Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In old age Arthur would still come to the brewery for an hour or two every day and later ride on horseback to his flour mills at Kilmainham . |
| 2 | ‘ She arranged for me to be companion to an old lady , the mother of a friend of theirs , for an hour or two a day . |
| 3 | I myself spend an hour or two a day in the garden hut with my father-in-law , dismantling the baby 's cot and highchair . |
| 4 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
| 5 | One more pair of hands for an hour or two a week can be a godsend for this very worthwhile and rewarding ‘ back bone ’ work . |
| 6 | If it only takes you an hour or two a week to run your administration , then you do n't yet need a computer . |
| 7 | when a single entry or all the entries in the range are cross-referenced by other entries . |
| 8 | when a single entry or all the entries in the range cross-reference other entries . |
| 9 | During the first two weeks on the Scarsdale Medical Diet , you will be delighted and encouraged by rapid weight loss , actually seeing on the scale that pounds are dropping off day by day ( not that discouraging pound or two a week ) . |
| 10 | Apart from adding a starter , you can add bacteria and ‘ seed ’ ; the tank by adding water from an already sound tank ; by adding media ( say gravel from the undergravel or half a filter sponge ) to the filter ; and by washing out a mature in-use filter in the new tank . |
| 11 | But his cash income of 80 yuan a month , even when supplemented by the sale of a pig or two a year , gives the family a yearly cash income of no more than 1,500 yuan . |
| 12 | I could see it running in her until it overflowed , and as fast as it ran more grief took its place until the lane and the streams ran with grief and all the valley was the colour of grief . |
| 13 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 14 | The slip row of the cycle is alright as , when the side lever is on 0 , the carriage in effect ignores the card and all the needles still slip . |
| 15 | All the offices were still within the partnership and all the partners still had joint and several responsibility , but the bank said no . |
| 16 | But inside the bag he found a device to unlock cars , a pair of bolt cutters , a two pound hammer and all the equipment needed to steal car radios . |
| 17 | The slight , disparaging inflexion on the last word annoyed Mr Pigdon , but he gruffly assured the gentleman that he should have the best spare bedroom and all the comforts his poor house might afford . |
| 18 | Until then , if you really need the additional speed and own a machine with a standard ISA bus and a 386DX processor then at approximately £350 the RapidCad Engineering Coprocessor is technically the second best upgrade . |
| 19 | Er , sorry President , worthy President and all the rest of it , what I 'm saying is that we 're totally opposed to it because what you 're going to have here is , you 're gon na have a situation where branches , branches , you gon na have them fighting between branches and the C E C |
| 20 | The distinction is particularly easy to draw in the fields of mathematics , music , electronics , and modern languages , but in history and geography and all the sciences it is essential to draw the distinction as well . |
| 21 | I loved the Club and all the Girls . |
| 22 | A German visitor lost his in the silence of a British Rail first-class compartment and uncoupled the coach as a gesture of solidarity with the plebs in the second class . |
| 23 | It seemed that all her concentration and all the power of every muscle in her body were focused on the point where her fist struck the bull 's back . |
| 24 | I 've done as much as I can to make it comfortable , but , among other things , it needs a modern bathroom , a new roof and all the windows replaced . |
| 25 | There is at least one in each department and all the security men are also fully trained . |
| 26 | One cup of tea and half a custard tart later it dawned on her that she felt a remarkable glow of well-being , for someone in her particular dilemma . |
| 27 | Medical experts told the court that they found cocaine and half a bottle of whisky in Kim Brockwell 's body . |
| 28 | She felt so alone , so very frightened of the future and all the challenges it held . |
| 29 | The factory and freeze ships , they stay at sea , gobbling up krill and all the fish their boats bring them , and when they are full , they go straight back to Russia , Poland , wherever they come from , or if they haf trouble , they go to the Atlantic ports further north , in Argentine or Brazil . |
| 30 | Although this sovereign was half the weight and half the diameter of the original one , such was the international respect it enjoyed that people could travel through Europe confident that the coins would be welcomed wherever they went . |