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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Number 141- an old bookshop , musty , cobwebbed and with not a single customer to be seen . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Melissa spat out the word derisively and with quite an excessive amount of venom . |
| 13 | London time and with only a small hand-grip of toiletries moved quickly through Customs and into the concourse of Number Three Building . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Recent surveys have suggested that parents want their children to learn about these things at school , and from quite an early age . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So then , with no better grace and without even a passing thought for Josie 's safety , Lucy pinned back her own hair and began to carry out the makeup job that she 'd undergone so many times before . |
| 24 | So the girls threw the hairbrush behind them , and at once a dense thicket grew up . |
| 25 | Despite occasional minor recessions and balance of payments crises , full employment and at least a tolerable degree of stability are likely to be maintained . |
| 26 | Although it is obviously accurate to call an incipient spin a stall with a wing-drop , I think that this is trying to avoid the issue , which is that it is really the beginning of a spin and at least a potential spin . |
| 27 | All have been inspected and found to offer high standards of cleanliness and at least an adequate range of equipment . |
| 28 | Despite his immense forces ( though Bede or his sources may have exaggerated Cadwallon 's numerical superiority for dramatic effect ) , it was Cadwallon who proved the more vulnerable , far from home and by now an isolated member of the alliance which had conspired to defeat Eadwine . |