Example sentences of "the [noun sg] and [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ollie scooped out the money and found just a little short of l 5 |
| 2 | Often one takes home the luxury and sees only a mulched wad of money . |
| 3 | Rhoda would open the tin and foil once a week or at least once a fortnight before Christmas to soak the cloth with more bourbon before resealing it . |
| 4 | Keegan and Newcastle , though , have other problems to solve : like how United lost their pattern after the break and mustered just a couple of halfchances . |
| 5 | ‘ The traditional British way of doing things in international sporting bodies is to go to the body and put forward a sensible , fair and balanced objective and assume then that everybody will vote for it . |
| 6 | The tip slid through the tweed and penetrated about a quarter of an inch into the fleshy part of the leg . |
| 7 | Or if they go to the toilet and take just a little longer . |
| 8 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 9 | After that you 'd think that Cov would man-mark Wallace out of the game and throw forward a few players . |
| 10 | Someone or something had been through the fridge and taken away a few samples of earthling diet — a chilli con carne and a cold lasagne that was probably even now being scoffed by a load of blobs up in the ionosphere . |
| 11 | ‘ I lifted it out onto the pathway and had quite a job to prise the frog from the seemingly lifeless fish . ’ |
| 12 | I see in today 's papers that Batty will be back in the team for tomorrow , does this mean that Wilko will drop Fairclough or Newsome or will he let Rocky go back to the bench and play essentially a back 6 ? |
| 13 | Bob caught her by the shoulder and used his own to wipe her face , while John turned on the woman and let loose a volley of dismissive French . |
| 14 | Around the turn of the century , there was much disenchantment with freemasonry because it was negating its original secrets of the occult and becoming more a social club and friendly society . |
| 15 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 16 | In due course they were fitted to all the rest of the fleet and gave quite a distinctive appearance to South Metropolitan cars . |