Example sentences of "and a [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the edge of the carpet are a filing cabinet and a hatstand and two upright chairs . |
| 2 | Before then it was served with a ford , and a ferry when the tide was high . |
| 3 | Oswald 's marriage to Cyneburh , daughter of Cynegils , reveals clearly that relatively cordial relations could prevail between an overlord and a dependant if both stood to gain from the relationship . |
| 4 | It is constructed of plasterwork with inlaid wood and a window and a door , which have been introduced to form the background . |
| 5 | The public transport network should also be improved to encourage people to use this instead of a car and a park and ride system might be introduced to keep traffic out of the centre . |
| 6 | The full-length skirt of her modest navy blue suit brushed the ground and a veil and matching , narrow-brimmed hat of the same colour partly hid her face . |
| 7 | And a trowel and he was trowelling away . |
| 8 | He holed big birdie putts on the 15th and 16th , made par at the tricky short 17th , and then eagled the water strewn 18th with a three iron to 25 feet , and a putt that raced into the centre of the hole . |
| 9 | No water sold at the bar , scratchy loo paper , and a dancefloor that does n't yet kick till after midnight . |
| 10 | When she placed the paper cone by the side of the three bags she was confronted by a pair of unsmiling eyes and a voice that held condemnation : ‘ Ye 've nivvor weighed it . ’ |
| 11 | It opened with a black screen and a voice that said , ‘ This is probably the most frightening place in the world . ’ |
| 12 | PASSIONATE songs and groovy diversions and a voice that cracks and soars and makes you aware of the rich possibilities of your lot , instead of burying your feelings in a horrible , orthodox genre . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're in a Secondary Darkfall ? ’ said Frye in sudden realisation , and a voice that wavered . |
| 14 | But then her movement was arrested by the sound of a door opening and closing on the far side of the room , and a voice that she recognised only too well . |
| 15 | Likewise seeing involves a seer and a person or thing seen . |
| 16 | In that short interval we managed to grab a couple of milk crates and a door that we found at the edge of a building site . |
| 17 | It was a big room with a polished oak table and a door that opened to the garden . |
| 18 | Still well I mean I know the majority of it 's wood and there 's three large windows in it , and a door and erm the roof is this erm stuff it 's just like er plastic moulding but it 's double glazed bloody oven in there ! |
| 19 | I arranged to come over here to do the research and a name that came up again and again was Munro — Brigadier Dougal Munro . |
| 20 | had a law and a name and a theory . |
| 21 | The process of evaluating and matching symptom pictures as a whole , which takes place in this more intuitive process , might be compared to the difference between a mathematician and a child when presented with a simple sum such as 4 + 3 . |
| 22 | Nevertheless he points out that in Britain we appear to have industrial malaise , adversary politics and a society that is different in quality compared to other developed European countries . |
| 23 | He 's in a sense living there is in indictment of an attitude and the love and the care that the church and a society that proclaims to be civilized has for itself , and I think we 'll have to leave it there . |
| 24 | Think you ended up with a cough and a cold and she 's gon na catch it , I caught it off you . |
| 25 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 26 | Then they built a sand-castle with ramparts and a moat and turrets , and stopped off at a café on their way home and treated themselves to a delicious cream tea . |
| 27 | There are similarities between a stained glass window and a poster and Mucha was a master of both . |
| 28 | Here he built up a trade in seeds , corn , manure , and fertilizer , and started a malt kiln in Driffield and a brewery and kilns in Malton . |
| 29 | The upgrades include a compiler , Cobol 3.0 for Unix , operating system extensions providing common features across platforms and a character or graphical user interface builder . |
| 30 | The heaving Hunslet certainly proved to be a nostalgic sight at the colliery , former home of Whiston 's sister loco Robert , and a base where steam-power reigned until 1978 — with a back-up steam loco surviving there until just six years ago . |