Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears primarily amongst women who were born and remained in a rural area , and she detects a striking rise in rural illegitimacy . |
| 2 | Jill Duffy is certainly highly involved with the state of her home and she does a great deal of housework that many other people would consider unnecessary . |
| 3 | Now , there is an added urgency to her shots and she remains an unlikely threat to both grass court opponents and , ( following her victory in the 1990 French Open and her re-appearance in the final again this year ) , clay court specialists . |
| 4 | She slips on a bright red party dress and she becomes a fun teenager . |
| 5 | And she uses an eclectic range of procedures , from experiments and questionnaires to semi-structured and counselling interviews . |
| 6 | for human , and she sports a ridgy seam |
| 7 | She lives in Gloucestershire , where she has 15 acres of land , and she keeps a small flat just by Regent 's Park . |
| 8 | The Hero is Sylvia McNair , and she brings a distinct gain , for there is more tenderness in her ‘ Je vais le voir ’ than in Eda-Pierre 's singing , and the joyous mood of ‘ Il me revient fidèle ’ comes with more conviction and strength of contrast . |
| 9 | Add an overshirt and skirts of varying styles and she has a complete wardrobe . |
| 10 | Here Aphrodite is shown with her hand on Priapus ( god of fruitfulness ) , and she has a tiny figure of Eros sitting below her feet . |
| 11 | Her spirit is infinitely stronger than Charles 's and she has a greater sense of her own destiny than he has . |
| 12 | The Princess of Wales survives attacks because she is glamorous , lovable , a devoted mother of her two boys , because children adore her and she has a natural affinity with them , and because she bravely enters fields which command respect ( shaking hands with AIDS victims for example ) . |
| 13 | ‘ She is strong and athletic ’ says Slater ‘ and she has a big serve . |
| 14 | Some of you may remember her because we stayed at her hotel er a little while ago and she has a lovely horse chestnut tree er outside her hotel and since we went it stopped producing conkers . |
| 15 | It is also lucky if the sun shines , there is a rainbow , and she sees a black cat , a chimney sweep or an elephant . |
| 16 | And she needs a new nappy or taken off altogether please . |
| 17 | Because she 's good in earthquakes and she makes a great cup of tea . |
| 18 | And he employs a zig-zag training sprint which involves a series of passes before the player finishes off by flinging himself at a rugby tackle bag ! |
| 19 | The winner is the one who jumps and crawls for the longest time , and he receives a blue ribbon to wear round his waist . |
| 20 | These , he maintains , are the likely examples which relate to the Florentine cantasi come prints ; and he presents a strong case for the performance of the polyphonic models , and not the monophonic ones as Giulio Cattin suggests . |
| 21 | But he was n't and he remains a beloved bear . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's good fun , and he plays a decent game of tennis . |
| 23 | And , I mean , if if he 's working and he gets a low wage he 'll be able to get Family Income Support . |
| 24 | The trouble is that each creditor wants all the other creditors to sign new loan deals , while he keeps his original loan agreement , so that there will be more money , and he gets a bigger slice of it . |
| 25 | Father Ross comes in specially and he gets a lovely breakfast in the parlour . |
| 26 | In case Esau has not yet got the message , he says to him , ‘ Accept , I pray you , my gift that is brought to you , ’ and he uses a new word for gift , berakah . |
| 27 | He has never asked me to read many putts ; he 's such a good reader of greens , and he says a professional golfer should putt by feel . |
| 28 | And he says a four-year-old promise by Middlesbrough Council and Cleveland County Council to rectify the problem has not been kept . |
| 29 | He has n't given up the practice but he 's , he 's still a partner and he does a large weekend duty for us all |
| 30 | Such a male has a territory so much better than that of neighbours that a ‘ polygyny threshold ’ is surpassed and he gains a second mate . |