Example sentences of "[num] man [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sky are determined to disprove the hackneyed managerial cliche that ‘ it 's all about 90 minutes ’ with a variety show that goes far beyond 22 men and a ball . |
| 2 | The bodies of 10 men and a woman had been found by a roadside with their hands ties behind their backs ; they bore signs of torture and had been shot in the head , a hallmark of right-wing paramilitary groups whose members included military personnel . |
| 3 | POLICE hunting the contract killers of accountant David Wilson arrested six men and a woman yesterday . |
| 4 | There were three men and a girl in it . |
| 5 | It will be remembered that Dudley and Stephens was the case where three men and a cabin-boy were compelled to take to an open boat after the wreck of their yacht Mignonette . |
| 6 | THREE men and a boy died yesterday after two cars collided on a village road . |
| 7 | Three men and a boy were shot dead and , when tents were set ablaze , two women and eleven children who had hidden in an underground cellar , were suffocated by smoke . |
| 8 | Think of Three Men and a Baby . |
| 9 | Then there was the world premiere of the latest film by Cone Serreau , France 's top-grossing director , due to her smash hit Trois hommes et un couffin , re-made as Three Men and a Baby . |
| 10 | As with so many recent American hits ( Three Men and a Baby , Scent of a Woman and Sommersby to name but three ) Hollywood has simply stolen a good Euro idea and churned it out . |
| 11 | As with so many recent American hits ( Three Men and a Baby , Scent of a Woman and Sommersby to name but three ) Hollywood has simply stolen a good Euro idea and churned it out . |
| 12 | For , as Renault itself has admitted ( ‘ Three men and a car company ’ , Autocar & Motor , 20 February ) the French maker 's reputation for quality was a tad patchy before the 19 was introduced two years ago . |
| 13 | The incident occurred 48 hours after three men and a woman were shot dead allegedly infiltrating up the River Tigris by boat . |
| 14 | In the midnight stillness , Rozanov pointed out that we were three men and a woman — as in Pushkin 's story about improvisation , Egyptian Nights . |
| 15 | The tale soon ran round Devonport — of a dead body carried across country by three men and a woman . |
| 16 | They were a group of three men and a woman , patrolling the Central Line trains westbound from Oxford Circus . |
| 17 | There were four of them — three men and a woman , as was later revealed , though , that they are tall and broad of shoulder and walked with that kind of lithe confidence and grace seen in GalactiGames athletes in peak condition . |
| 18 | Three men and a woman are being questioned by police in connection with the murder of a car dealer whose remains were found in a lake . |
| 19 | Instead , she was wondering what kind of remedy Kate Adie used whenever she got a head-blocker , and whether she 'd ever had to read over livestock prices to what was probably a total early-morning audience of three men and a dog . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a game about 11 men and a ball , Elton ’ is enough to get you quoted on Saint and Greavsie , but anything cleverer should be kept to yourself . |
| 21 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |
| 22 | ‘ The rate of work with an umbilical hose system is much higher than that you could achieve with one man and a tanker driving from store to field . ’ |
| 23 | Not one man and a girl in a storm like this . |
| 24 | As a result , many stations are now programmed by one man and a computer . |
| 25 | BSM has 18% of a highly fragmented market ( many driving schools are just one man and a car ) , more than 2,000 vehicles and 130 outlets in the UK . |
| 26 | The equipment needed was quite elementary — padded trestles to lay the wings on , and cradles for holding them upright , small portable drilling machines and riveting guns and general metal fitting tools for one man and a woman assistant at each repair position . |
| 27 | A world leader with the security industry is actually going down to the levels of the one man and a dog outfit . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's me , the agent , one man and a dog but the response has been terrific . |
| 29 | All the accused , nine men and a woman , are charged with conspiracy to supply heroin and will appear before the city 's magistrates court . |
| 30 | Last Friday , a sheriff at Kilmarnock granted Cunninghame District Council an eviction notice on the nine men and a woman living at a house in Gladstone Road , Saltcoats , Ayrshire . |