Example sentences of "and [noun sg] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we 've got a good long a session and hour and a quarter and tea afterwards . |
| 2 | ‘ Señor Gracias , Buenas noches , ’ said the owner as he took Luke 's order for a vodka and tonic and a Bourbon . |
| 3 | I thought a cup of sweet English tea or warm camels ' milk and clove and a sleep , and certainly not to take the wheel of one of the cars on their way to Al Ain . |
| 4 | His ecumenical spirit was such that when two Spanish vessels visited Sydney in 1793 he ‘ outdid himself in his sociable gestures , particularly toward our chaplain fathers approaching them with a kindness and humility and a simplicity that was truly evangelical ’ ( The Spanish at Port Jackson , Australian Documentary Facsimile Society , 1967 ) . |
| 5 | The Zikr must have been devout too , of course , but he got round a lot more than Zoser , mixed with people , liked crowd and noise and a bit of fun . |
| 6 | ( 1988 ) contrast the political projection of the inner city as a place of hopelessness and blight and a residuum of crime and disorder with ‘ The Action for Cities ’ connoted vision of British values embodied in policy prescriptions extolling stability , partnership and self-help . |
| 7 | He had golden-brown hair and beard and a voice high in pitch but rich in timbre . |
| 8 | She was free to stay in Rome , not at the palazzo — she could never do that , never let Nicolo provide her with room and board and a salary , and yet take her into his bed each night . |
| 9 | No violence , no rapid motion , just feeling and tenderness and a pressure that was beyond sex , somewhere on another plane . |
| 10 | Roger Hymas is a lecturer and writer and a Director of Cadogan Management Ltd , a business development adviser to corporations and institutions . |
| 11 | I paid the woman next door a quid to look after Lee and Max , bought a roller and tray and a paste brush — another quid — borrowed a paste board , and at 8 a.m. skipped off to my first commission . |
| 12 | At Imperial College 's field station at Silwood Park , Mick Crawley is setting up a series of such experiments as part of Prosamo , a research programme funded by the Agricultural and Food Research Council , the Department of Trade and Industry and a consortium of companies . |
| 13 | Robert Roberts recalls that the Scuttler 's girl friend also had her own style of dress — ‘ clogs and shawl and a skirt with vertical stripes ’ — although I know of no other references to female attire , and as usual within these hooligan preoccupations attention was rootedly fixed on the boys . |
| 14 | By permission of the Queen and with the consent of the Cauldon Potteries Ltd. , Sir George Hayter Chubb had painted metal replicas of the house made , with a lock and key and a slit in the roof to be used as children 's money boxes . |
| 15 | Put in a fireproof dish eight carrots cut in round pieces , about half an inch thick , half a dozen small onions , parsley , salt and pepper and a rasher of bacon cut in small pieces , add a tablespoon of water , cover the dish and cook on a slow fire for about three and a half hours . |
| 16 | Half an hour later the sister had her organized at a table in the day room , with writing paper and pen and a cup of sugary tea . |
| 17 | They will then notify their clients by sending them contract notes — a ‘ bought ’ note in the case of a purchase and a ‘ sold ’ note in the case of a sale — accompanied , in the case of a purchase , by a request for payment prior to the next settlement date ( unless they are already holding their client 's funds ) or , in the case of a sale , by a transfer form for signature and return and a request for the share certificate ( unless they already hold it ) . |
| 18 | She had just finished her breakfast of dripping and bread and a piece of cold bacon when Ben came into the room . |
| 19 | The general apologized for the dearth of corned beef sandwiches , but was able to produce a mutton broth , lamb , potatoes and cabbage and a bottle of Hock to go with it . |
| 20 | One archer had really gone back to basics ; he had started making his own bows by means of trial and error and a book from the library . |
| 21 | This study arises from previous work in the Urban and Regional Studies Unit on regional unemployment and migration and a study of household movement in the London region . |
| 22 | The flow chart is not supposed to be rigid or to be adhered to at all costs ; more a source of guidance and reference and a way of keeping check on the different activities that go on simultaneously as you move towards that special day . |
| 23 | In particular West Ham and Poplar and a handful of other Boards with active Labour members went as far as their resources permitted in providing out-door relief and improved workhouse conditions even for the unemployed , even though they faced considerable opposition from the LGB . |
| 24 | We can guess that both the lords and the village community found a uniform system , in which all the tenants had land of their own , and all worked to till the lord 's domain , had its advantages ; in particular , that the lords preferred the service of serfs , whose lives they did not have to organize in detail , to that of slaves , who were dependent on them for food and clothing and a roof over their heads . |
| 25 | They may wake from sleep with great fear , agitation and anxiety and a sense of suffocation like in Lachesis . |
| 26 | Bedrooms all have TV and telephone and a minibar is available at a supplement of 2,000 Lire per night , payable locally . |
| 27 | and amp and a set of speakers it 's about three hundred and odd quid and it 's er Samsung and it 's supposed to be one |
| 28 | Obviously there are no simple solutions to a difficult relationship with a demanding parent , but it can often be kept ticking over on a mixture of kindness and firmness and a refusal on your part to come out of your corner for a fight every time she chooses to ring the bell . |
| 29 | In the Forest of Dean they also took housebote and haybote and a tree trunk at Christmas , under the supervision of the verderers and other Forest officers : they employed men to make some of this wood into charcoal and to operate travelling forges for the smelting of iron , and were answerable to the Crown when these workmen took wood in the forest to which they were not entitled . |
| 30 | At the end nearest the tube station was a block of shops containing a small supermarket run by Pakistanis , a Greek restaurant run by Cypriots , a triple-fronted emporium given over to the sale of motor-cycle spare parts and equipment and a paper shop run by people who when asked where they came from ingenuously replied that they were Cape Coloureds . |