Example sentences of "[noun] and [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They appear in the form of a pair of vermilion ‘ chops ’ on our family note-paper and on quite a number of original Chinese paintings inscribed to us by the artists . |
| 2 | The dividing wall holding this tank only attracts sunlight from one side and for only a couple of hours a day , and only at the height of summer . |
| 3 | A railway company came to Wall 's aid and before long a trial was held under floodlit conditions . |
| 4 | In all three cases the method of construction was changed , with turf on a stone , or part-stone , platform at Brough and Rochester and with only a palisade at Caister . |
| 5 | They were told to keep the volume very low , there was no proper lighting rig and at 10.45pm an announcement was made while they were on stage : ‘ Last orders at the bar now please ! ’ |
| 6 | And clearly I would say that rather than to cross it in that column shown to the A sixty four north that Mr shows , it should be the converse and at least a tick , if not two . |
| 7 | With his hear pounding in his chest and with barely a glance at the dreaded Bogeyman 's door , he raced along the landing and down the main stairs . |
| 8 | Fill in the blanks and in just a couple of hours you can have a fully integrated 3 year financial forecast , including Sales , Operating Expenses , P&L , Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Analysis . |
| 9 | In the larger towns many parish priests were singing the majority of their masses for the dead with no family member present and with only an altar server to chant the responses . |
| 10 | You might expect air conditioning , leather seats and at least a stereo when you pay over £50,000 for a car , but not if it 's a Mercedes you 're buying . |
| 11 | So far , we have looked at ways of getting started , at researching your ideas and at how an argument is structured . |
| 12 | But a neighbour wrote an anonymous letter about them to the DHSS and before long an official was knocking at their door . |
| 13 | The narrow strait is Kylesku and until recently a car ferry operated across it , this providing the only possible continuation of the main road on the west side of Sutherland . |
| 14 | The curlicues massed at his collar and from here a series of well-defined ginger ridges ascended to his nude pate . |
| 15 | But rule also depended on a degree of common purpose between kings and at least a proportion of the secular magnates . |
| 16 | The parrot-in-the-chimney affair quite definitely cooled both parents down a lot and for over a week they were comparatively civil to their small daughter . |
| 17 | I remember then with great affection and with quite a lot of pain . ’ |
| 18 | What follows is an examination of structure and of how an awareness by the teacher of its significance can help him find the game in the drama . |
| 19 | We are still far from the " permissive society " which is fantasised alike by the prurient and the repressive ; but many of the taboos and at least a part of the secrecy and guilt feeling which surrounded sexual considerations in the earlier lifetime of many people have gone . |
| 20 | Then he turned to Rachel and for just a moment allowed his gaze to meet hers . |
| 21 | Hedges have been pulled out , stone walls pulled down , all for the sake of productivity and with not a whimper of opposition from successive governments . |
| 22 | Television had brought golf to the working class and for just a moment television gave us an idea of what it meant to them . |
| 23 | Sir Derek 's preference is to bring in some friendly Continental company such as Daimler-Benz of West Germany as a substantial minority shareholder , leaving Ferranti with a share quote and at least a semblance of independence . |
| 24 | Tersteeg , his ex-employer and for long a friend of the family , wrote him a disapproving letter . |