Example sentences of "a [noun sg] and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This child was the first human , strung between two worlds — born of a prince and a sky goddess . |
| 2 | After so long of acquiescence , the Welsh felt themselves Welsh again , a nation with a prince and a prophet of their own . |
| 3 | As he put his hand inside there was a squawking and a scrabbling of claws and flapping wings . |
| 4 | Even Stella , McIllvanney 's long-suffering secretary , had taken the day off , leaving the office locked , which meant I had to walk into town to find a public telephone from which I called the Bahamian Police and told them about Hirondelle , and added that I had rescued a chart and a handful of cartridges from the stricken boat . |
| 5 | A project may be interdisciplinary , and require the contributions of an engineer , a scientist , a statistician and a production expert , who would each be appointed to the team from their functional department , whilst still retaining membership and status within their ‘ home ’ department , ie : |
| 6 | ‘ You 're nothing but a brute and a bully ! |
| 7 | In fact , it never occurred to me that it made a difference until I was in a trial and a scout said ‘ We 're quite interested in the coloured lad ’ and that was the first time I realized they thought of me as anything other than my name . |
| 8 | They caved in ; I mean it was only a sister and a niece , and they 'd both been provided for during his lifetime and the niece got a couple of hundred thou in his will . |
| 9 | Yes , I have my husband back there and I have a sister and a brother . |
| 10 | Now I come to think of it , I do n't know much about her family at all — only that she 's got a sister and a mother somewhere in the States . ’ |
| 11 | I was at a jumble sale the other day and managed to buy a bucket and a coat . |
| 12 | An attendant from the tabernacle came along with a bucket and a sponge on a stick . |
| 13 | At Coventry in that year , when the two sitting MPs ( both of whom were " eminent Tackers " ) returned to contest the election , they were greeted by a huge crowd of local supporters , lay and clerical , who marched in a ritualistic procession carrying a maypole and a banner with a picture of a church on both sides . |
| 14 | He had a new studio , a real home was about to swing into life , and , most wonderful of all , he had a studio with a cradle and a baby 's pot in it . |
| 15 | He had known the reality of a home of sorts , with a cradle and a baby in it . |
| 16 | Brenda had heard it all before when she ate her lunch-time sandwiches in the room , halfway between a kitchen and a sitting-room , which was still called the junior Mess . |
| 17 | Bathrooms , a kitchen and a utility room , needing only small windows , were located behind this elevation ( Fig 38 ) . |
| 18 | Downstairs I find a through room , a kitchen and a john . |
| 19 | They also had a bedroom , and a kitchen and a bathroom — all poor little rooms . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Any role has both a function and a status ; it is effectively a combination of the above . |
| 22 | Resource is therefore not the problem with synthetic fuels and the progress or lack of it in the industry is a function and a consequence of the price and availability of hydrocarbons . |
| 23 | On a small boat in a hurricane and a lunatic asks if you read Jane Austen . ’ |
| 24 | In the following year she is reincarnated , but into wood , not flesh and blood : she becomes furniture , a cross between a throne and a commode , her mask-like head and rigid hand fixed to the chair back , her wig suggested by curly iron coat hooks and carved wooden scrolls and flourishes . |
| 25 | This is not a case where the demand was based on an erroneous interpretation of legislation by the revenue ; my provisional view is that there is no distinction between such a case and a case like the present where the demand is based on an invalid regulation and is therefore ultra vires . |
| 26 | Anyone who had both a case and a control diagnosis was excluded from the analysis . |
| 27 | I take it you and Tracy not getting on , are you or not ? no , a bit and a bit not , are you ever getting on ? |
| 28 | He cleaned it up a bit and a scrap yard and it , and this thing and they were like hills and rock gardens , you know like |
| 29 | So if that management committee decides in a year 's time or two year 's time thank you when when we 've been rolling on a bit and a lot of this has died down that they want a single headed project . |
| 30 | He could have quit last Wednesday when the party 's national executive rejected by a 21-3 vote his demands for a referendum and a rethink on the Maastricht treaty . |