Example sentences of "and a [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a trowel and he was trowelling away . |
| 2 | But then her movement was arrested by the sound of a door opening and closing on the far side of the room , and a voice that she recognised only too well . |
| 3 | In that short interval we managed to grab a couple of milk crates and a door that we found at the edge of a building site . |
| 4 | Think you ended up with a cough and a cold and she 's gon na catch it , I caught it off you . |
| 5 | acid and a base and we get salt and water , try alkali and a base you get salt and water so they 're very similar reaction , the base and the acid and the alkali and the acid . |
| 6 | Erm delivery for the steel will come in and we need a crane to offload and a crane when we 're offloading onto the tractor trailer |
| 7 | and a brush and they supply the and that 's it , you pay and get pissed at the same time . |
| 8 | There 's one bedroom and a living room and a kitchen and a bathroom and it 's qu they 're quite sizeable really I mean they 're not |
| 9 | And she made her exit , to the kitchen , where her real worry was not so much the butlers as the cook , Deirdre Kavanagh , ex-girlfriend of her eldest stepson Jonathan , a mad and dreadful girl with a talent for puff pastry and a conviction that she was a femme fatale , a conviction alas supported by her authentic Irish beauty and her seductive Irish brogue . |
| 10 | Other public rooms include a reception area , lounge , dining room , TV lounge and a bar where you will be offered a welcome cocktail . |
| 11 | Jeans and a T-shirt but you never noticed what Zosie wore . |
| 12 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |
| 13 | She stared away from them and up beyond the cage towards the grey sky , and Creggan saw in her eyes a longing and a hope that he sensed had been with her all her long life , and was with her even now when he saw she was so near death . |
| 14 | This is his sixteenth over , two for seventeen with nine maidens so far , bowling from the far end , the nursery end with a cluster of fielders , you 've got a silly point and a short leg and a slip and he 's got er , at the moment four men on the leg side as he 's had most of the time and five on the off , and now a slight adjustment , we 're gon na have an extra one around the batsman . |
| 15 | Between them they took my pulse rate , temperature , and a decision that I was not , nor had been , blind drunk on vodka . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's tea in the kitchen and a drink if ye 'd rather . ’ |
| 17 | The data has been collated from past What Personal Computer reviews and each entry in the data file includes details from the actual review and a reference so you can read all about the ones that appear on your shortlist . |
| 18 | I was engaged to Simon for six months and a virgin when I married . ’ |
| 19 | Not really , I mean well I know , German I mean I 'm gon na be worried about it when I get there but at the moment German and French are just gon na be translating something , there 'll be , give me an extract and a translation and I 'll have to do them , you know |
| 20 | Now at about the time that that letter was written on the twenty second of October er Mr had the meeting at the National Westminster Bank that had been arranged between himself and a Mrs and it is clear from er this meeting that the bank would no longer er , given that the Frinton property was not to be offered as security , prepared to offer the sum , the substantial sums that they had originally agreed to do and they were now only prepared to offer very much smaller sums and the plaintiff 's case is that the only way that they were going to be able to proceed to complete on this matter was er by selling their homes , their family home at and it is the plaintiff 's case , certainly in relation to er the losses that they have sustained as a result of the breach of contract , alleged in this case , that er if they had not been forced to go ahead to complete on this deal they would not have been required to sell their family home . |
| 21 | I expect you 're tired — you generally have a sherry and a nap when you come home at this time , and , besides , there are those papers to correct and I hoped you 'd help me unpack . |
| 22 | But , can I say this that what mattered most to me was the fact that I have been in conversation with so many people and to be able to allow that conversation to affect my faith and a faith that I have to proclaim day by day and Sunday by Sunday from the pulpits of my church . |
| 23 | Erm , it 's an arm and a leg but I think she feels that she ritually deserves it er you know . |
| 24 | At first , economic pressures pushed clients to a grudging , reluctant use of search consultants , and a realisation that they were acceptable and tolerable on the grounds that they could save time and hassle and ultimately even money , and could carry out confidential corporate dirty work in tight spots . |
| 25 | It was really just the beginning of my interest in things musical , political , cultural etc and a realisation that I was never going to play for Crystal Palace ! ’ |
| 26 | Genet describes him as ‘ so obviously both a pimp — a barracks or red-light district ponce — and a whore that I could never make out what he was doing among the fedayeen ’ ( p. 153 ) . |
| 27 | But once you 've made this sauce of yours I suggest you have a bath and a rest before we eat . |
| 28 | I 'm living with my sister ; she 's got a boy and a girl but it 's not the same . ’ |
| 29 | Dr Courtney was also found guilty of drugging and raping a woman who went to him for advice about work , and indecently assaulting a German student and a 17-year-old when they went to his surgery for part-time jobs . |
| 30 | You can take a toddler to a summer show to see the cows , dogs , cats , rabbits , sheep , goats , horses and a funfair and he 's only interested in the red and white police cones marking out the car park . |