecar links you to Taormina Beach below . |
| 23 | When I say that er the existing bonus structure er although unrelated to time , was certainly related to the man 's pay packet and it was given in the way of an advice note with each job , and a price attached to it . |
| 24 | He heard the door close behind him , but just as he reached the gate it was hurriedly opened again and a voice called , ‘ Just a moment ! |
| 25 | Just then they heard a heavy footstep outside , and a voice called , ‘ Neighbours , can I bring a few lambs in there ? ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A jolt , and a voice booming through loudspeakers to announce our arrival in France . |
| 28 | She pressed a button and one of the hit songs of the season emerged at full volume , the tough , shallow lyrics gloatingly declaimed by a star of the mid-sixties who had traded in her artless looks and girlish lispings for a street-wise manner and a voice laden with designer cynicism . |
| 29 | 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 ? ’ |
| 30 | Next morning Alice was alone in the house , when there was a tumult of thudding knocks on the door , and a voice screamed , " Come out , you come out of there , come out ! " |