Example sentences of "and [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To start off Changez 's career in the grocery business , Anwar instructed him to work on the till , where you could get by with only one arm and half a brain . |
| 32 | A customer comes in and half a crown is placed on the counter for cigarettes . |
| 33 | His eldest surviving son , Coleridge 's father , was born in 1719 and attended the Grammar School at Crediton ; but when bankruptcy brought the family low , the younger John , not quite sixteen years of age , ‘ walked off to seek his fortune ’ , taking with him no more than his father 's blessing and half a crown . |
| 34 | So I started as an errand boy and half a crown a week was my bus fare , which give me , entitled me two journeys , a return journey each day . |
| 35 | and half a crown |
| 36 | Ashore , Alan hunted round the hull , searching for the stuck fly , getting both arms and half a leg wet whilst doing so . |
| 37 | On February 10th , five men , three sledges , eighteen dogs , and half a tonne of food left Framheim and went south . |
| 38 | The elderly voice , half a challenge and half a tease , came down the telephone to Molly as she was in the middle of giving Jacqueline her supper . |
| 39 | Magnús had Norway then , remember , and half a foot in Orkney already through Thorfinn 's nephew Rognvald . |
| 40 | The proprietor , a young man , even skinnier and shorter than I , with bulging eyes and half a gold tooth , was standing in the doorway wearing an oversized European suit . |
| 41 | Yeah and half a portion of chips . |
| 42 | But it was about i there were three things on the day , so it should be an hour and half a couple of hours . |
| 43 | Insulted by Commander Moelchert 's offer of a side of bacon and half a sack of hardtack , the warriors looted the station for flour , sugar , coffee , pots and pans . |
| 44 | The site chosen for the house was in a wooded grove , sheltered from northerly gales and half a mile from the sea . |
| 45 | One is a no-through motor road , the other an ancient cart track ; they diverge immediately and then proceed north roughly parallel and half a mile apart . |
| 46 | A single operation might be three miles long and half a mile wide and would crawl across the landscape at about 700 feet a year , digging up the shale or sand and beginning the processing which will turn it to oil . |
| 47 | The hydraulics gave out their whine as he joined other crew members staring down at the scene below and half a mile back . |
| 48 | History now relates how that race proved one too many for Dessie and half a mile too far for Remittance Man , but to The Fellow fell the spoils of victory and the crown of Europe 's champion chaser . |
| 49 | These apartments are 350 yards from the beach and half a mile from Villasimius with its shops and trattorie . |
| 50 | It was a stunning sight , and as I lay idly in the boulders that are reputed to have fallen 1600 metres and half a mile from the South Face of La Meije to the Chatelleret , I thought of the climb to come and let the daylight drift over me . |
| 51 | Dafalla woke to find the railway station yard covered with water , and half a mile of track submerged . |
| 52 | They passed the Monument to the Soviet Soldier , significantly sited at Piaţa Victoriei , and half a mile later turned left into Strada Cosmonautilor . |
| 53 | I opened the lockers to pull out the kit but found that the top had come off a water container and half a gallon had spilt , soaking the tea bags and bursting the envelope which carried my documents . |
| 54 | In Dorchester Gaol criminal prisoners were allowed a peck of coal for their common room every day during the six winter months , and half a peck in summer . |
| 55 | When I got back to the block there it was sitting on the table beside the empty bowls waiting for soup : an extra biscuit each , spread with liver paste , and half a quarter pound slab of chocolate . |
| 56 | These sheds were low , single spans of reinforced concrete , covering two lines of track and half a platform on each side . |
| 57 | A day trip to buy 1½in ash , and half a day in a neighbour 's workshop machining left me with a large number of very small sections , and another project underway . |
| 58 | She had tomatoes and half a head of expensive out-of-season lettuce . |
| 59 | Thirteen and a half seconds after ignition , the booster motor falls away , and half a second later the jet engine starts propelling the missile for the rest of its flight . |
| 60 | The Americans are world champions and half a second faster than the British best — but I can redress that balance just by telling Christie he has only a dog 's chance . |