Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A runner since the early fifties , Hugh had an 18-month spell of injury in 1988 , and when he started training again his weight had gone from 11 stone to 12st 4lb — ‘ and it felt like 16 stone when I was out running ’ .
2 Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures .
3 And it lasted about three quarters an hour , and it all damped down .
4 I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre .
5 and it seemed like ten minutes , yeah , but like Jim came out and said do you realize you 've been out here for hours man
6 It would have been a public retirement , however — the first printing of the book was 6,000 copies , and it went through eleven impressions in as many years .
7 And it went to seven months because they did have a downturn in the business so it pushed the quantities back a bit .
8 And it took about two minutes to twig what I was going on about !
9 It was in the kitchen and it consisted of three panels side by side .
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