Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one hand he carried a canvas satchel , some maps and a flashlight , which he added to the pile before eyeing her find . |
| 2 | Apart from a few independents and a handful of dissidents the only candidates among whom the elector can choose will be those that the parties have seen fit to put before him . |
| 3 | In the box Boy kept a few books and a lot of letters ; apart from his clothes these were about the only things he had in the flat that were his own . |
| 4 | After India , Poland , Munich , quick trip to Milan to see Berio and Eco , Paris , Queneau unwell , Butor planning book on Diabelli Variations , that man is an interpretative machine , Paz said , whatever you feed him he devours in a few months and a year later out comes a book . |
| 5 | Three pitches later , nine Czechs , some Scots and a couple of English pseudo-Scots posed for summit pictures below the Czech flag on the highest tower in Adrspach . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're building some shops and a hotel there too . |
| 7 | When filming was over there was a little party , a few speeches and a lot of tears . |
| 8 | Future projects include further explorations in collage and a trip later this year with a friend to South America with a view to producing some articles and a book for publication — ‘ with an unusual edge ’ , adds Dawson mysteriously . |
| 9 | Future projects include further explorations in collage and a trip later this year with a friend to South America with a view to producing some articles and a book for publication — ‘ with an unusual edge ’ , adds Dawson mysteriously . |
| 10 | The room looked like the dining room ; a sideboard with some bottles and a bowl of fruit on it was visible , and Penelope was now able to see that the remains of a kind of meal — a loaf of bread , a hunk of orange-coloured cheese and two glasses — were set out on one half of the table . |
| 11 | The stone covered a small burial chamber in which four small incinerary urns were discovered , together with some bones and a quantity of yellow soil . |
| 12 | ‘ We pick them up , ’ the Skull was saying , ‘ they 're guys with no links , like on the pier or down in the meat streets , they 're always suckers for a few lines and a limousine . |
| 13 | She checked , but saw only a few photographs of a passing-out parade , a map , some pens and a blotter . |
| 14 | Obviously you can have photocopies or laser prints copied on to this material , but I have here some pens and a box of blank acetates which you will have the opportunity later to use if you so wish . |
| 15 | And then you know , when you check up on it , the following day , you probably find the council 's been back in and forgot to secure it , so we 've got s a nail and some nails and a hammer , and we 'll er just re-secure it and let the the council know in the morning . |
| 16 | The sequence involves the presenter of the programme entering the shop and buying some postcards and a souvenir of York . |
| 17 | There 's also a general view in the community that community care itself is not necessarily really working very well , there 's some fears about it , some uncertainties and a member did mention , it may have been Jim you know or somebody mentioned about the seven hours domiciliary , from my experience as a councillor I am not sure that simply because that figure exists that that means that that is satisfying the need of those people and in any case the sort of people who need to go into residential care , who can no longer be maintained in their home , with whatever help we give them or with whatever help their family have to give them they 're not necessarily the sort of people who we 're talking about need to go in a home . |
| 18 | Ms Coward graduated from Colchester Institute becoming one of the country 's few gemmologists and a fellow of the Gemmological Association . |
| 19 | But apart from a few sparrows and a robin redbreast the branches were bare . |
| 20 | Once a lady aid a daughter , remote cousins or friends of friends , came , and the girl left me with a yearning heart for some days and a curiosity for years like my curiosity about the lost childish books . |
| 21 | Since the length of the lunar month is about twenty-nine and a half days and a calendar month can not contain a fractional part of a day , it was arranged that the calendar months were alternately of twenty-nine and thirty days . |
| 22 | For example , education or social services might , under such a system , be a district responsibility in some Places and a county responsibility in others . |
| 23 | I predict a defeat for the scum at Man city this saturday , a win for Leeds against chelsea , a win for New Earswick ( my team ) on saturday and on sunday and a few jars and a curry on saturday night to make this week a truly memorable one . |
| 24 | Erm I 'll also be buying erm your keyboard , some tapes and a couple of ribbons . |
| 25 | This provided her with some seeds and a loan to buy a goat . |
| 26 | Half a dozen lapwings are feeding on a potato field along with some sparrows and a party of twite , and I spot the white wing-flashes of a cock chaffinch among the black earth . |
| 27 | For example , the need for some modifications became apparent ; the rephrasing of some questions and a refocusing of emphasis towards texts used in Secondary schools would have been helpful . |
| 28 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 29 | Some glasses and a couple of theatrical masks = sexee NME cover about The Art Of Noise . |
| 30 | Some of these sporting ‘ characters ’ play golf and appear with comedians such as Jimmy Tarbuck and Bruce Forsyth or actor Sean Connery for a few holes and a bit of friendly banter . |