Example sentences of "and a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A scramble for film rights and a whistle-stop tour of the US on a book-signing tour followed — 11 cities in 12 days and a $75,000 advance . |
| 2 | Four women and a seven-year-old boy were taken to hospital . |
| 3 | A 26-year-old woman and a seven-year-old girl were taken to the Western Infirmary , Glasgow . |
| 4 | ‘ He loved this building , ’ says Hilda , who has a 41-year-old son , Colin , and a seven-year-old grandson , Richard . |
| 5 | It turned out that she was a freelance editor for OUP , with a daughter in her early teens and a seven-year-old son for whom she had been caring single-handedly since her husband 's untimely death . |
| 6 | The boat was kept open by hinged side struts and a straining device at both ends . |
| 7 | Mrs Sparsit 's great-aunt , ‘ an immensely fat old woman , with an inordinate appetite for butcher 's meat , and a mysterious leg which had now refused to get out of bed for fourteen years ’ . |
| 8 | There was a flimsy nightdress which seemed to consist only of feathers and ribbons , and a mysterious stick of what looked like fudge . |
| 9 | Soon a lovely glow spreads over all , giving place to deep shadows and a mysterious haze disappearing into the distance into deep blue . ’ |
| 10 | On the Pahinui Brothers ' album Cooder is listed as playing mandolin , an eight-string ukulele , an ‘ electric tenor guitar ’ and a mysterious thing called the Kona lap steel … |
| 11 | Down in Mono Valley , you can be sure there are abused kids , sad sweet dreamers , the misunderstood and the distracted — all huddled under its hazy horizons , but the Popinjays have their own style of empathy and a philosophical get-out line that says ‘ nothing ever goes away , it just becomes before and you 'll find it all once more . ’ |
| 12 | But everyone ends up hiding under the sheets , not too terrified , and a philosophical bear lollops back along the beach to his cave . |
| 13 | Stansill was not one of the extroverts of the underground , but what he did bring was method , in an environment with hardly any , and a philosophical view about the alternative which the underground could offer . |
| 14 | Cartoons showed malevolent-looking flies with a smoking gun labelled ‘ anthrax ’ in one hand and a dripping knife labelled ‘ typhoid ’ in the other . |
| 15 | Gloria led them along a brick path , across a cobbled courtyard , past outhouses and a dripping water butt , then into the big house and along many passages . |
| 16 | There was a blue sky this morning and a dripping sound , which she located as the sound of melting snow , pattering from the eaves . |
| 17 | History is told throughout the town — Greek amphitheatre , Roman arcading and a ruinous odeon , moorish detailing on the lintels of palazzi , medieval castles and baroque churches . |
| 18 | With diligence and determination ( and attending Stow Street College of Printing ) I was considered as an asset and a useful member of the firm . |
| 19 | Drawings can be resized , flipped horizontally or vertically , stretched , compressed or rotated , and a useful feature is the ability to set the cursor to move only horizontally or vertically in order to draw straight lines . |
| 20 | First , it shows that common sense has prevailed and a useful customer service reintroduced . |
| 21 | Making good notes in lectures or from books is an important art and a useful skill . |
| 22 | By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , the Gloucester was deemed one of the country 's better dairy cows and a useful draught ox . |
| 23 | A holiday memorable for seafood and storms , and a useful test of the author 's PPL/IR — and two folding mountain bikes . |
| 24 | On the basis of recent information , I am able to distinguish between their insistence at this point and a useful negotiating ploy . |
| 25 | It is an ideal opportunity to play constructively together and a useful way for everyone to make new friends . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , Barry Gale 's book is well worth reading , and a useful contribution to the literature on Darwin . |
| 27 | Teachers will be asked to record and review the experience , and employers usually find these reports to be very positive insights , and a useful evaluation of their work . |
| 28 | It was appropriate to the spirit of jazz ( and a useful antidote to the inevitable toe-curling staginess of awards ceremonies in general ) to present two bands of joint American-British instrumentalists who had not worked together before to see what would happen . |
| 29 | It was my lunch hour and I was dressed classic BR Clerk Chic ( beer-stained jacket , tightly knotted skinny tie , crimplene shiny ass pants and shoes with animal tracks and a useful compass in the heel ) . |
| 30 | The Il-103 , first revealed in model form at last year 's Paris Air Show and as a full-scale mock-up at MosAero '92 in August , is a low-wing four/five seat fixed-gear aerobatic trainer/tourer with a maximum take-off weight of 1,300 kilograms and a useful load of 350 kilograms . |