Example sentences of "and [vb past] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richardson scored 53 and shared a second wicket partnership of 141 with man-of-the-match Lara , who hit 14 boundaries and made his runs from 132 deliveries before being run out . |
| 2 | The lawyer , however , still wished to win his argument and asked a second question , |
| 3 | She joined this congregation in 1650 and became a Fifth Monarchist in 1652 . |
| 4 | Zahid took another , and made a second castle . |
| 5 | Glentoran 's Neil Candlish , looking like his old explosive self , hit two in eight minutes and made a third for Damien Kelly with a superb cross , as the Glens swept into a three goal interval lead . |
| 6 | After they have turned round under gravity and interacted a second time with the microwaves , the fraction of atoms in the F=4 level is detected and recorded . |
| 7 | These corners are sometimes almost more difficult for the men than for the women , as we use longer skis but I handled the course well and produced a 3rd place , my most encouraging FIS race result for some time . |
| 8 | This behaved in the same way as the first unit , so I took this one back and got a third … |
| 9 | He conscientiously pinched the opposite fold of her sweet vulva , and fastened a second peg to her . |
| 10 | I wriggled down underneath the contraption and found a fourth , barely alive . |
| 11 | President Bush explained on Wednesday that he decided to send in thousands of marines to capture General Noriega and restore democracy in Panama , after forces under Noriega 's command killed one unarmed US serviceman , wounded another , arrested and assaulted a third and brutally interrogated his wife , threatening her with sexual abuse . |
| 12 | Mr Walsh 's murder came just 11 hours after the UFF shot dead four Catholics and injured a fifth man as they arrived to carry out building work on houses in Castlerock . |
| 13 | Team captain Murphy grabbed a first half hat-trick and added a fourth 15 minutes from the end to make it a great day for the Derry boys . |
| 14 | Manville had pruned Hayman 's original shortlist of five to just two names , and added a third of his own choosing from the original dossier . |
| 15 | But Derby kept up their hundred percent home record and added a third goal with thunderous free kick . |
| 16 | Huy looked down at him and fired a last question : ‘ Have you seen Surere ? ’ |
| 17 | Trailing overnight leader Sainz by 25 seconds at the start of the day , the British champion steadily whittled away the deficit and opened a 12-second lead on the penultimate stage , before easing up and finishing two seconds ahead of the Spaniard . |
| 18 | During the year , GTI added surface mount products for the mobile communications market as well as ISDN devices to its range of offerings , and opened a third manufacturing facility in China . |
| 19 | My predecessor had read law and obtained a first , but I chose to read social anthropology simply because of a pleasure in the subject . |
| 20 | East won with the king and returned a second club to dummy 's king , with South discarding a second diamond from hand . |
| 21 | Patel 's seventh-wicket pairing with Cairns had reached record proportions on Day 4 by the time , when 97 , he pulled Lewis towards the midwicket boundary and sensed a first Test century . |
| 22 | At the Ecu de France , Charles behaved a little recklessly and ordered a second bottle of wine , which surprised Clarissa . |
| 23 | But in July the Appeal Court quashed the conviction and ordered a second trial . |
| 24 | The locals thought she was a stuck-up bitch from Belfast , which she played up to the hilt , and the other guests — foreigners , mostly Dutch and Germans by their collar sizes — were taken by her vivacity , and the calm indulgence of the quiet , handsome man opposite her , who said little , smiled a lot , and ordered a second full fried breakfast in a way that had the waitress fit to melt into his arms . |
| 25 | They continued to do some work in this area and developed a third expert system for another circuit board in exactly the same way . |
| 26 | On July 10 the President then dissolved the entire transitional government for the second time and named a third adminstration which excluded Mohamed Taki on July 16 [ for earlier administrations see pp. 38706-07 ; 38902 ] . |
| 27 | He equalised after 67 minutes and hit a last minute winner . |
| 28 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 29 | The old man dipped his nose and took a first careful sip . |
| 30 | She then went to Wycombe Abbey , left at seventeen and took a first in modern history from the Society of Home Students ( later St Anne 's College ) in Oxford in 1905 . |