Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are American and a subset of them have this risible attitude that they can get away with just making loads of noise and , as long as the audience is in a similarly altered state of mind , no-one will be the wiser . |
| 2 | nine stone seven , I said what you talking about nine stone seven , I 'm eleven and a half stone , not now you 're not she said |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sixteen and a half , Bean . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 're much more sensible than you used to be , but your mum ca n't see it , and my mum still thinks I 'm three and a half . ’ |
| 5 | Fifteen and a half Er well no I was nineteen and a half then you see , five years is n't it . |
| 6 | ‘ After my father died , when I was five and a half , she used to make me bath myself all alone . |
| 7 | " I was 11 and a half stone ( 160lb/73kg ) when I began the WNAS diet . |
| 8 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 9 | I started school to er Bowvale School on Dovecote Lane at Eastwood , when I was two and a half . |
| 10 | Maybe I was lackadaisical and a bit self-indulgent . |
| 11 | Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time . |
| 12 | I first started when I was seven and a half . |
| 13 | Now that two of you are married and a couple of you are starting families , does the band work as a lads ' escape ? |
| 14 | If you are ill and a doctor feels that this could be due to HIV , being tested will be an important part of finding out what 's wrong . |
| 15 | These days , you just ca n't get insured at all if you 're young and a biker in certain areas . |
| 16 | you 're four and a half |
| 17 | You 're four and a half |
| 18 | You 're welcome and a penny change |
| 19 | And as she 's five and a bit weeks old , it 's five weeks |
| 20 | Four : she 's straight and a mummy . |
| 21 | For the past few months my husband , who 's 43 and a smoker , has been getting a sharp pain in the pit of his stomach , which he 's been ‘ curing ’ with a glass of milk . |
| 22 | She is fourteen and a half , and still in pretty good shape . |
| 23 | The appeal relates to two children : a girl , E. , who is six and a boy , C. , who is 2¾ . |
| 24 | Her mother said : ‘ My son , who is two and a half , has slept in the cot before with no problems and she has always been alright in it . |
| 25 | ‘ I have but one child who is stubborn and a liar , and that is Marie , ’ she would tell strangers or neighbours . |
| 26 | When she was two and a half , we all went on holiday in France with the two boys . |
| 27 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 28 | He thought of her as the child , though she was married and a mother . |
| 29 | ‘ She was four and a half when I first saw her , ’ explained Libby . |
| 30 | She was diabetic and a cause for concern . |