Example sentences of "[noun] and [adj] [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ordered more beer : but the maid was just as absorbed in her task and besides , though Hope always boasted to himself that no woman was unattractive to a man who knew how to look , he had to admit that this particular maid of the Swan was not immediately seductive : she was excessively talk , awkwardly balanced , lank and thin-haired and a wart took away most of the attraction from her nose . |
| 2 | I drove home in my Fiasco , which , apart from the faulty cooling system , the recurring malfunction with the brakes and power-steering and a tendency to list violently to the left , seems to be running fairly reliably at present . |
| 3 | And it 's a family that 's well known as a bit you know Geordies and that and a couple of rottweilers . |
| 4 | to stop the wetness seeping through and that the gel , what they do is they shave rabbits , and rub it into their skin , the rashes and that and a couple of rabbits have died from it when they first started testing the stuff |
| 5 | For women , tight trousers and top or a leotard or swimsuit ; for men , swimming trunks would be ideal . |
| 6 | Why not invest in a few Units — new interchangeable separates in black , white , navy and red and a variety of shapes ? |
| 7 | And I 've seen when getting corn er just right er dressed for the mill , I 've seen us er doing with a spade and that and a tub . |
| 8 | Brannen , at 6ft 2 ins and 13 and a half stone , is now every inch a serious international pedigree athlete . |
| 9 | A combination of absentees and rejections left only 99 of the 162 entries catalogued on offer and all but a handful sold as the packed ringside of buyers competed for the animals remaining in the sale . |
| 10 | The GX-7 is a small plastic box measuring some 12cm x 6cm x 3cm with a minimum of controls : two rotaries for Drive and Level and a bank of eight miniature switches to set up the gain and simulation modes . |
| 11 | When they was doing the decorating and that and a lock went wrong oh take it down to Dick and er they 'd bring it and whatever I was doing , however important it was , just because they 'd be finish the decorating at night and they wanted to put the lock back , I 'd drop what I was doing and do this for them . |
| 12 | From a detached perspective , it might therefore seem that the political viability of the USSR 's East European clients depends not only on greater economic and administrative competence on their part , but the opening up of communication channels between élite and mass and a narrowing of the gulf between state and society . |
| 13 | There is TV and audio and a heap of magazines . |