Example sentences of "and a boy be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ A boy is hitting a girl with a flower ’ or ‘ A girl is being hit with a flower by a boy ’ or ‘ There 's a girl , and a boy is hitting her with a flower ’ are all possible examples , and there are many others . |
| 2 | One police van was backed up to the door of the house and a boy was taken out with a blanket over his head . |
| 3 | Further over , in the dandelion-dotted meadow , a man and a boy were kicking a football through the foot-high grass while two women laid out a picnic lunch . |
| 4 | Three men and a boy were shot dead and , when tents were set ablaze , two women and eleven children who had hidden in an underground cellar , were suffocated by smoke . |
| 5 | In 1873 , two men and a boy were fishing in a rowing boat off the coast of Newfoundland , when one of the men stuck a boathook into a mass of floating wreckage . |
| 6 | Mrs Jean Vince ( 29 ) was said to be recovering at St James 's Hospital , Leeds and husband Jan ( 36 ) ‘ has n't touched base ’ since the five girls and a boy were all born healthy , weighing between 2lb 12oz and 1lb 6oz . |
| 7 | Jan Vince 's five girls and a boy were born by caesarean section to mum Jean within six minutes at St James 's Hospital in Leeds on May 19 . |