Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was badly shocked and in great pain but managed to steer himself towards a field half a mile from the parachute club at Brunton , Northumberland . |
| 2 | THIS bronze handle ( fig. 6.1 ) was picked up in April 1967 by Mr J. A. Hadman from the surface of a field half a mile to the north-east of Oundle , Northants. , on the east side of the River Nene ( Nat . |
| 3 | ‘ Not a command -just a plea , darling . |
| 4 | It 's only about a pound eighty a week or something for him . |
| 5 | When has or will a person such a person as Miss Havisham exist ? |
| 6 | If the marginal tax rate on taxable income is constant , individuals face a schedule such a OBC . |
| 7 | You can only get to Rudolfo 's by the road we took the other day when they found the car- or else on foot there 's a bit of a patch half a kilometre on from here — and in any case Rudolfo wo n't be down until tomorrow , being Palm Sunday . |
| 8 | about four a week four a day Mm |
| 9 | Carole said that she always brought everything including the kitchen sink because she 'd stayed in the past in basecamps where there had n't even been enough mattresses to go round ; one in South Wales had been a wooden hut with gas lights and a fridge half a mile away . |
| 10 | That was a timber prop and a timber half a prop for a bar to carry the roof . |
| 11 | It is difficult to believe that she was not embalmed and Elizabeth Southwell , a minor courtier , relates how Lord Cecil ordered it to be done and Clapham , in his Elizabeth of England , states that ‘ The Queen 's body was left in a manner alone a day or two after her death and meane persons [ embalmers ] had access to it . ’ |
| 12 | Now it 's been found in a river half a mile from her home . |
| 13 | The idea of a book each a year from the three editors seemed to calm him and I am sure he realizes that this involves more than reading the one script . |
| 14 | I taught for a term at a crammer half a mile from my home , and instead of passing lazy days with charming children whose actively hatted mothers would smile , condescend and yet flirt during some endless pollen-spattered sports day , I spent my time with the son of the local bookmaker ( he lent me his bike : I crashed it ) and the daughter of the suburb 's solicitor . |
| 15 | VLADIMIR Ashkenazy , one of the world 's greatest pianists , said yesterday he felt far more at home in the Soviet Union now than when he departed under a cloud half a lifetime ago . |
| 16 | The Chief Rabbit 's lettuce was stolen by the Owsla from a garden half a mile away across the fields . |
| 17 | If asked to recall a date such a person will proceed by inference rather than by a direct introspective search , e.g. ‘ it can not be next week but it must be within the next month ’ or ‘ this kind of event is always on a Tuesday ’ and so on . |
| 18 | ‘ when I considered how striking a display such a life affords of the nature of true religion — of the power of divine grace — of the mysterious but all-wise course of Divine Providence — and of the encouragement afforded for our dependance upon that Providence in the most trying circumstances … ‘ |
| 19 | A walk through the arboretum soon turned thoughts to life as a lumberjill half a century ago . |
| 20 | ‘ I wanted to express what a simple thing death and burial is , just as simple as the falling of a leaf -just a bit of earth dug up — a wooden cross … . |
| 21 | Cling to them , and their love for you , for the Place of the Succulent Rock is about to shake and tremble , and in such a time all a soul has is the company of its loving like . |
| 22 | Sex blazed in the night like a beacon guiding a traveller to a city of delight . |