Example sentences of "and [noun] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubtless the prospect of carrying eighteen stone of solid muscle and jaw up a moving escalator was something of a disincentive . |
| 2 | In Carlyle Mansions itself , Hayward 's own rooms were at the front of the building and looked over the river and the gardens while Eliot satisfied himself with a study and bedroom down a dark passage at the back of the building . |
| 3 | Then you take that and taper down a bit and then it 's gon na split again |
| 4 | If the transaction is in order , the display on the terminal writes oui ’ , and prints out a receipt . |
| 5 | During the active growing season , prepare the rooting area as if for a seedbed and scope out a gentle dip in which the branch will lie comfortably . |
| 6 | The vacuum cleaner , sensing her lack of concentration , took advantage of it to munch and slaver up a long strand of rug fringe : there was a smell of burning rubber . |
| 7 | In answer to Unix Labs 's recently filed a petition for reconsideration , Judge Dickenson Debevoise has refused to reverse himself and hand down a preliminary injunction preventing Berkeley Software from distributing its BSD/386 code . |
| 8 | The old way to teach about an aspect of diet , say party-eating at Christmas , would be to discuss it and hand out a leaflet . |
| 9 | and hand out a business car |
| 10 | Buy a bottle of whisky and order up a haggis . |
| 11 | ONE SUMMER in 1920 , while staying with the Morells at Garsington , the late Percy Feilding went for a drive around Oxfordshire , and miles up a cart track , purely by chance , he found Beckley . |