Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I took pity on him and lent him forty . |
| 2 | They crowded round the Bookman , apart from Mr Rumback who had fallen asleep in all the excitement , and asked him hundreds of questions all at once . |
| 3 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 4 | They later formed Theme Holdings with Peter Langan , opened three restaurants , floated the company on the stock market in 1987 ( value £6m ) and sold it two years later for £18m . |
| 5 | ‘ But they bought it for £46 million and sold it six months later for £92 million , and there was nothing we could do about it . ’ |
| 6 | And made him one of the leading authorities on the fourteenth century , which was arguably the most terrible century that had ever been , at least until the present one . |
| 7 | This enabled him to tell old jokes as if they were new and made him one of the ‘ all time great ’ story tellers . |
| 8 | Eranio 's superbly struck 31st-minute goal gave them victory over Portuguese champions Porto and made it four triumphs out of four in semi-final group B. |
| 9 | She switched on an overhead lamp and unrolled them one by one . |
| 10 | His return fire lifted Weaver off his feet and flung him two yards backwards , to sprawl at Bodie 's feet as Bodie came racing through the side garden . |
| 11 | After half an hour the bus started and moved us seventy metres , to the nearest plane , the one we could have walked to , with less effort and staying warmer . |
| 12 | At 11.30 on saturday night ward staff discovered he was missing — they began a search and found him fifteen minutes later . |
| 13 | She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children . |
| 14 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 15 | Mrs Wormwood was hooked on bingo and played it five afternoons a week . |
| 16 | Miss Harker recoiled from the small spidery apparition , but recovered quickly and granted him one of her smiles . |
| 17 | Presently he came out and handed us ten pounds in gold and a cheque for ninety pounds from Coutts 's Bank . |
| 18 | She took out little leather boxes and opened them one by one . |
| 19 | I was full stretch on top of his grace when the eyelids rolled up and showed me two white lights . |
| 20 | He picked up the dice , and showed me six sides . |
| 21 | They stabbed and slashed him 45 times with hunting knives . |
| 22 | So they took the house apart , stone by stone , and rebuilt it twenty yards further south on a piece of land recommended by the god . |
| 23 | The cantor , the rabbi , the chosen laymen stood before the open Ark , cradling the Torah scrolls , which looked like stiff-necked royal children , and returned them one by one to their golden stall . |
| 24 | I was flying as Deputy Group Commander , and followed him one minute later . |
| 25 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 26 | But my ex heard about this and sent me two letters , full of how much he cares for me and that the break-up was his fault . |
| 27 | Er , no what happened , my sister came up and brought her two kids in the afternoon |
| 28 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 29 | The living room scheme — inspired by the 1986 design for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong — is the most complex and took him two months to complete . |
| 30 | The first is nine pages of typed script and took her seventeen hours to do . |