Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] and a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1987 two stray Rough Collies , a bitch of about 15 months old and a dog of about 18 months , were picked up and taken to a police station near Oxford . |
| 2 | You know they sleep with both eyes open and a rifle under the pillow-not to mention the fact that it 's still lambing season and most of them will be up all night ! |
| 3 | In her mind , she saw her mother , not dead but full of life with her eyes bright and a smile on her lips . |
| 4 | But today , fortified by her experiences , feeling six feet high and a tower of strength , Miss Fogerty led the entire school into morning assembly and faced a host of questioning eyes with unaccustomed composure and authority . |
| 5 | He is the biggest of all seals , growing up to 14 feet long and a weight of two and a half tonnes . |
| 6 | Dexter shook his long limbs loose and a frown of puzzlement bunched his forehead . |
| 7 | As then Chairman of Bell Line Steamers Ltd and a Director of the Bank of Scotland , he brought to the Board his wide experience of the business and commercial world . |
| 8 | Randolph Fields was thirty-one years old and a barrister by profession . |
| 9 | Marc Jeffery , from Stround , was 20 years old and a student of philosophy . |
| 10 | I 'm 36 years old and a bricklayer by trade . |
| 11 | ‘ Listen , sunshine , ‘ said Amiss , ‘ I am thirty years old and a citizen of a free country . |
| 12 | Stefan Campeanu , forty years old and a leader of the Peasants ' Party , made his way home on foot to his apartment by his usual route , at his normal time . |
| 13 | But he was eleven years older and a father of two — surely he would not take up arms ? |
| 14 | Brendan O'Neill is chairman of GUD Pensions Trustees Ltd and a member of the United Distillers plc board . |
| 15 | Food is freshly cooked , with all meals available and a choice of bar snacks or restaurant meals . |
| 16 | But what a delight it was to come across your adventure , particularly so as Sept saw me doing 6 days canoeing the Zam with Shearwater , rafting Vic Falls 4–19 and a flip at 18 , and I spent 2 days at Kariba lake on a houseboat . |
| 17 | But they also need to have their own anxieties answered ( for example , about side-effects of the drugs ) , and , in dealing with a severe and recurring disorder , they need periodic relief from their caring responsibility , advice on financial supplements available and a knowledge of good ways of coping with difficult behaviour on the part of their disturbed relative . |