Example sentences of "one [noun sg] and a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They each feature a huge female smile hemmed in and otherwise cropped by a gigantic soda bottle in one instance and a medley of hands and legs in the other . |
| 2 | He arrives in London by train in exactly ’ , Dr Mortimer looked at his watch , ‘ one hour and a quarter . ’ |
| 3 | By the finish of yesterday 's race he was 35 seconds ahead of second placed Gerhard Berger — and had covered the equivalent distance of London to Manchester in a little more than one hour and a half . |
| 4 | You 'll probably be better off just keeping one male and a group of females to prevent the problems of territoriality between rival males , which can sometimes occur with Platies and Swordtails . |
| 5 | Living alone , with no electricity , no water on tap , one cow and a calf , and an income of £280 a year — ‘ if things go well ’ . |
| 6 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |
| 7 | if we book er , any , er , erm , a deal with them through P & O European Ferries , if we book one car and a person on a standard return fare crossing , they 'll give you a free five day return to be used on the same route in the autumn them are the deal with exclusive to the A A so do n't just get across once , cruise across twice |
| 8 | There 's one bedroom and a living room and a kitchen and a bathroom and it 's qu they 're quite sizeable really I mean they 're not |
| 9 | There was an enormous fireplace to one side and a staircase to the first floor wide enough to take a regiment . |
| 10 | Wolfcraft 's Pioneer Workbench combines features from its Hercules and Master models to provide a machining table on one side and a work table on the other . |
| 11 | Climbing quite slowly in total blackness , I eventually reached what I now think of as ‘ the landing ’ ( though it 's quite unlike the landing of my real home , which has a sash window one side and a row of pale blue banisters the other ; this one is barely shoulder width , and blind both sides ) . |
| 12 | Nowadays , the Shatin rice fields have long vanished beneath a new town of skyscrapers and motorways , with a racecourse at one side and a university at the other . |
| 13 | And she also noticed straightaway that the open fire feeding an oven to one side and a water boiler to the other was very like the one Sister Cecilia had introduced her to . |
| 14 | Then when part ‘ B ’ of the pattern is symmetrical about the centre , there is a three-quarter pattern repeat on one side and a quarter on the other ( Fig 8 ) . |
| 15 | This stretch is attractive at first , with Christ Church Meadow on one side and a cricket pitch on the other , but as it approaches the larger river the Cherwell divides into two channels separated by a flat overgrown island , deserted except for a row of college boathouses . |
| 16 | It were a old fashioned kitchen range where you 'd got a an oven on one side and a boiler on the other . |
| 17 | The ground was bounded by a main road on one side and a meadow on the other . |
| 18 | It 's got three doors one side and a book shelf the other side . |
| 19 | Agnes undressed , closed the locker and walked through the swing doors into a tiled hall , with showers on one side and a glass enclosed sauna on the other . |
| 20 | I went to see my doctor and he wrote everything down and listened with his head on one side and a finger in his ear as if he was listening to folk music . |
| 21 | Thirty minutes later I felt better , having worked my way through two platefuls of what the menu called Typical Chinese Dishes on one side and a lot of laundry symbols on the other side . |
| 22 | The men in the gateway moved to one side and a woman came forward . |
| 23 | No tracks on either side of Loch Ness , just the main trunk road north on one side and a tourist road on the other . |
| 24 | It has drawers on one side and a cupboard on the other with a couple of those shelves that pull out for putting your mug of coffee on . |
| 25 | Already they were on Fifth Avenue , with the open expanse of Central Park on one side and a phalanx of elegant apartment blocks on the other . |
| 26 | The roughly cut lawn led right to the stone doorstep and was bordered by a flower garden at one side and a summer house at the other , beyond which was a yard showing some outhouses . |
| 27 | Over the past year he has had eight sheep , one suckle-calf and a ram bitten by adders : the ram died . |
| 28 | Within the Council there were no surprises or novelties about the Committee of Ministers : with each state having one vote and a veto , it became little more than an intergovernmental conference of foreign ministers meeting twice yearly . |
| 29 | Conner has only one boat and a £7 million budget . |
| 30 | You got a label in one cell and a number in another cell , you want to formally join the two together , er , what 's the formula ? |