Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's unusual to go into a game with Arsenal with us losing two , and them losing three games in a row . |
| 2 | Father-in-law and me soldiered six weeks to restore it looks now . |
| 3 | So If I do this , ten and I halve it and I get five , what number have I divided by ? |
| 4 | The gangs are killing hobos for less than a dollar and I get 19 on my first try . |
| 5 | Between the Cubs Christmas Fayre and the Girls Guildry conversazzione , and I 'd two dozen melting moments for the Brownies Bring And Buy . |
| 6 | And I sold four of those as well like . |
| 7 | And I sold three three double gin three , you know . |
| 8 | He 's a superb Secretary for Trade and Industry , and I shall be here answering questions every Tuesday and Thursday , and I hope one day he may know how to ask a good one . |
| 9 | And I remember four stone steps led up to the front door , and we 'd what they called a parlour then . |
| 10 | All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’ |
| 11 | We used to have House matches at the Hurlingham track , and I remember one afternoon competing in the 100 , 200 and 400 metres and the three jumps — high , long and triple . |
| 12 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 13 | And I remember one time he gave me a list of things to do in the morning — fill this with potatoes , put the beans up on the shelves , brush the yard and then you can go out . |
| 14 | In 1928 , most of the College transferred from Shakespeare Street to the new building on the site at Highfields given by Jesse Boot , and I remember one of his sons in a car drawn through the city streets by students celebrating the move . |
| 15 | And I remember one game in particular it always stuck in me mind . |
| 16 | And I remember once old used to gather sacks , ken bags and , and he went to , and I remember one night he come , he 'd been round the country hawking and he come home . |
| 17 | With me there , but he 'd be aboard the dumb hopper and I 'd be aboard the dredger and I remember one man , he turned round , his name was ex naval man he was and er I went round on the Sunday morning and he did n't speak to me on the Saturday . |
| 18 | And I remember one year , we 'd had some Webbs Curly lettuce and I was We had a good crop and I remember one lady who stayed in and she come used to come Well practically every other days for six of these . |
| 19 | And I remember one year , we 'd had some Webbs Curly lettuce and I was We had a good crop and I remember one lady who stayed in and she come used to come Well practically every other days for six of these . |
| 20 | And we used to er do a food run down and they used to come up and erm And then we went along to a to a lodge meeting th the men invited us along and I remember one of the comments back in September from one of the men was , Oh well I 'm gon na be nagged back to work soon . |
| 21 | And I remember one of the women saying , Oh well we 'll pick at Quix we 'll make a real fuss . |
| 22 | And I remember one or two who used to sit do , keep seated , you know , just |
| 23 | and I remember one particular February , it will always stand out in my mind because er , it 's a fairly long walk done to the factory from , from here and every day after the midday meal , when I set out to walk down there as quick as I could it had been cloudy since , it was raining , every day without fail I used to get to work soaked , first |
| 24 | You 'd expect about ta , thanks you used to think cor christ and then I , I mean all the bits I did for them and I remember one woman getting up saying come on Flo come and stretch and she said who are you ? |
| 25 | In 1988 , at a particularly lively , contentious and near-violent writers ' conference in Budapest , Angela and I listened one quiet afternoon to the omnipresent Susan Sontag as she revealed that she had devoured ( her cliche ) the great classics of English literature soon after discarding her diapers . |
| 26 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
| 27 | I was the criminal , in and out of prison all my life , and I got fourteen years on the prison-ship . |
| 28 | He promised us photos of the bairn because I said that was the condition for signing , and I got one and that was that . |
| 29 | Yeah , downstairs , Clara and erm and one just carried on going straight and I got seventeen things that I can eat |
| 30 | I put two pounds in the machine up there and I got fifteen pounds , I got the three bars , er , not the three , two bars and some nudges and I nudged it |