Example sentences of "and a few [noun] and " in BNC.
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1 | Burnham boat anglers enjoyed good sport with cod and a few dogfish and rays . |
2 | He looked through the xerox sheets that had been pressed between them but there was nothing too controversial there , just a Jenner Clinic catalogue and price schedule and a few dates and details . |
3 | Mrs Jenks had her skittish moments ; particularly after an evening at the music hall , and a few port and lemons . |
4 | Well it was the first hundred houses that were built in the New Town and it housed a lot of building trade workers , a lot of engineers and a lot of archi well a lot , a few architects and a few engineers and the rest were building trade workers or of some sort or another , and a few British Hydro |
5 | Morrissey and Marr borrowed a drummer and a few pounds and worked a night session in a scruffy Manchester 8-track studio . |
6 | Moran stood erect and apart on the platform , totally separate as he gazed at the hill across the tracks where the stationmaster 's brown horse and a few cattle and sheep grazed . |
7 | In the pastures stood sheep , cattle and a few horses and around the farm buildings were geese , fowl and cats . |
8 | Get the knives and forks and some bread and a few plates and take them next door ! 1 ’ |
9 | ‘ I remember in the early days there were only green fields and a few cottages and farmhouses . |
10 | The train was stopped in plenty of time and a few VIP and press party on board were even aware of the drama outside . |
11 | In recently enclosed country we have instead an open regular mesh of by-roads , and a few field-paths and bridle-roads to fill in the larger spaces between the villages . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | There were some bruised shins and sprained ankles , black eyes and a few cuts and grazes but nothing you would n't get on a rugby field , although a couple of old ladies were taken off home by ambulance with attacks of the vapours . |
14 | ‘ They 've taken him to Queen Elizabeth Hospital with a suspected broken leg and a few cuts and bruises . |
15 | So I boiled them in pan for the dog and I put some taters in and a few peas and carrots sort of thing and some Oxos and made him a r a right good dinner . |
16 | The resident fish consist of brown trout , char , eels and a few pike and stickleback . |
17 | At a birthday party yesterday — on Kensington Woof Gardens — he and a few brothers and sisters handed £200,000 to Guide Dogs for the Blind for a new training centre in Southampton . |
18 | Apart from the Lloyd George Liberals , and a few socialists and Oswald Mosley , there were no significant supporters of more expansionary policies . |
19 | She looked again for Pete , but Pete was no longer there ; and now she could hear a scattering of spontaneous applause — applause ! — and a few cheers and whistles which told her that the host had finally arrived on the scene . |