Example sentences of "and a [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I began to notice that the pictures on the walls were all prints of cavalry regiments , and a hatstand in a corner was n't really a hatstand but another empty shell case with a clutch of regimental flags standing in it . |
| 2 | It is most apparent in people like the councillor from Middlesbrough , a big , feisty woman with close-cropped red hair and a voice like a Teeside fishwife . |
| 3 | He looked around at a sudden grinding noise , and a voice like a carving knife cutting through silk said , ‘ This is very undignified . ’ |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Gloria had gone in and a person at a window had waved once but Dot had n't known if it was him . |
| 6 | Ordinary soil , reasonably moist and fertile , with an alkaline tendency , will be suitable , and a position against a north or west wall is ideal , or on the shady side of supports such as tree stumps , poles and pergolas . |
| 7 | Of course Lake Titicaca is renowned for more than impressive statistics and a name like a birdcall . |
| 8 | We examined these carefully , especially the deep bowls ornately carved with the appropriate scene : a large dove for Pentecost , the Virgin Mary on the Advent cup , and a child in a manger for Christmas . |
| 9 | Immortality holds little appeal if it is accompanied by increased ill health , inadequate attention to those needs by the health service , and a society with a diminishing regard for older people — which almost half the surveyed group believed . |
| 10 | Iris has a raw style that ancestral artists The Carter Family would recognise instantly , and a facility for a great story song that never makes you feel insulted or nauseous . |
| 11 | A pat on the nose for a four-legged competitor ( middle ) and a blanket for a two-legged one ( bottom ) |
| 12 | Where the difficulty is one of applying the provision rather than a conceptual uncertainty the court will not hold it to be void ( Brown v Gould ) ; and a provision in a lease will not be uncertain if it can be made certain . |
| 13 | In making a payment of interest to the lender and a contribution to a life assurance company , the debt remains constant and the borrower is offered the prospect of a maturing policy that will not only repay the mortgage but also provide a lump sum . |
| 14 | One of the reasons why it is harder to run classes in Ipswich is not so much the diversity of entertainment provided but the overlapping of cultural activity , The WEA offers a broad cultural front , and a Branch in a village is the fount of all learning , but in a large town the musicians … artists and dramatists … historians and archaeologists have respective organisations catering for their taste , even the natural scientists do … |
| 15 | However , he was not selected and a request for a box-off against Matthew Turner , the Welsh ABA 's choice , was rejected . |
| 16 | He had several phone calls from Japan to deal with , and a request from a Bombay-based Hindu businessman that he fly out in the next few weeks to — as Mr Kapoor put it — ‘ spring clean ’ his collection of modern primitives . |
| 17 | After Eton and a spell as a waiter in the United States , he fell in with the exotic Soho underworld of the day and found himself earning £500 a week , very good money in 1961 . |
| 18 | McLeish found himself on the verge of suggesting that a thoroughly unpleasant time in a New York jail might succeed in curing Tristram where all other methods , including exhortation , loving family support and a spell in a comfortable private hospital in Devon , had failed . |
| 19 | Scotland 's Jimmy McRae was an unlucky 13th after surviving transmission problems and a brush with a bridge in his Ford . |
| 20 | Shikampur kept his advantage as Richards roused his mount to full steam , and a quarter of a mile out Pinza swept past and went into a decisive lead . |
| 21 | As the clubhouse and first link will be within a mile of the radio station and a quarter of a mile from the borough boundary , the project ought to do good to Henley and , incidentally , raise the value of the land surrounding the course . |
| 22 | MORE than £1.5million in fake £50 notes and a quarter of a million forged $100 bills and Danish kroner along with illegal printing plates and piles of false documents in another search . |
| 23 | Police estimated that two million people and a quarter of a million cars flooded into Liverpool and the Wirral , and 42 miles of no waiting cones lined the roads . |
| 24 | These were held on the road outside the inn and the distances were : one mile , a half and a quarter of a mile . |
| 25 | Within the space of only eight years , although desperately ill and while painting and illustrating as well , he completed some sixty short stories , all later published posthumously , three novels , and a quarter of a million words of journals . |
| 26 | To wash it down , fifteen thousand bottles of champagne , twenty five thousand bottles of wine , and a quarter of a million pints of beer . |
| 27 | They have one room and a kitchen in a large house , and share bathroom facilities . |
| 28 | It adds up to quite an incentive for the ‘ King of the Park ’ Kenny McKinstry who will be bidding for an unprecedented sixth victory this year , and a second in a row in his Kaliber Subaru Legacy . |
| 29 | One or two of the Sergeants had the red and white stripes of the ‘ Valeur Militaire ’ , awarded for bravery in action , and a Lieutenant with a bald head and tattooed hands had the ‘ Légion d'Honneur . ’ |
| 30 | All rooms are very comfortably furnished , have private televisions and a balcony with a side view of the bay of Acapulco . |