Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] and [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan and Lisburn 's Neil McGrann were side by side after 50 metres , but it was the Ards swimmer who produced that little bit extra and came home a comfortable winner in a time of 1.10.13 . |
| 2 | The five permanent members of the UN Security Council ( France , China , the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom and the United States ) held their sixth meeting on the Cambodian problem on Aug. 27-28 and worked out a possible framework for a solution . |
| 3 | An enquiry , chaired by Mrs Justice Butler Sloss , was set up in July 1987 and reported exactly a year later ( DOH , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Later on , his mother hoped , when William married and set up a household in his turn , he would make it like the royal one , a model of harmonious order . |
| 5 | She was pretty and crisply dark , her hair short and curling round a pointed face . |
| 6 | The ( Castroist ) Tupac Amarú Revolutionary Movement ( MRTA ) bombed a dozen Lima banks on Nov. 4 and carried out a grenade attack on the presidential palace on Nov. 5 which wounded three people . |
| 7 | The Soviet parliament voted the address unconstitutional and set up a special committee , dominated by Communist hardliners , to send a formal appeal to the Russian parliament . |
| 8 | We swung into a drive , knocking a mesh gate askew and waking up a snoring security guard . |
| 9 | Her lungs burst into fragments of agony so infinite that her lower lip could do no more than flop open and dribble out a feeble croak . |
| 10 | We papered the walls white and put up a border : with curtains and a lampshade to match , it only came to around £50 . |
| 11 | Some people make a football party educational and hire out a hall and a soccer coach for children to have a party and be given advice on how to play the game . |