Example sentences of "a [noun] and [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been half-expecting a trial and then a labour camp but instead , there was an ambulance . |
| 2 | Most remarkable was the way in which cat and dog , owl and rat , fox and ferret , pets of all sorts calmly ignored each other throughout , with never a bark and hardly a whine |
| 3 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 4 | Much of what he wrote was , essentially , a defence and even a celebration of ‘ war communism ’ . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ I heard a click and then a shot and one of our cats , Fluffy , came running into the garden . |
| 6 | I 'm going to send it away and y for twenty five points on the back twenty five points you get a silver badge for a beginner and then a gold |
| 7 | Combination techniques comprise a host of different moves , a kick and follow-up punch , for example , or a double-kick and then a punch . |
| 8 | This transformation occurred primarily in the northern and western provinces , which were always more of a liability and less a source of wealth and culture than the southern and eastern provinces . |
| 9 | But at once , for very fear that the bearded man who had reached out as I struggled with my hamper ( ‘ No , no , I do very well , thank you ’ ) might follow me and find out everything , I hailed a porter and then a cab , assuming a confidence I did not feel . |
| 10 | To be late would earn a reprimand and possibly a warning from those who stood above them . |
| 11 | It is from Paul , and Paul alone , that a new religion begins to emerge — not a form of Judaism , but a rival and ultimately an adversary to Judaism . |
| 12 | During the 19th century , however , it fell on hard times , and was turned first into a warehouse and then a restaurant . |
| 13 | Oh yeah , it 's got a group of pleats and then a gap and then a group of pleats , mm . |
| 14 | He had gone to stay at a monastery and somehow a misunderstanding arose and he was asked if he had been baptised . |
| 15 | The experience of being molested once as a child and then a man jumping in her car at 21 yrs and her running away remained with her so that she has persistent fear of being attacked and the sense of someone being behind her . |
| 16 | You 've got to learn to be a toddler from a baby , you 've got to learn to be a child and then a teenager . |
| 17 | The charges allege that on various occasions over the 14 months to August last year at the home , she assaulted one woman by throwing her from her bed on to a chair then a commode , putting her in a bath against her will and pulling her along a corridor , and of assaulting the second woman in a similar manner by throwing her from her bed on to a wheelchair and then a commode , dragging her across a room and tying her to a chair . |
| 18 | Alright , erm , well I remember how do I get a sub-title and then a total at the bottom ? |
| 19 | I traded the £15 machine for a punchcard model , soon adding a ribber and later an intarsia carriage and colour changer . |
| 20 | It may be necessary to get reports from an orthopaedic surgeon , a neurologist and perhaps a plastic surgeon . |
| 21 | Was this , he asked , a European and even a world record ? |
| 22 | As a schoolmaster and later a headmaster his distinction was unexceeded by any in his profession , and the affection in which he is held by his former pupils is equal to that accorded to the legendary Mr Chips . |
| 23 | He was a muncher and sometimes a devourer . |
| 24 | At last , jamming a fist and then a boot between rock and shrunken ice , I fingered a flake and heaved myself a cheval onto a sunlit stance , metres from the summit . |
| 25 | This is best controlled with either a tablet and either a stylus or a puck but , given a steady hand , it works pretty well with a mouse . |
| 26 | Revealing exceptional dexterity , he progressed rapidly to employment with a silversmith and then a bijoutier . |
| 27 | erm Juliette Hunting is a teacher and also a governor of the school . |
| 28 | It was quite unclear where the money would come from , but the first necessity was to secure a place and preferably an award . |
| 29 | There are lots of things in this erm erm do notice that Locke is emphasising that by the social contract individuals establish a unitary body , a community and furthermore a community which has the capacity to act . |
| 30 | , Peter Taylor ( 1848–1921 ) , Congregational minister , was born 12 May 1848 in Aberdeen , the eldest child in the family of two sons and three daughters of Isaac Forsyth , a bookseller and later a postman , from the Cabrach , and his wife Elspet McPherson , a crofter 's daughter from Kingussie in the Highlands . |