Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Zealand has another Irish pub — and it sold over 50 kegs of Guinness in its first three weeks , well ahead of any other beer it stocks . |
| 2 | Such was its popularity that two reprints were ready in May and June of the same year ; Faber and Faber published the poem as a pamphlet in September , and it sold almost 12,000 copies . |
| 3 | Well , half fiveish normally , cos because you had to make your own round up , mark the papers and then , say , six o'clock and it lasted possibly three hours , you just in time for you to get to school for probably ten past nine . |
| 4 | At an election rally in the Wembley Conference Centre in 1983 , I stood on a nail in my training shoes and it went nearly four centimetres into my foot . |
| 5 | It was an explosive cocktail and it took just one spark to bring on her illness . |
| 6 | A hay rake full of wet , rotting leaves can be very heavy , and it took around twenty heavings as a rule to clear enough to stop the pipe gasping for breath — or , rather , water . |
| 7 | The hotel had its own high-class shopping area , and it took only one telephone call to arrange for an assortment of clothes to be sent up . |
| 8 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |
| 9 | It was called the Wyrmberg and it rose almost one half of a mile above the green valley ; a mountain huge , grey and upside down . |
| 10 | And it happened just two streets away from The Bar . |
| 11 | The PS share of the vote fell from 34.76 to 17.59 per cent in the first round of voting and it won only 54 seats ( 252 in the outgoing National Assembly ) . |