Example sentences of "and [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An 8-horse bet and everyone a winner . |
| 2 | Yes and and then when the lifeboat came , the Eday and and Sanday and them a lot of them came across for the dances , the lifeboat dances , it was really I would say the best time |
| 3 | Dolly , healthily peckish , said , ‘ I do n't know how you can be so good to me , nursin' me ankle , givin' me your bed , and feedin' me as well , and me a girl that 's done pinchin' and nickin' . ’ |
| 4 | Just a penny or two to get my mate Bob and me a drink . ’ |
| 5 | She buy for Pablo and me a house with furniture , and she consent to be godmother to our child . ’ |
| 6 | Mrs Taylor gave Frankie and me a piece of bread pudding each but we did n't like the smell of it so we threw it over the wall on the way back to our house . |
| 7 | ‘ But Mam , you know very well we ca n't do that — Ernest being Jewish , and me a Catholic . ’ |
| 8 | Giving birth in Edinburgh on 19 June 1566 , Mary was at pains to declare loudly to Darnley before a number of witnesses : ‘ God has given you and me a son , begotten by none but you . ’ |
| 9 | Erm and I a work of God 's grace a in us to make us like that . |
| 10 | So I thought that 's two , erm and I a couple of quid did n't I , in the card , then I thought no I wo n't put it in the card I 'll |
| 11 | ‘ The inspector here is to have a suitable flower piece and I a Constable landscape . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It has given my wife and I a lot of comfort . |
| 13 | Well , you can fetch my partner and I a stoop of liquor , angel-face , while I warn him about you . |
| 14 | She sounded really cheesed off about I said how 's your revision going , cos I knew she was doing revision , she went cccckkk I try a maths paper and I ca n't do that , and I a chemistry paper and I ca n't do that and I really . |
| 15 | and I a chair for the |
| 16 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |
| 17 | Eustace Loder , the prime mover of the Stewards ' objection , was said to have a personal grudge against Craganour 's owner Ismay , who in any case was far from universally popular : the son of the founder of the White Star Line , whose greatest ship the Titanic had gone down on its maiden voyage in 1912 with the loss of 1,517 lives , and himself a passenger on that fateful voyage , his survival did not endear him to the public . |
| 18 | Tony Meek says it means the world to be in the race and its a dream come true … he gets his dogs ready by walking them in the forest every morning … they have good food … weetabix … honey and milk for breakfast … cooked meat … raw meat and vegatables for tea … he says his dogs have a good chance of winning they 're second and third favourites and he 's not bothered which one does it … |
| 19 | well they were always against me , well Bill was during the war , what I 'd done to them , finished all the decorating , put shelves up , go on the slate to put his aerial up , he would n't go up , I had to climb out my bedroom window onto the gutter and its a wonder I did n't kill myself then , put his aerial up and |
| 20 | I did n't do a self-evaluation — an evaluation of myself — for the simple reason that we really did n't have time to sit down and think it out , and its a bit difficult doing it objectively … because you have no standard to compare . |
| 21 | The only county on our border without it is Gloucestershire and we 've got one , two , or three areas of our three of our districts , of which two are just poised to get designation , and you 're now beginning to scream and you and your group are beginning to scream about West Oxfordshire and its a situation that you have contributed to . |
| 22 | This option enables you to view the packages which a user has been selected to approve and which a user has submitted for approval . |
| 23 | The road followed a wadi , a dried-up river bed , which was green with palms and which a trick of light sometimes filled with water — such mirages are natural and common in the desert . |
| 24 | But the next best thing is for more money towards fourteen to nineteen education so that 's very welcome at least and was widely supported in the various versions we saw this morning , my concern is with the way in which this money is to got from the centre to the school and I 'd like to speak very strongly in favour of what if I got what you 're is education so that we aim to assist schools to build on their own interests and and not have it parcelled out by some central authority which is and which a sigh of this is an area of great relevance to schools |
| 25 | You talk about if it 's something you 're used to you talk about something and you know what you 're talking of and somebody a bit like actual |
| 26 | ‘ And you a feller ? |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm giving myself a chance to behave like a decent guy , and you a chance to try being a waitress , since for some unfathomable reason it meant enough to you to lie to get the job . |
| 28 | ‘ You are n't afraid are you ? ’ she grinned mischievously , ‘ and you a war hero too . ’ |
| 29 | I was a better investment than my sister , because I passed the eleven-plus , went to grammar school , would get a good job ( university was later seen to offer the same arena of advantages ) , marry a man who would , as she said , buy " me a house , and you a house . |
| 30 | But Jannie was used to friends , particularly childless ones , who were good with the children to the point of dedication , and who a month later called Gawain Damian and Damian Adrian , or who sent the six-year-old Gawain a pull-along elephant for his birthday , and gave Damian a velvet party frock , in the belief that he was called Deborah and was a girl . |