Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would have suited me that and a loaf of bread . |
| 2 | when I lost my six and a half stone |
| 3 | My two and a quarter petrol 1981 SWB would have needed an expensive conversion to run on unleaded petrol so I am using Carbonflo instead . |
| 4 | Can you tell me the year of manufacture of my two and a quarter petrol engine number 90110300A . |
| 5 | To achieve more power for towing in my two and a quarter petrol County , I want to fit a Rover 3.5 SD1 engine . |
| 6 | Navan consisted of an attractive brick-and-tile shopping street , with a four-pronged C. of I. church that nobody used and a bridge over a river . |
| 7 | We did a lot of talking , of course , and then it was decided that we could possibly raise some money by going to the League of Friends , which we did , and they very generously provided well in fact the whole total is about five thousand pounds , of which three and a half thousands represents the computer , and we 're about to go live , as it were , in a week or two . |
| 8 | In answer there was a splashing to their left and a second whoop of laughter . |
| 9 | Even more documentation arrives with SuperCalc 5.5 , mainly because the data manipulation features are given a book of their own and a name — Silverado . |
| 10 | The trolley also had a mind of its own and a tendency to advance crablike , sideways . |
| 11 | Or perhaps it was just lack of choice , the need for a home of her own and a child . |
| 12 | A kind woman , she had had three children of her own and a heart as large as her ample body . |
| 13 | Sonny had been Thailand 's foremost classical dancing teacher , with a school of her own and a television programme . |
| 14 | Carrie had Nick 's case as well as her own and a carrier bag with a broken string handle . |
| 15 | A multi-millionairess with a fortune estimated at more than £10 million , a property tycoon in Australia where she was spending a fortune renovating her latest acquisition , a mammoth Victorian town house in the Melbourne suburbs , a singer poised to come of age with a backing band of her own and a world tour — the hologramic face of high technology in Japan , how could she ever again have been expected to have slipped into oily dungarees to tinker with the engine of a Land Rover ? |
| 16 | Liz , now in her mid-eighties and a widow , is in a West German hospice . |
| 17 | I earn me three and a tanner . ’ |
| 18 | An owl-hoot startled them all and a soldier cursed as the bird sailed low over their heads , plunging in the grass to seize some little creature which squirmed in its death agonies . |
| 19 | If it 's too long for you , just let me know and I 'll find something shorter and a bit easier . ’ |
| 20 | The winners will get a contract with EMI 's Parlophone — the label that launched The Beatles — - to produce one single and a video . |
| 21 | Anyone with a passing knowledge of astrological influences will realize that he was born on the cusp , a Taurus caught in the influence of Aries , which makes him bullish and a bit of a ram . |
| 22 | The following year Ballesteros became involved in an endless , tiresome hassle over appearance money that left him isolated and a stranger on the European Tour . |
| 23 | I give him two and a half . |
| 24 | She found it strange and a trifle exciting to sit at the cafe tables , and watch Wehrmacht , Luftwaffe and Nazi naval personnel walking in the leafy boulevards . |
| 25 | When he succeeded to the English throne in 1272 Edward I was already in his thirties and a man of wide experience . |
| 26 | After understanding this , you need to learn as much as possible about what makes him " tick " ; how does he handle himself in business ; what are his job ambitions ; is he married and a family man or still single ; what are his interests in sports , gardening , sailing and other leisure pursuits ; can you define his life style . |
| 27 | In the canteen queue , Marcus was startled to see that the two men in front were holding hands : a lumbering man in his twenties and a boy who did n't look old enough to be in prison , who was as pretty as a girl . |
| 28 | Clearly , Jose was speaking from the perspective of a Nigerian journalist : much of what he said was true only of his own and a handful of other countries . |
| 29 | Is it trivial and a result of the state simply being slow in adapting to contemporary patterns of gender relations , and new patterns of women 's employment in particular ? |
| 30 | Terry did n't appear to have thought about this before and he puzzled over it , staring into his bitter and a bag of smoky bacon crisps . |