Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] an [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I remember an earlier epoch when the geologists were told by the physicists , including the great Lord Kelvin himself , that they were foolish to postulate so many millions of years for earth history , when it could easily be calculated from classic physics that this was quite impossible . |
| 2 | The bird has a piercing yellow eye and I think an older generation of wild-fowlers still refers to it as the golden-eye although that name , strictly speaking , belongs to an entirely different species . |
| 3 | She said Judge Allen should have made an example of Clarke and she criticised an earlier sentence he received for a 1983 drink driving offence — a £150 fine and 18-month ban . |
| 4 | His mother remarried , and he had an elder sister and a half-brother . |
| 5 | His mother was an unnamed cousin of Siward , Earl of Northumberland [ q.v. ] , and he had an elder brother , Malcolm III [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | And he has an older brother who tells him , sometimes , what to do . ’ |