Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While no longer under oath to abide by the rules and pray every day for their benefactor , the present tenants no doubt are thankful for their rent and rate-free accommodation , their free central heating and laundry and , though the gentlemen no longer receive a new suit every two years nor the ladies a new frock , they do receive a visit from the wardens and the clerk at Christmas bearing a small monetary gift . |
| 2 | And the pantomimes a different thing altogether . |
| 3 | The naos has a painted barrel vault and the pro-naos a flat-timber roof . |
| 4 | So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time . |
| 5 | The floors of the rooms were covered with cracked blue and white tiles , the walls were a pale blue wash flaking on to the sand and the doors a bright sea blue . |
| 6 | But the things a long way off are coming nearer . " |