Example sentences of "and [pers pn] was [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The red second hand was coming up to six-thirty , 14 January , and I was counting thirty-eight beats a minute , slower than ever , half the rate of two years ago . |
| 2 | My parents were 21 when they wed , and I was born 10 months later . |
| 3 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 4 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 5 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 6 | My charge was supplying cocaine and I was given two years for that and one year each concurrent for possession of small amounts of cannabis , cannabis resin , amphetamines and LSD . |
| 7 | I needed four ; two for the pram and two for the cot , and I was given two more . |
| 8 | Well I got thirty five shillings a week and I was doing six hou twelve hours a day from Monday till Friday and twelve and a half on a Saturday . |
| 9 | Andrew was on the dole and I was doing two part-time jobs . |
| 10 | And I was going ten minutes . |
| 11 | And y and I was paying eighteen pounds a week to be catered for . |
| 12 | But recently a lot more interesting projects , such as the University of the Third Age ( address on page 148 ) had got off the ground , and she was enjoying two of the courses being run locally . |
| 13 | Lawyers for her husband contested her action in the High Court in London on Wednesday and she was given seven days to hand them back . |
| 14 | I could see her paws sticking out through the wire door and she was making one hell of a racket . |
| 15 | he said and they was doing six hundred mile an hour oh yeah ? |
| 16 | Someone jumped on his right leg and he was kicked four or five times on the head before the three men ran away . |
| 17 | The child was born on 10 May 1977 and he was adopted two years later . |
| 18 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 19 | In 1888 he played in three tests for the Australians touring in England and he was capped three times for England , playing in South Africa in 1895–6 and in the West Indies in 1896–7 . |
| 20 | His 34 , though , was the best score of the day ( and he was dropped three times , at 17 , 19 and 25 ) as India declined to 135 for 5 ( Tendulkar 31 , nightwatchman Ruju 1 ) by the close , with the fiery Hughes taking three wickets . |
| 21 | The royal physician dressed the corpse for buried and it was interred eleven days later at Jedburgh . |
| 22 | Pres presentation one and it was to last three minutes and the subject was what would I do if I won two million pounds and we recorded that er on the C C T V for later playback . |
| 23 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 24 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 25 | One o'clock had been and gone , and it was approaching two . |
| 26 | The CNAA had already approved a dozen of Hatfield 's courses for honours degrees , and it was to have twenty degree courses by 1968 , establishing a pattern of honours degree , degree and sub-degree courses . |
| 27 | Its financing was switched from levies on member states to the Community 's own resources , and it was set two broad objectives : firstly , to facilitate the employment adjustment resulting from Community policies , and secondly , to help overcome the structural problems experienced by certain regions or target groups , i.e. migrant workers , young job-seekers , women and the handicapped . |