Example sentences of "[noun] and a [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 There were some bruised shins and sprained ankles , black eyes and a few cuts and grazes but nothing you would n't get on a rugby field , although a couple of old ladies were taken off home by ambulance with attacks of the vapours .
2 The first real indication of the mood of the new House came on Wednesday , 3 June 1992 , the day after the Danish ‘ no ’ vote and a few hours after the prime minister had told Parliament that he intended nevertheless to press ahead with the bill ratifying the Maastricht Treaty .
3 Moran stood erect and apart on the platform , totally separate as he gazed at the hill across the tracks where the stationmaster 's brown horse and a few cattle and sheep grazed .
4 Morrissey and Marr borrowed a drummer and a few pounds and worked a night session in a scruffy Manchester 8-track studio .
5 Wavebreaker was registered in the Channel Islands , and thus sailed under a defaced British red ensign with the Bahamian flag flying as a courtesy ensign from the main spreaders , but I always greeted arriving charter guests with their own country 's flag — though such a gesture was considered bad flag etiquette by nautical purists , it was good for our final tip — and so Thessy now hoisted the Stars and Stripes to the mainmast 's spreaders and a smaller Stars and Bars just beneath .
6 Get the knives and forks and some bread and a few plates and take them next door ! 1 ’
7 The first signs of a problem start with greasy skin and a few blackheads or whiteheads on nose , cheeks and forehead , indicating the rise to maturity of previously insignificant grease glands .
8 They did , however , continue to offer exceptionally generous hire purchase terms on cookers : one Board , for example , offered repayments over ten years and a free parts and replacement service over that period .
9 OS/2 version 2 is claimed by IBM to be ‘ a better DOS than DOS and a better Windows than Windows ’ — and that 's true , up to a point .
10 In the pastures stood sheep , cattle and a few horses and around the farm buildings were geese , fowl and cats .
11 Anna Coots and Patricia Hewitt , two of the most creative pamphleteers , ought to be assured peerages and a few quangoes if Mr Smith gets to Downing Street .
12 He looked through the xerox sheets that had been pressed between them but there was nothing too controversial there , just a Jenner Clinic catalogue and price schedule and a few dates and details .
13 like you say you just get onto that right and it 's , that 's three hundred yards and you get the next one that 's two hundred yards and a hundred yards until you stop , to the junction
14 ‘ They 've taken him to Queen Elizabeth Hospital with a suspected broken leg and a few cuts and bruises .
15 Well it was the first hundred houses that were built in the New Town and it housed a lot of building trade workers , a lot of engineers and a lot of archi well a lot , a few architects and a few engineers and the rest were building trade workers or of some sort or another , and a few British Hydro
16 ‘ I remember in the early days there were only green fields and a few cottages and farmhouses .
17 The standard workstation for all series has 32Mb main memory and a 256-colour 19″ or 21″ monitor .
18 Published three times a year and a thousand copies and distributed to all school 's within a very wide area through the Education Authority .
19 I predict a defeat for the scum at Man city this saturday , a win for Leeds against chelsea , a win for New Earswick ( my team ) on saturday and on sunday and a few jars and a curry on saturday night to make this week a truly memorable one .
20 We were squatting cross-legged on the floor of the mission house at Nyaung-ngu , half a dozen priests and a dozen men and women teachers .
21 These latter worked on route 7 to Uxbridge and a few weeks before that route was to be converted to trolleybus operation , they were each fitted out with plough carriers and the necessary switch gear for conduit operation , so that they could make their own way under power to whichever depôt they were sent .
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