Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 If I was some fucking private eye or something I 'd head back out to Mr Azul 's big house and break in somehow and find something really interesting or a body or a beautiful woman ( or just get slugged on the back of the head and wake up wise-cracking ) .
2 For women , tight trousers and top or a leotard or swimsuit ; for men , swimming trunks would be ideal .
3 He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience .
4 Mr Donovan , 23 , Australian star of the West End hit musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , brought the action after the magazine published a doctored photograph and article which , he claimed , implied that he was homosexual and a liar and hypocrite for denying it .
5 It should be obvious that a dissonance sounded by one instrument must be resolved by that instrument ( unless there is a complete break-off and a rest or pause separating the discord from what follows ) , but it is the writer 's experience that beginners do not always realize the musical necessity for this .
6 That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours .
7 ‘ It was sad and a joke and it just backfired , ’ she said .
8 AS SENIOR Civil Servants go , Nick Montagu , 45 and an Under-Secretary and principal establishments officer at the Department of Social Security , has one of the biggest burdens in the business on his shoulders .
9 Sir Charles Robinson considered him ignorant and an upstart and would not use his water , preferring to build his own reservoir at Newton .
10 But in another sense they raise a much more serious issue , one likely to arise in many jurisdictions whenever the defendant is not an individual but a corporation or some other form of association ; and it will be recognised that a very great proportion of international litigation does involve corporate defendants .
11 The race will be over 5 miles instead of eight and a quarter and is being arranged with the help of Loftus AC road race organiser Peter Clifford .
12 I said , you 're gon na come in at two per cent , and I 'm gon na come in at twenty-two , and we both know that actually we 're gon na up finish between eight and a half and nine , do n't we ?
13 ‘ Between the two of them , he owed between three and a half and four and a half thousand dollars , just for cocaine for that weekend . ’
14 They told us three and a half , but there again a lot of rescue people do cut the ages of their dog , but , but , our , our two vets agreed he was around three and a half , between three and a half and four , look at his teeth and his coat and his bones .
15 Depends what er this time of year about three and a half and then four in the winter .
16 With me in the studio is journalist , Dorothy Grace Elder who sixteen months ago weighed in at fourteen and a half and was perfectly happy with it .
17 That women 's seventy and a day and she 's got the body of a young girl !
18 thing and that 's without a pump , so to set up it 'll cost me probably a thousand and a bit and I want and then I 'll need to have the rest of the money left over to survive
19 It 's a sort of slight relaxing and an aphrodisiac and it 's supposed to help your headaches .
20 Swimfeeders are plastic tubes from two to four inches long and an inch or so in diameter .
21 And you 're forty something and straight and divorced and celibate and a mother and I could n't have found a more complicated situation to fall in love with .
22 He was equable and a pessimist and very gay in everyday life .
23 History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all .
24 This coupling between group modes of the same symmetry should not be confused with Fermi resonance between a fundamental and an overtone or combination of the same symmetry [ see Section 5.8.6 above ] ; in the case of coupling between fundamental group modes there is no violation of the vibrational selection rule .
25 Under the 1944 and 1948 Education Acts such schools would have been illegal : pupils must be transferred from primary to secondary between the ages of ten and a half and twelve .
26 you 're shoe was size twelve and a half but we have to buy thirteens for trainers
27 Because from the age of seventeen to twenty nine I worked on building sites , and that got boring so I changed and I changed and became a policeman , and I ca became a policeman when I was twenty nine and a half and it 's , I 've enjoyed it ever since cos every day is interesting , every day is different , every day is unusual .
28 The standard charge is set by the local council , and can be zero , one half , equal to , one and a half or twice the cost of the personal community charge in the area .
29 If you are using Fisherman 's rib or tuck stitch , the fabric will stretch widthways when removed from the machine , so you will need to increase the stitch by one and a half or two numbers to prevent a tight cast off .
30 er they only pay sort of one and a half or twice that 's the , that 's the purpose of the Tories
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