Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Butler the seller lost the battle of the forms because he was careless and failed to make his last document a counter-offer instead of an acceptance . |
| 2 | We shook hands on the deal and I grabbed the handles and began to push my first cock sparrow back over the bridge towards the Whitechapel Road . |
| 3 | As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book . |
| 4 | In January 1867 he went to the Paris exhibition as horticultural correspondent for that weekly , as well as the Field and The Times , and started to write his first two books , Gleanings from French Gardens ( 1868 ) and The Parks , Promenades and Gardens of Paris ( 1869 ) . |
| 5 | She paused , and appeared to select her next words carefully . |
| 6 | Edmund Mortimer , with blood running down inside the plates of his armour , heaved his mount out of the mire and up to firm ground , and wheeled to take his first brief survey of the field , and locate the main body of the Welsh cavalry , for only in hand-to-hand combat with them was there any respite from the steady and murderous attentions of the bowmen above . |
| 7 | For instance , when I first started writing , and had completed my first novels , I was not allowed to sign a contract for it . |
| 8 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 9 | Poor students at the university were long known as ‘ mealie students ’ because they took a sack of meal and salt lumps with them and had to make it last all term . |
| 10 | When she moved in Virginia Woolf was thirty-seven and had published her first novel The Voyage Out and had her second , Night and Day , accepted ; all her other books were to be in part written at Monk 's House . |
| 11 | Twice I asked Ward about this , the first time just after we had come out of the cloud on the eastern slope of the pass and had caught our first glimpse of Cajamarca far away in the valley below , and then again when we stopped at the Baños del Inca to ask our way , the hot springs steaming beside the public baths . |
| 12 | He returned to racecourse action for his hurdling debut at Kempton a year ago , and progressed to win his next three outings , culminating in a narrow victory from Oh So Risky at Cheltenham , where he became the first novice to win the Champion Hurdle since Doorknocker in 1956 . |
| 13 | Crossing the Jotunheim in 1872 he had seen Störe Skagastölstind , the Matterhorn of the northern Alps , and resolved to make its first ascent . |
| 14 | Cantona 's eventual finish , a delightful turn and shot to claim his first goal for United , was a peach . |
| 15 | One went to bed at the house … and awoke to find himself first being strangled , then taken to a bath . |