Example sentences of "[coord] a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time , as Adam said , you would actually have been shocked if the temperature had dropped or a shower of rain fallen . |
| 2 | Play rolling games : if you have n't got a ball , an orange or a roll of tape will do . |
| 3 | Decide if you are going to have any special sales offers or promotions ( eg selling last season 's Christmas cards at a reduced price , or a promotion on wrapping paper — 10p a sheet or six sheets for 50p ) . |
| 4 | There are few public meetings now and fewer serious discussions in pamphlets , or even books , of a kind that would have made sense to a novelist like Disraeli , or a scholar like Gladstone , to both of whom the idea of a ‘ speech writer ’ or of an advertising agency to identify the issues would have been absurd . |
| 5 | To read Gregory of Tours ' History of the Franks or Bede 's of the English people , or a poem like Beowulf , is to experience a world in which the new and the traditional , in culture and in religion , in law and institutions , are inextricable . |
| 6 | ‘ Is that a threat , Miss Mills , or a promise of promotion ? ’ |
| 7 | Where he had formerly regarded British devaluation or a retreat from East of Suez as totally contrary to American interests , he now believed that the damage to those interests would be tolerable if the British — by their own choice — embarked upon a long-term and systematic attempt to put their economy to rights . |
| 8 | The answers will help you decide whether you need say , one vast freezer , or a large one in the garage and a small one in the kitchen , or a microwave plus freezer . |
| 9 | Your physiology book or a text on dietetics will provide all the information you need about these substances , their sources and how they are used by the body . |
| 10 | She explained how they used to steal food , and how hard it was when she came to the Hogans , her first job , to realise she did n't have to take any stray biscuit or a fistful of sugar and put it into her apron . |
| 11 | Every so often there was a little crab corpse or a twist of sand thrown up by a sandworm or a streak of brilliant green weed like the hair of a water nymph and sometimes a smooth small rock and beside it a still , clear , tiny pool with mussels , blue black and pearly . |
| 12 | It is verbal irony when some character comes out with a statement or a choice of words which have a meaning to those in the know , either within the text or outside it , that is significantly different or even contradictory to that which the character may be supposed to have in mind . |
| 13 | This was followed by a row of cold sweets , including trifles , blancmanges , jellies , or a choice of cheeses or both for some of the younger , still-growing guests ! |
| 14 | Erm how often do you play , oh once a week or a couple of times a week , what sort of standard is it and what it 's doing is you 've got an opportunity to sound off about yourself and that 's who we are talking about is n't it ? |
| 15 | cos they go ooh for about three seconds or a couple of minutes and they 'll forget about it |
| 16 | The great majority live in Reykjavik or a couple of towns close to it , and that leaves the country wonderfully bare , especially in the centre — what remains of the population is concentrated on the coast , where the chief occupations of fishing and farming are best practised . |
| 17 | It 's tacky it 's erm well as soon as they come in the door they wan na walk out and that that 's an overall opinion that 's not just me or a couple of mates that 's everybody . |
| 18 | Each , each customer come out and she 'd say well I 'll have er three or four lamb chops or a couple of pork chops or whatsoever and you used to cut it as you went , then , with a van yeah . |
| 19 | Myth no. 3 : playing 18 holes of go If or a couple of sets of tennis at the weekend is enough to keep you fit Exercising once a week is not enough to make you fit . |
| 20 | Yeah , so what I 'm doing , I 'll these , gon na make about a hundred or one bit or a couple of bits and some butterfly cakes and the cakes and plates and cling film , charge them a quid , eight for a pound |
| 21 | I was offered a choice of steak and kidney pudding or a couple of chunks of local pig . |
| 22 | Everybody , now you 've also got to accept the high percentage of having nay got a clue , eh what they 're doing , even after a week or a couple of weeks and it should n't er be here , but if you get somebody , nice er Michelle or Cathy , eh , or eh Adel |
| 23 | Sometimes just one person like that or a couple of people ? |
| 24 | Erm no seriously I think it really should n't take long , you 're quite right to sort this matter out but I think three people really should go away and come back with a suggestion or a couple of suggestions . |
| 25 | Perhaps he only wanted a cigarette , or a couple of bob for the meter . |
| 26 | A single person , or a couple without children , extremely busy and not overly fond of cooking will almost certainly prefer a functional , working room that looks and is efficient . |
| 27 | The process by which colleagues are kept informed may differ from what is expected of them in building up either a school development plan or a scheme of quality assurance . |
| 28 | Or a technician with tape recorders and tape copying equipment experience . |
| 29 | She remembered the difficulties they 'd had repairing Starlings after the war , when you could n't get a brick or a plank of wood , not even if you was royalty ; and she remembered comforting Nell as each granddaughter left home . |
| 30 | Yet it is not absolute in the sense that it is principle apart from morality on which morality itself is founded or a blueprint for conduct which allows for no exceptions . |