Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] and a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | The man is dressed in walking boots , brown cords and a shirt and green hiking jacket . |
2 | There had been some pedals and a lever and the steering wheel , and that had been about it . |
3 | It was just that I and the others in the class — at least , the ones who turned up yesterday , a lot of people did n't bother — anyway , we felt it would be nice to send some flowers and a card or something to her relatives . |
4 | ‘ I just came in to buy some flowers and a paper and suddenly I find I 'm in the middle of it all . |
5 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
6 | She changed out of her glad rags , tugged on old jeans and a sweatshirt and drove out to his house . |
7 | In May 1964 I travelled by coach with a couple of willing colleagues and a score or more of sixth-formers to spend a week reading , arguing , and welcoming visitors to a refreshing house on the Gower Peninsular in Wales . |
8 | And somehow , he could n't imagine either of them coming around to the house for some beers and a pizza and a John Wayne movie on the video . |
9 | Erm but their bathrooms and their showers there 's three showers and a bath and you share that with the bloke next door ! |
10 | Apart from two or three cafes and a restaurant or two , there is little habitation . |
11 | Julie has four children , three daughters and a son and is married to John , a Reader in Science Education at the University of Surrey . |
12 | The 2,000lb van bomb also damaged 700 Belfast homes , three churches and a school and 23 people were injured . |
13 | You can just imagine this little boy in the playground , when everyone else is kicking a soccer ball , dressed with big padded shoulders and a helmet and an American football — it was quite bizarre really . |
14 | Above are Corinthian pilasters and a gold and white coffered ceiling , erected in the sixteenth century . |
15 | If I get those things and a book or two — I will go to Wednesday night chapel for a whole year . |
16 | Her euphoria had been considerably aided and abetted by the intake of some gin and orange drinks and a cocktail or two given freely to those selected few responsible for the organising of such a grand evening . |
17 | Both Parker and Spurgeon were able to maintain elegant homes and a carriage and pair which took them to their respective chapels . |
18 | There are two good-sized bedrooms and a box-room but the real luxury is the bathroom . |
19 | Nine thousand , three hundred and thirty one sorties and a year and a half later , you flew your last mission on the twentieth of April , nineteen forty five , from this field . |
20 | Of course one would n't change places with that poor old thing even if one had to look after fifteen small boys and a loony or so thrown in ! |
21 | Mary in a pretty pink dress out of which stuck yellow claws and a head and face made by plastic surgeons of grafts ranging in colour from vellum to grape-purple . |
22 | okay , it is where the trouser crease meets the line of the groin and it 's skin deep , okay , so you 'll pushing onto it you 'd probably have to put your two fingers and a pad and your knuckles right in there , alright and you 'll feel it yourself best when you 're lying down and your knee just up like that , that 's when you can feel it best because you can push in harder then , cos you 've relaxed your stomach and that 's another tip for putting pressure on it when you 've got somebody who needs that , you need to relax the stomach muscle , but you manage to put pressure up there okay ? |
23 | He wore shabby corduroys and a jacket and looked thoroughly nondescript . |
24 | Crown counsel said the Belfast men bound and gagged Sarah Kennedy , her two young sons and a school-friend and held them at gunpoint in the house at My Lady 's Mile , Holywood , on November 27 , 1991 . |
25 | With two violins and a guitar and all our stuff anyway , that 'll be enough ! |
26 | Thirty-three bored and idle men from Rathcoole and nearby Carrickfergus took two minibuses and a taxi and drove to north Antrim for a pub crawl in districts where the writ of the Central Cc.ordinating Committee was not observed . |
27 | Serve with new potatoes and a tomato and onion salad . |
28 | It was a brave and beautiful place , with innumerable windows and twisting staircases and a lawn and a swing in a tree and everything you could desire in a spacious and desirable residence , only that it was all still and tiny enough to need a magnifying glass to see the intricacies of its carvings and appurtenances . |
29 | He has two machines and a van and the use of a modern workshop in one of Mr Woodward 's barns . |
30 | It involved two satyrs and a woman and was very obscene indeed . |