Example sentences of "and [adj] [coord] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 to stop the wetness seeping through and that the gel , what they do is they shave rabbits , and rub it into their skin , the rashes and that and a couple of rabbits have died from it when they first started testing the stuff
2 And it 's a family that 's well known as a bit you know Geordies and that and a couple of rottweilers .
3 So , and eight and a half for that one .
4 An argument apparently broke out during these talks , and fierce fighting ensued in which Doe was shot and wounded and a total of 64 men , mostly from Doe 's contingent , were believed to have been killed .
5 There was a long delay between the pupils ' arrival and the commencement of the displays and chanting , during which Miss Cackle and the teachers greeted friends and acquaintances , and the girls all stood to attention , being neat and well-behaved and a credit to the school .
6 The first pay they got was two the the first I remember people gillying for the Stenness Hotel , their pay was two and six and a gill of whisky .
7 ‘ Certainly it should be gentle and simple or a place of cold , airy silence . ’
8 At a meeting on May 10 and 11 in the northern town of Bamenda , 18 of the 21 opposition parties issued a call for a general strike on May 16 and 17 and a programme of civil disobedience and demonstrations on May 19 and 20 .
9 He will churn the butter if the kitchen is clean and tidy and a bowl of cream has been set out for him .
10 Behind the savage and futile blood-letting lies unimaginable suffering — families robbed of their loved ones , more than 33,000 injured and maimed and a generation of children brought up in the menacing shadow of the bomb and the bullet .
11 The wild bohemianism of the life at Kisling 's was stimulating and hectic but a drain on Modigliani 's limited energy and he was looking for a change in his life .
12 There is TV and audio and a heap of magazines .
13 Coronation Street , half past seven till eight , Rumpole from nine to ten so you can come out between eight and nine and ten and ele le le le eight and nine and ten and eleven , so you got time for couple between eight and nine and a couple between ten and eleven , how 's that ?
14 In 1553 Northumberland appealed to Parliament for a peacetime grant of two fifteenths and tenths and a subsidy of 2s. in the pound on landed incomes , 1s. 4d. in the pound on personal property over £2O .
15 The GX-7 is a small plastic box measuring some 12cm x 6cm x 3cm with a minimum of controls : two rotaries for Drive and Level and a bank of eight miniature switches to set up the gain and simulation modes .
16 Why not invest in a few Units — new interchangeable separates in black , white , navy and red and a variety of shapes ?
17 From a detached perspective , it might therefore seem that the political viability of the USSR 's East European clients depends not only on greater economic and administrative competence on their part , but the opening up of communication channels between élite and mass and a narrowing of the gulf between state and society .
18 The line-up includes top bands Prodigy , SL2 and Nu-Matic and a string of star DJs .
19 But no , Jessie had to be something else ; Jessie had to be sent to the Secretarial School : no getting her hands sticky from the toffee hammer , breaking up the slabs in the long tins ; no weighing out a ha'p'orth of hundreds and thousands or a penn'orth of sugar baccy ; and as for the weighing out of the real baccy , of hard cut or shag or even serving the best cigars , oh no , oh no , her father was having Jessie do nothing like that .
20 The Anarkali was dark and quiet and a lot of the light was coming from the candle between us .
21 What is important , however , is that the bias should be conscious and deliberate and a matter of corporate policy .
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