Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They 'd just started walking down a narrow street outside the club when all suddenly a taxi hit Michael and knocked him down .
2 A moment or two later a man who , from his lanky form and fine-boned features , could only be her fiancé , Lord Woodleigh , emerged , evidently doing his best to overcome a certain reluctance .
3 They were only just in time , for a minute or two later a procession appeared at the top of the hill and began to make its way slowly down .
4 But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house .
5 She always used to ask my opinions of things and that now a lot of my answers made sense .
6 I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were .
7 A clear handball , as the replay shows and sure enough a penalty , but then Oxford 's Mike Ford was mysteriously sent off for the offence .
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