Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1341 England and France found both a cause and a theatre of war in which they might meddle further . |
| 2 | IDEAL HOME 's Assistant editor Helen Barnett spent a day relaxing at Henlow Grange Health Farm in Bedfordshire where she tried both an aromatherapy and a reflexology massage . |
| 3 | After about a month I rang and was told I 'd be hearing something soon , and when I did n't I phoned again a month or so later and was told the same . |
| 4 | It 's thought the attackers used either a knife or a wooden stake . |
| 5 | Diners used either a fork or a knife to eat their food until the idea of putting the two together was imported from Italy in 1608 . |
| 6 | Actor and acted-upon were either human ( e.g. , a girl , a milkman ) , animal ( e.g. a cow , a horse ) or inanimate ( e.g. a bicycle , a ball ) and the depicted action involved either an actor and acted-upon of the same class ( e.g. two humans ) or a different class ( e.g. a human and an animal ) . |
| 7 | The same car registered just a week or two later in January will be worth several hundred pounds more when it 's time to trade it in . |
| 8 | One man wiped away a tear and said : ‘ This is the night of Little Rock 's redemption . ’ |
| 9 | Then the door creaked open an inch or two . |
| 10 | He was caught on the sciatic nerve and suffered only a dead-leg and an abrasion . |
| 11 | Mrs Hellyer only came once a week and though Dad did some of the housework , shuffling round in the mornings and yawning , almost everything had a skin of dust over it and smelt mouldy , like furniture stored in an attic . |
| 12 | ‘ If it 's any consolation , ’ she murmured contentedly a minute or so later , ‘ I was pea-green with jealousy when you went out that night . ’ |
| 13 | And they they failed then you see with cutting the crop with a scythe and they hired then a tractor and binder to cut the crop . |
| 14 | Yes , oh yes , you learnt quite a lot and er much depended on er the teacher , of course , they were n't as bound as er teachers had been . |
| 15 | They were part of the Cicero Club , a society which met once a month or so to discuss famous unsolved mysteries . |
| 16 | Ace threw open a door and she collapsed behind it , just having the nerve to click the bolt before events overtook her . |
| 17 | But whether his cunningly mounted fantasies hid ultimately a wisdom or a lunacy I could not decide . |
| 18 | Yet our eyes lingered , and hers conveyed both an indication and a warning : Subtlety may win me , but force never will . |
| 19 | This statement paved the way for and was indeed reiterated in Roberts in which the Court of Appeal held that consent had on the facts been terminated where there was a formal deed of separation , even though this lacked both a non-cohabitation and a non-molestation clause . |
| 20 | Eight of these companies owned both a morning and an evening paper ( the Scotsman and the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch , for example , and the Nottingham Guardian and Evening Post ) . |
| 21 | In such conflicts , Haigh notes , religious policy , on which obedience could be crucially tested , became both a weapon and a prize . |
| 22 | They spent only a minute or so at each tree , cleaning off dried latex , adjusting the collecting supports and making new incisions through which the day 's latex could escape . |
| 23 | Silver sent Dick to fetch the rum , then Israel said something to the cook in a low voice , and I heard only a word or two . |
| 24 | The barmaid swung open a door and switched on the light . |
| 25 | She walked away a step or two into the frost-sharp wind , then spun back into the lee of the burrow-mouth to face Ember . |
| 26 | I used the time by moving from the Temple to Peel Square — not a formidable job , for it required only a suitcase and a taxi . |
| 27 | In particular , most of the early Verkehrsberuhigung work had involved schemes that covered only a street or two with low traffic flows , so little was known about the benefits or drawbacks to the wider urban area . |
| 28 | He pulled open a door and took out a decanter and a balloon snifter . |
| 29 | A stocky , red-faced fellow with hairy warts round his mouth grinned a gap-toothed smile , pulled open a shutter and let fly with a huge arbalest . |
| 30 | In my first week , I lost nearly a stone but since then I 've only lost a couple of pounds a week . |