Example sentences of "and [pron] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own case at this point was by no means typical of the average or a product of the time — some 12 years service , and my five years as an NCO pilot coming to an end . |
| 2 | The time factor was obviously the most urgent one and my five months in England were used to forward the plans for operating the Department when once it got back to Burma . |
| 3 | Ben Kingsley plays Martin Boyns , a middle-aged engineer at the turn of the century who feels that life has passed him by , and his one chance of happiness is in marrying his longtime friend , Rose Sellars ( Kim Novak ) . |
| 4 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 5 | His principal sexual enjoyment seemed to come from sleeping with young boys and his one foray into a heterosexual relationship ended dismally with his middle-aged paramour complaining , ‘ I ca n't seem to make him understand that biting 's no good . ’ |
| 6 | It was their deep love for the Llŷn landscape , and a desire to keep it protected for future generations , which prompted the three Keating sisters , Honora , Lorna and Eileen , and their eighty-year-old mother to buy Plas-yn-Rhiw and its fifty-eight acres in 1939 ; later they purchased over 300 acres more with the express purpose of giving the land to the trust . |
| 7 | Altdorf is also the centre of magic lore and its eight Colleges of Magic are justly famous throughout the Old World and beyond . |
| 8 | It is not just the country 's size , and its 70 years under communism ( against Poland 's 40 ) . |
| 9 | Haddo House and its 180 acres of gardens lies about 20 miles north of Aberdeen . |
| 10 | Personnel from the Oil Spill Service Centre at Northam were called in and laid the terminal 's boom across the mouth of the river Hamble , sealing off the river and its four marinas from the threat of pollution . |
| 11 | The logic of TGAT , however , and its ten levels of attainment , suggests that alternative strategies are open to us if we care to use them ; and this is borne out by the small print of Circular 5/89 , which stresses that the keystages themselves are to be understood with reference to the pupils ' average ages , so that a pupil may ‘ be taught with another age group for one or more subject areas where appropriate … while remaining with his or her peer group for other subjects . ’ |
| 12 | The longest determinate prison sentence ever upheld by English courts was the sentence of forty-five years ' imprisonment in the case of Hindawi ( 1988 ) , a man who sent his pregnant girlfriend on a flight with a bag which contained a bomb timed to destroy the aircraft and its 350 passengers in mid-flight . |
| 13 | E alone names the Scottish kings involved , but this information was present in its Canterbury precursor , as it appears in F. The latter also has E's 1025 entry on the battle of Holy River , its 1032 annal on the appearance of wildfire and death of Bishop Ælfsige of Winchester , and its 1033 material on the death of the bishop of Wells . |
| 14 | And her one trip across the bay on a six-berth Swedish cruiser-racer owned by a visiting friend of her father 's was a treasured memory . |
| 15 | But because she was widowed , the community no longer supported her and she eked out a living for herself and her two children by selling her cow 's milk together with any wood , grass or cow dung she managed to collect . |
| 16 | She and her daughter set up schools in New Haven and New York , where her daughter died in 1828 , leaving her and her four grandchildren to a semi-nomadic and seemingly ill-fated existence in America . |
| 17 | This involved a woman aged 92 , and her four sons aged 54 , 63 , 68 , and 72 . |
| 18 | The king 's soldiers saw her beautiful white dress and her three medals for goodness , and they opened the doors to the gardens at once . |
| 19 | Sleep would perhaps make more sense after thirty-six hours straight on duty , much of it spent with a sullen Jamaican who had killed his landlady and her three children in the crowded kitchen of a house behind the Westway . |
| 20 | They 're left on day and night , and their one purpose in life is to handle data requested by and sent from workstations . |
| 21 | In the eighties the O'Briens , with Juan and Miguel on ten and their two cousins on nine , had predominated . |
| 22 | The camera caught the six men squarely in its lens : Wang Sau-leyan to the left , Hung Mien-lo just behind him , Gesell , Mach and their two companions to the right . |
| 23 | Beryl Cooper brought her 75-year old father home to live with herself , her husband and their two children on the day her mother died . |
| 24 | The royals are sailing with friends Lord and Lady Romsey and their two children on Greek billionaire John Latsis 's 354ft yacht Alexander . |
| 25 | Ferrier hit Miss Brady in his mother 's home in Blackburn , West Lothian , and then twice in the house he shared with her and their two children at Mosside Drive , Blackburn . |
| 26 | Miloš also wrote to the Austrian authorities and Metternich thought it advisable to remove Vuk from Zemun , first to Buda and then to join his Austrian wife and their two children in Vienna . |
| 27 | The business folded last year — and Roger , his wife and business partner Joan and their four staff in Wimbledon , South London , were left with nothing . |
| 28 | His wife , Gabrielle , and their four children including girls aged seven , ten and 11 were in the living room at the time . |
| 29 | Thus in a case in 1969 , where the 10-year-old child born in England of Spanish parents had been very unhappy during the seventeen months he had spent with them in Spain , and had then lived happily for several years with foster parents and their six children in England , the court refused to make an order that care and control should be granted to the parents , one of whom was in poor health . |
| 30 | However , polls can turn out to be unreliable — as the UK discovered in its own general election earlier this year — and Cook places 11 states and their 124 votes in the toss-up column ; so the president may yet find himself coming home from behind , as he said in his Labour Day speech , like his famous predecessor , Harry Truman . |