Example sentences of "and [prep] [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for eight hours she devoted herself to sufferers and staff — smiling , chatting and listening . |
| 2 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 3 | The child was allowed into the bedroom and for two hours she watched her father die . |
| 4 | She pressed her forehead against the cool glass and for two minutes she did not move . |
| 5 | So for a minute you have obviously got a hundred and eighty words and for two minutes it 's double that amount . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , and for two pins you 'd ask him to tea ! |
| 7 | This was her half-brother , and for two pins she would have hugged him . |
| 8 | There was no road to it , or track , merely a worn path , two fields ' distance from the farm ; but to us , big city born and bred , it was magical , the stuff of which dreams are made , and for two weeks we lived a life of unadulterated bliss . |
| 9 | She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother . |
| 10 | Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet . |
| 11 | There 's a very good example of that some years ago er in one of these groups I had erm a student had a severe stutter problem and he said that he had hypnosis and for two years he was fine , he had no stutter and suddenly one day under stress it came back an and ever since erm then he was having some other kind of treatment I think , but er but that 's typical . |
| 12 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 13 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 14 | She has always relied on instinct , and for 55 years it has served her well . |
| 15 | ‘ Friends , enemies , Englishmen , ’ I began , ‘ hear now the claims of Scotland ! ’ , and for four minutes I spelled out what I thought they were . |
| 16 | And for five minutes I quizzed this wretched bird without getting a single chirp out of it . |
| 17 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 18 | Well she does and the hardest part , I think there is when she comes down in the morning and for five years he was there |
| 19 | Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains . |
| 20 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 21 | The light from the top of the lighthouse flashed out over the water , and for thirty seconds she could see very well . |
| 22 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |
| 23 | Now take these twigs of basil , put them into a sack , and for seven nights you must sleep lying between the trenches of the vineyard , with your head pillowed on the sack . " |
| 24 | The Prince of Wales has an obvious love of the countryside and for 20 years he has somehow found some private time to express this through the medium of watercolour painting . |
| 25 | This is one that 's been , I 've had appointment and for three times I 'd had to cancel it . |
| 26 | And for three decades we 've given our clients a process for better decision making and problem solving up and down the organization . |
| 27 | They chose a spot by a river , on the side of a mountain , they called three hundred workmen together , and for three years they toiled at building the city . |
| 28 | Their emergency rations ran out and for three days they had just water . |
| 29 | From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year . |
| 30 | So he rowed out to sea in his little boat , and for three days he neither ate nor fished , but let the tides carry him where they would . |