Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] and [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What you find is an extraordinary and striking combination of old and new which houses an elegant restaurant , bar , lounge , banqueting rooms and even a chapel .
2 … and in the youngest group , these three 5-year-olds in Wendy Smith 's class at Grayshott — Rory Puddicombe , Victoria Redmond and Siobhan O'Neill — won a Hampshire Technology Fair third prize with a splendid Postman Pat van which had doors and mirrors , opening doors and even an exhaust pipe .
3 Sensitive to open air and sometimes a sensation of breathlessness as if they were passing rapidly through the air .
4 All that is intended here is that the would-be surveyor and sampler has some indication of the possibilities open in sampling methods and also a warning of the problems which sampling entails .
5 So vivid a response by a great poet must inspire respect and possibly a curiosity to see if the reader can match the experience .
6 The Greeks discovered electricity and quite a lot of them were AC-DC as well .
7 He has also made the ‘ Chorus Line ’ of paired sets of dancing legs and even a soccer tackle with contrasting team shorts on the legs plus a suspended ball !
8 Er , oh , right , on toni , tonight we 're gon na have sun and maybe a bit of snow and tomorrow morning we 're gon na have a full moon
9 Most of the remaining paintwork was covered in CND symbols , as were most of the T-shirts , jeans , smock tops and even a couple of nappies which hung on a clothes line stretched between the bus and the fence .
10 Numerous houses became schools , many more became hospitals and quite a number were acquired as reform schools .
11 The flowers offer no reward and deceive the insects by appearing to offer food and perhaps a brood place , so that the plant is doubly parasitic on the liane and on the bluebottle .
12 The hotel boasted passenger lifts , electric bells , revolving doors and even a ladies ' smoking room , which were very advanced for the period and reflected the Midland Railway 's innovative character .
13 There were flocks of moulting eiders and quite a lot of goosanders in the bays , as well as a number of turnstones in their smart ‘ tortoiseshell ’ breeding plumage along the shores .
14 There was a fragment of ringing tone and then a voice .
15 When land becomes available the agent will circulate the details of the site , including acreage , planning condition and possibly a photograph , together With the method of sale — auction , tender , offers or private treaty .
16 Louis Libaude and William Kundig also purchased paintings and finally a banker named Schenemayer hurried over to see Zborowski and bought six portraits for four thousand francs without even bothering to look at them .
17 Our first port of call was the island of Whalsay which had a fine modern harbour , a fish processing plant and even a cooper 's shop where we watched fish barrels being made .
18 Where flint waste is found there are usually hammer stones and perhaps a stone anvil .
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