Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Will the Secretary of State impress on the Prime Minister the need to raise with Mr. Yeltsin the substance of the conversation that my hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) and I had last Tuesday with Mr. Bikov of the Russian Academy of Science ? |
| 2 | Sandy and I took first turn ashore . |
| 3 | I suppose while this is for me cos on the sponsorship issue is , would sponsorship have any impact in terms of what I might purchase so if I went to the Scottish Opera or the ballet or to the theatre and I bought a programme which I usually do and one of the things which is interesting about the evening that erm Alan and I spent last time at Scottish Council was that half the people attend Scottish Opera buy a programme and the programmes that I have sponsored always . |
| 4 | Well we got married in nineteen forty one and I lived first of all in Sussex where erm my mother was living because my husband went into the Air Force and he was erm away for five years , well we had a lot of bombing in the early part of the war in Sussex and my father eventually came here to Harlow thinking we were getting away from it and of course we came right into the V er what was it ? |
| 5 | Kaz and I went first ; what a thrill it was . |
| 6 | As it turned out , Donovan Reid won and I came second , missing the third individual place but feeling that I was in with a chance of making the relay team . |
| 7 | I went in for it and I came third . |
| 8 | But I did n't give up , I went in for another and I came third again , and then I gave up , so that was the end of that . |
| 9 | Because of the shortage of money , we only sent two backstrokers to Antwerp in 1920 , and I came third in the trials , which were held in the open air pool at Southport , now a children 's playground . |
| 10 | When I reviewed my performance I thought , well , it was my first major World Championship and I came fourth . |
| 11 | Alex , Chris and I sat next to each other in our underpants , staring at the others : nudity revealed a lot of scarred , disfigured bodies , with missing fingers and toes , the marks of surgical operations , and huge tattoos . |
| 12 | The fact that Ian and I arrived first gives us priority , and it was extremely foolish of you to set up in opposition . |
| 13 | And I won second prize which is England ! |
| 14 | My lover and I dined last night in Cambridge at the Master 's Lodge of his college . |
| 15 | I 'm not and I bought last night ! |
| 16 | These included the restoration of Scottish peerages forfeited after the rebellion of '45 , the continuation of the Scottish currency , and — to me most dramatic and romantic of all — his discovering in a locked box in Edinburgh Castle the ancient regalia of Scotland ; the crown and sceptre and sword of state with which the kings of Scotland had always been crowned , and which had last been used at the coronation of Charles II at Scone . |
| 17 | There was a man who 'd just lived through an explosion underground , who turned round and sawed off Pengilly 's injured leg smack smooth , who passed the night forging a banker 's letter of credit , and who spent next day drawing wool over the eyes of the Manchester & leeds directors . |
| 18 | Mr Brandt , who was mayor of West Berlin 28 years ago when East Berlin put up the Wall and who stood next to Mr Kennedy during his famous speech , said the barbed wire and wall were ‘ against the flow of history ’ , but added that it should remain as an ‘ an historical monstrosity ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ And who fired first ? ’ |
| 20 | But then at two or three after midnight , a stack of dishes in the sink promising her a greasy good morning , Martin would feel drunkenly randy and she fought first her tiredness then her ( unreasonable ? ) anger when the next evening was the same . |
| 21 | And she said last year I 'd pulled that on the furniture , and like the first year you 're old enough to really wrap and there was a tap on the window and Theresa went out and she went , and come back and she went oh my God Father Christmas is out there and she said |
| 22 | " Oh , flick it , " muttered Jill daintily , for she was the kind of good girl favoured by her father as secretary , and she ran next door to the telephone . |
| 23 | Christmas time and she did last year |
| 24 | And we came second out of all the schools . |
| 25 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
| 26 | She wanted to be a star — and they came second . |
| 27 | September 1991 saw their first entry into a small local dog show and they parked next to a couple with two Dobermans who knew what dog showing was all about . |
| 28 | But the Foss men were famously militant , they had been ever since a young minister with lordly tastes and little scholarship had been foisted on them by the laird twelve years before and they had first boycotted him , then run him down the road on a cart . |
| 29 | Queen Of Shannon 's jockey Michael Tebbutt showed plenty of enterprise when he and John Reid were the only riders to stick to the far rail for most of the race — and they finished first and second . |
| 30 | The roof literally fell in on Montreal last year when storms ripped off their Olympic Stadium 's retractable top , and they finished last in the National League East . |