Example sentences of "and [prep] a [noun] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After six years as Chairman , he knew all the important party figures and he became a dangerous foe ; in the National Union he combined with Selborne to mount a campaign against coalition and as a Birmingham MP he threatened even- Austen Chamberlain 's home base . |
| 2 | And as a television sport it 's also hard because all you see is a ball flying through the air and you have no sense of scale or depth . |
| 3 | So , for a card magic party you could have ‘ pick a card ’ , for a football party you could have ‘ score a goal ’ or ‘ touchdown ’ , and for a cowboy party you could have ‘ home on the range ’ . |
| 4 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
| 5 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 6 | And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside . |
| 7 | Pinnacle , a $40m outfit with 30 engineers , will sell direct in the US and via a sales agency it is employing . |
| 8 | Her National Gallery choices of pictures were examples of problems posed to artists by colour , and in a video talk she demonstrated how these artistic problems had been solved . |
| 9 | Our staff go off duty at 17.30 , and in a god wind they 'll got out to play . |
| 10 | They are different from the crows that caw in the trees above our Cages here in the south for their feathers are partly grey and in a moorland mist they seem bigger . |
| 11 | His conference speech was marked by the absence of any reference to membership of the European exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) , and in a BBC interview he added that he would have ‘ no announcement to make about that ’ in his key speech at the Mansion House next week . |
| 12 | ‘ And in a fairy story I 'd tell him to get lost , ’ Eve said , laughing . |
| 13 | There was a bar on the premises , and on a YCs night it would be filled with the laughter and gossip of young drinkers , some below the legal age of drinking . |
| 14 | But there 's the bloody place and on a Friday night I thought ooh bloody . |