Example sentences of "a boy [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dustin was neither a boy nor a beatnik , nor was he mobbed . |
| 2 | He had given up his three stripes to join the Commandos and was now the father of two children , a boy and a girl , his wife living with her parents in Perth . |
| 3 | In a family of four , with a boy and a girl , there will be four different surnames . |
| 4 | Mrs Daniel , whose school has 1,000 boys and girls , added : ‘ If parents see a boy and a girl even holding hands in the park , they are in next day , to ask what we are doing about it . ’ |
| 5 | Of their four children , a boy and a girl died as infants and two daughters , Sarah and Elizabeth , became the wives of George Stanley and Lord Cadogan respectively , both husbands proving dutiful correspondents with their father-in-law on matters of health and horticulture . |
| 6 | She had taken the Shills ' two older children , a boy and a girl aged six and four , for a Christmas treat , along with her two grandchildren , had then gone shopping to enjoy the festive lights of Windsor . |
| 7 | His wife , a short , stocky woman , was accompanying two evacuees , a boy and a girl . |
| 8 | Twins , you see , a boy and a girl . ’ |
| 9 | They 're nice kids , a boy and a girl . |
| 10 | Each year the Lord Lieutenant selects a boy and a girl cadet from each of the county 's three cadet forces . |
| 11 | He was very different from the sort of person who gets a job and then a better job and promotion and a wife ; two children , a boy and a girl , a house , a better house , a car and all the rest of it . |
| 12 | Not a boy and a girl , I 'm afraid . |
| 13 | You have two wives to keep , the one you are living with here , who is really your mistress , and I believe rather expensive , particularly as she already has a daughter , and your wife proper who will not divorce you and is living in the Argentine with your two children , a boy and a girl . |
| 14 | I 'm living with my sister ; she 's got a boy and a girl but it 's not the same . ’ |
| 15 | So I had two now , a boy and a girl . |
| 16 | The place was almost empty except for an old man in one corner and a boy and a girl eating chicken and chips two booths away . |
| 17 | Debbie who 's blond , thirty eight years old , has two children a boy and a girl , works with the deaf in Derby . |
| 18 | ‘ She had twins , a boy and a girl . |
| 19 | Twins , a boy and a girl . |
| 20 | ‘ A boy and a girl in a little canoe , ’ Mandy sang happily . |
| 21 | It 's different with a boy and a girl cos |
| 22 | He probably would of liked a boy , it would of mean quite nice to have a boy and a girl , girl or a boy , one of each it would of been more expensive , could n't pass the clothes down . |
| 23 | There was two dolls , a boy and a girl doll and the boy was actually like a boy . |
| 24 | And a boy and a girl . |
| 25 | ‘ Government ’ , Denys Finch Hatton wrote to his friend Kermit Roosevelt , ' … panicked and sent for Delamere who seems to have gone down there with a boy and a cook and settled the whole thing . ’ |
| 26 | We must have looked a comical sight in those days : a boy and a bird ‘ dancing ’ up the road — two steps , stop , turn , two steps , turn , stop … |
| 27 | And there was a boy and a dog . |
| 28 | She was woken by a boy and a dog practically falling over her , and rolled to her feet in an instant , pulling her knife from its hidden sheath , knocking the small skinny body to the floor and kneeling over it , her knife to its throat — |
| 29 | The story of an extraordinary friendship between a boy and a seal . |
| 30 | The same ceremony is held for the birth of a boy or a girl . |