Example sentences of "a [noun] and [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These bets would be handed over to a runner and signed with each man 's racing nom de plume , be it his nickname or any other name he considered lucky . |
| 2 | When he started at Balmain he was hired as a sketcher and worked with six other people in the bureau de dessin . |
| 3 | My mother wanted to live a posh life and have dinner parties with other rich Jews and cook gefilte fish and wear a wig and dance with fashionable rabbis at weddings , you can imagine how Dad took to that . |
| 4 | Bryn was disguised as a priest and issued with false documents to deceive the enemy . |
| 5 | She squelched through the mud at a half-trot and hoped with all her heart that someone , after all this agony , would be in ; a kind , exceptionally friendly family would be nice ; the elder son could be a brilliant mechanic and would mend her jeep with the proverbial wave of his spanner , the mother could be a fantastic cook . |
| 6 | In one boot was thrust a riding crop , unusual in that it was as long as a spear and tipped with tiny steel barbs . |
| 7 | A Medic plucked out a needle-pistol and fired with splendid accuracy at Bjortson 's muscle-corded neck . |
| 8 | Candidates will be assigned an office role within a scenario and provided with ample data on which to base an adequate answer . |
| 9 | Northam 's poet sat glumly in a corner with a plateful and a pint and watched with silent outrage , as was his way . |
| 10 | Stop that mid-day shine by blotting your face with a tissue and dusting with translucent powder . |
| 11 | She lit a cigarette and inhaled with sensual enjoyment . |
| 12 | A few stuck behind a sink and framed with wooden beading gives the effect of an old-fashioned washstand , and is an easy project to tackle . |
| 13 | His family were shown outside , loading a donkey and preparing with sad looks for their journey into exile . |
| 14 | B2 Can sail a triangle and cope with stronger puffs of wind . |
| 15 | A good 100 yards ( 90 m ) away from him , at the water 's edge , was a family of wild pigs , a boar and sow with six or seven piglets . |
| 16 | Not being averse to a challenge and imbued with extra fervour from the conference , the women , all dykes , ordered fifteen hot whiskies . |
| 17 | Already for nearly a century the syllabub had been keeping company with the trifle , and in due course the trifle came to reign in the syllabub 's stead ; and before long the party pudding of the English was not any more the fragile whip of cream contained in a little glass , concealing within its innocent white froth a powerful alcoholic punch , but a built-up confection of sponge fingers and ratafias soaked in wine and brandy , spread with jam , clothed in an egg-and-cream custard , topped with a syllabub and strewn with little coloured comfits . |
| 18 | Place the mushrooms in a bowl and cover with boiling water . |
| 19 | The two 6BA screws for the ‘ wicket ’ l.e.d.s and the gimp pins for the anchorage of the others must be fitted and the surface blemishes left by these levelled off with a filler and smoothed with fine sandpaper , before anything else is done . |
| 20 | It has long , though straw which is much sought-after by thatchers and harness-makers , and , if put through a chaff-cutter and mixed with chopped roots , is readily eaten by cattle . |