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

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1 ‘ Ready , ’ Fabbiano said , and for just an instant Caroline felt a clutch of something that was very close to panic .
2 Then Julius glanced up at her , and for just an instant Jessamy seemed to see right through the protective shield with which he had surrounded himself .
3 Its brief revival was sparked by Dziekanowski who fed Tarasiewicz and for once a long shot had Shilton in trouble .
4 Strange beds have rarely agreed with me , and after only a short spell of somewhat troubled slumber , I awoke an hour or so ago .
5 Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU
6 He spoke movingly of his time in the trenches in the First War and of how a whole generation , many of them his friends , had been wiped out , of the effect that the unemployment of the 1930s had on his political thinking , of how being Prime Minister was less demanding than being an ordinary Minister , of ( and this with tears in his eyes ) his devotion to his late wife , who had fallen dead of a heart attack close to where we were sitting , of his belief in God .
7 Although I had ‘ backed up ’ on a floppy disc from the computer I lost both floppy and hard disc record on Friday ( yes 13th ) and it was all my address list — twenty pages this size of single line entries and with just a double space between As and Bs and Cs and Ds etc. ; I could have wept but had instead to laugh — only thing to do and a mistake or combination of same that I shall NOT make again .
8 Dr Meredith had already been sent for , but his lordship was of the view that my father should be moved out of the sun before the doctor 's arrival ; consequently , a bath-chair arrived and with not a little difficulty , my father was transported into the house .
9 But the next thing we knew he was all kitted out in a blue and white sailor suit , smelling sweetly of baby lotion and with not a wet patch to be seen .
10 The conflagration raged for many hours throughout the town , spreading rapidly through buildings already torn open by the blast , and with not a single person left alive to check it .
11 Number 141- an old bookshop , musty , cobwebbed and with not a single customer to be seen .
12 At sunset , however , after a day sunning themselves on deck , in perfect invasion weather , and with not an English ship or soldier in sight , the French weighed anchor and left , leaving the news of their presence to be spread by beacons and horsemen all over Devon and Cornwall .
13 He told the Street 's fan magazine that the soap was envisaged as lasting only 13 episodes — of which Warren wrote 12 — and with quite a different name .
14 Melissa spat out the word derisively and with quite an excessive amount of venom .
15 London time and with only a small hand-grip of toiletries moved quickly through Customs and into the concourse of Number Three Building .
16 ‘ After flying the plane I have a lot of respect for the guys , who at 20 years of age and with only a limited number of flight hours in a T-6 , soloed in this plane . ’
17 Mr Burcham was fortunately relieved from his perilous position , being deposited on terra firma safely and with only a slight bruise to mark his passage .
18 Group sales in the year ending 31st December 1992 increased by 40% to £15.7 ( excluding intragroup trading and with only a five-month contribution from Bookpoint ) .
19 And with only a few places available each year , it 's like a bottleneck near the top , and the harder it becomes .
20 The majority of the incomers who settled in these localities were young couples who were still committed to a strategy of occupational and residential mobility in order to further their career interests ; they were ‘ spiralists ’ , and with only a few exceptions , their residence does not seem to be permanent .
21 ‘ Come into the kitchen , ’ she said , and led the way across a small hall and into quite a large kitchen , dominated , Millie noticed , by an oblong table under which were a number of stools .
22 A team of six inspectors compiled the reports from visits to homes over last three months , and from almost a thousand questionnaires .
23 Recent surveys have suggested that parents want their children to learn about these things at school , and from quite an early age .
24 When immigrant children first enter the borough they are sent , if the education department has any doubts about their English , to an assessment centre , and from there a large proportion of them are channelled into reception classes .
25 So little irritations get filed away instead of being openly expressed and before long a boiling cauldron of repressed anger has extinguished their sexual fire .
26 I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe .
27 Sit down at your machine with a cassette player and knit , following Diane 's clear and helpful explanations and in just a few hours YOU will be the master of your machine !
28 The two goals and five points he conjured up against Antrim leaves him nine points clear of Wexford 's Tom Dempsey in the scoring charts , and in virtually an unassailable position .
29 Yes , the answers and comments of the students and your fellow-teachers will certainly be valuable to the project — they were helpful , interesting , and in quite a few cases enlightening in bringing up incidental considerations I had n't previously given enough thought to .
30 They are advised that they are potentially highly infectious when the ulcers are present and should refrain from intercourse ( should they cent of patients who develop genital herpes go on to have recurrent attacks , and in only a small proportion of these do the attacks occur so frequently as to disrupt life appreciably .
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