Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 2 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 3 | And I looked , I wrote the first one , first class answer and I thought , this is a doddle , and I 'd done three days then or two nights without kip , and I sort of and erm suddenly I f and I went Smith nineteen forty ? |
| 4 | I was carrying wall units and I 'd taken fourteen wall units one after another up two flights of stairs . |
| 5 | And so I said , saying to my wife , Well , I said er , I 've got , I 'm going to get involved in bus fares to and from office , and I 'd got two kids at that time and I said er , I do n't know when Anne said , Well no good , cos she was a good socialist and all , and says , Right , no good letting money stand in the road as it will get by . |
| 6 | Yeah , I worked with a voluntary group for a while and I remember helping one lady go through , she was raped , and go through the courts , and all her past life was brought up , I mean I was so upset for her and yet the fact that he had actually raped twice before was n't brought up , but her past life was brought up and the man actually got off in the end because she just could not cope with being on the stand and dealing with it all and it was just so terrible that , that , that the , the ina , |
| 7 | And I remember saying one time to our doctor |
| 8 | ‘ I come originally from Forfar and I got jumped one night there by a lot of casuals . |
| 9 | Yes I 've phoned and I 've written three times and I 've written to his mother our official letter , official no headed notepaper she 's not there , she works as a nurse does n't she ? |
| 10 | Well I know in one terrace alone in Street , Street used to have three big bonfires in this two hundred yards and I 've known one terrace , Terrace to have as many as twenty mattresses you know piled on the street ready for , and the big lad the bigger lads used to , to get the props get somebody 's prop and stoke the fire up and put the mattresses on . |
| 11 | and I 've had three accidents and I 've been stationery every time , so somebody 's done something to me , so I 've had three |
| 12 | Yet when I tumble out and start pulling my clothes on again , my spirits rise like it 's a sunny morning and I 've had ten hours sleep . |
| 13 | ‘ These greens are very difficult , ’ he said , ‘ and I 've had seven three-putts over the two rounds . |
| 14 | I 'm well educated and I 've got two children and I can manage pretty well , there 's a number of much more essential things that I know how to do , but I ca n't do those ones , and when they come up I feel like weeping myself sick . " |
| 15 | same , the same as that , cos the idea was get two the same and I 've got one contract , ha |
| 16 | yes , I 'm living at home but I 'm also married and I 've been married three times before , and I 've got six children now . |
| 17 | and I 've got three phone numbers to ring but I thought I 'd wait till the end of the week until I 'm about eleven and a half |
| 18 | I was gon na bring some back and I thought no I wo n't cos I 'll only end up eating it all this week and I 've got three weeks left to get really in shape for Christmas , you know , before I slob out and eat |
| 19 | I went to the doctor , but he just sent a letter to the Detox Unit and I had to wait three months [ for the appointment ] . |
| 20 | At that time I was turning it out with some facility , and I had had two poems published in The Isis in my first year . |
| 21 | Stephanie and I had married eight years ago , only four weeks after meeting in Los Angeles for the first time . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been to that riding-stable — Angela 's sister Jennifer and I went hacking one day when I stayed the weekend there . |
| 23 | But erm I felt as though , I felt exactly the same , I felt I 'd just been asleep I just had my eyes shut and I felt opening one eye to have a look out and see what people were doing . |
| 24 | Okay this is the fourth in our series and the second on the presidency and I want to do two things in this lecture . |
| 25 | try it again and I want to do two things for the rest of the morning . |
| 26 | And I seem to remember one house |
| 27 | And now that it is 8.58 pm and I have done fifty-eight minutes of work , which I deem to be more than enough for one night I am signing off , because , I 'm lazy . |
| 28 | and I have to record ten tapes by Monday which I have to get up at ten thirty in the morning when I 've got no school and take it back up to the school . |
| 29 | And I have to record ten tapes . |
| 30 | I was there , after all , and I have had twenty years to think about it . |