Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't find the entrance to the restaurant that night for a start , and I spent the first half hour of the evening circling the outside of the building looking for a way in — in full view of all the diners . |
| 2 | Martyn and I spent the next 10 days camping on the largest of the islands , sharing it with 30 pairs of geese . |
| 3 | This advice I took seriously ; and Myra and I spent the next ten years mostly in Britain . |
| 4 | At this time I was on holiday and I spent the next three days redecorating my sitting room ( a boring task , but necessary ) while waiting for the G4 to harden . |
| 5 | ‘ One paper asked me to pick the Derby winner and I picked the first four . |
| 6 | And I paid the first fine that I ever did . |
| 7 | ‘ No diet is easy and I found the first few days hard , but by the end of the first week my skin became clearer , my nails grew stronger and my hair was healthy and shining . |
| 8 | Legge asked you to record the Fifth Symphony in 1951 and you recorded the last four symphonies between then and the summer of 1955 . |
| 9 | He raised the bone knife to the wooden lips and she felt the first gentle cut . |
| 10 | This time his kiss was a little more forceful , it lasted longer , and she felt the first light outbreak of heat on his skin . |
| 11 | In 1991 , she won more matches on clay than any other player , ( 24 ) , and she had the fourth best win/loss record of all players on that surface , ( 24/3 ) , with a percentage success rate of .904 , although it should be noted that , in 7 attempts to date , she has been unable to overcome the dominant hitting of Seles . |
| 12 | Anne Dickie , Manager Royline Sales , said regional awards had been introduced so that the efforts and results of branches could be better highlighted and rewarded — and she praised the first three winners . |
| 13 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 14 | Three days later Mrs Holt arrived in town , and they spent the next three days together before she left . |
| 15 | ‘ He would , ’ Miss Hatherby chuckled , and they spent the next half hour discussing him . |
| 16 | When they had described all that they could the film was started again and they watched the next five second section , and so on until an entire film had been described . |
| 17 | His new wife was a Parisian and he spent the last eight years of his life in Paris , where he continued to practise until he died in 1843 at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 18 | Only Sussex , not yet exposed to his political style , offered a refuge and he spent the next five years there , converting the natives and negotiating his return . |
| 19 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 20 | But , in his favour , Haig strongly advocated Foch 's appointment as generalissimo in 1918 , and he handled the last British actions of the war with resolution and thoroughness . |