Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd began to swell a little and the man was joined by a friend . |
| 2 | Nor could she then justify employing a cleaner and the odd-job man who kept all the local gardens more or less under control . |
| 3 | Very often , I have gone to interview somebody , having told them I want a two and a half minute interview , and I want to cover roughly the following five topics . |
| 4 | You want a thin and a thick did you say , yeah ? |
| 5 | A person 25 per cent over their normal weight range has a two and a half times greater chance of having a heart attack , hypertension , or a stroke . |
| 6 | He argued that ‘ equality of opportunity ’ has a weak and a strong sense . |
| 7 | The AVHRR sensor carried by the NOAA satellites has a visible and a short-wave infrared band , and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington , DC produces global vegetation maps on a routine basis using the ratio transform outlined above . |
| 8 | Mathematics , minimalism , and an almost Roman sense of order are the hallmarks of Ungers ' works — in 1992 at the Philomene Magers gallery he installed a horizontal and a vertical beam , made of wood and plexiglass respectively : the x and y axes of an imaginary co-ordinate system . |
| 9 | And if Jesus is consubstantial with God , the Kingdom of Heaven need not be something that will be inaugurated on earth in the immediate future , but something external — another realm , another dimension , in which one can expect a welcome and a reserved place on one 's death . |
| 10 | So if we added a third and a quarter could you turn them into twelfths ? |
| 11 | But Leeman 's experienced trio added a three and a two to go through 20-16 . |
| 12 | So she 's spending a third on stationery , she 's saving a third and the other third has got to be split up between |
| 13 | The woman , who has not been named , suffered a one and a half hour ordeal in her car , which only ended after the Ford Fiesta broke down in Cheshire . |
| 14 | In the next parliament , which assembled in September 1337 , the commons granted a tenth and a fifteenth to be levied each year for the next three years . |
| 15 | ‘ Three neighbouring resorts of fine , golden beaches , resorts where life assumes a relaxed and an unhurried pace . ’ |
| 16 | The differential aspect means that an operational amplifier possesses a noninverting and an inverting input terminal , the sign of any signal applied between these terminals and the common rail being respectively preserved and reversed at the output . |
| 17 | But we hope so , but I do n't I 'm not facetious enough to think that I can change a personality in a person , but what we 're trying to do is make him feel a loving and a commitment , that we are providing him with the best we can . |
| 18 | He was made a trusty and the other prisoners got on well with him . |
| 19 | ‘ In my lunch hour I run a three and a half mile circuit of the village where I work . |
| 20 | the West Midlands has hauled a seven and a half ton truck from Great Ormond Street hospital to Birmingham Children 's Hospital to raise money . |
| 21 | Three police forces have joined together to buy a one and a half million pound helicopter . |
| 22 | and you put the cluster of wool in it and pull it back and it 's like little bobbles of wool and er I 've got a beige and a brown I 've done it with it will look nice you know , it will come right here , it 's a beautiful rug , quite nice , so I 've been busy and I make coat hangers |
| 23 | I wonder who 's got a blue and a red ! |
| 24 | you 've got two , that 's not your , you 've got two national speed limits , you 've got a sixty and a seventy , seventy is for like a dual carriageway and a motorway , sixty is a single carriageway cos it 's only two way traffic |
| 25 | and like you 've sort of got a yellow and a green , they 've put like an olive in that , an olive colour , but I have n't got colours that I can |
| 26 | I 've got a red and a blue , I 'm sorry I have n't got yellow and green |
| 27 | He had had a varied and an outstanding career . |
| 28 | When presenting a classical and a modern piece women may use a practice skirt for one selection which can be used over jeans , or another skirt . |
| 29 | that the reference to the accounts could not be viewed accurately without viewing the statutory statement of business which filed only just a month or so back reveals a sixteen and a half billion surplus in the members premium trust fund up from twelve and a half billion at the end of proceeding year . |
| 30 | This reproduction from a thirteenth century chess manual shows a Christian and a Moslem playing a game . |