Example sentences of "an [adj] man [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now Mick and Paddy had arrived and we took turns , along with an old man and a little girl , to scoop out basins of water . |
| 2 | an old man and a boy who exchanged no words |
| 3 | All that was found in the tomb chamber when it was excavated was the apparently hasty , late burial in a pit under the floor of an old man and a child . |
| 4 | Burghley told him that Elizabeth still considered him ‘ both an honest man and a good subject ’ but said that he should not raise such matters in the House . |
| 5 | The cripple , for example , who had flung Allen into the stream , was he an honest man or a rascal ? |
| 6 | Christian spoke of Nahum as belonging to the new generation of his people , an educated man and a future spokesman for them . |
| 7 | A household consisting of a seventy-year-old man , his sixty-three-year-old wife and a thirteen-year-old grandson was described as poor , as was that of Thomas Stumey , " an ancient man and a cripple " . |