Example sentences of "[num] and [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reid , who lost winning positions on the final day in the Masters and the US PGA , was beaten 3 and 2 and when he bowed out on the 34th green he was nine under par for the day . |
| 2 | The Slovak parliament 's defence and security committee alleged that Meciar was registered with the security police or StB from 1985 and that he had removed incriminating evidence and promoted loyal former agents in the Slovak Interior Ministry after November 1989 . |
| 3 | It further reported that membership was over 100 and when it reached 150 , subscriptions would be increased . |
| 4 | 10 And after he had seen the vision , immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia , assuredly " gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them . |
| 5 | He was the first English king ( as Irish Catholics still considered him ) to visit the country since Richard III in 1394 and when he entered Dublin on 24 March , with his old friend , Tyrconnel , whom James had created a duke , riding before him , he received a rapturous reception , with bells ringing , girls in white scattering flowers in front of him , and the clergy carrying the host in a monstrance . |
| 6 | one of the lads at work come up says there 's a disco on March twenty eight and before I said I 'm already booked , I said yeah , he says er how much do you charge , I told him and I says well if you let me have confirmation as soon as you can and a deposit of ten or fifteen pounds as soon as you can |
| 7 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 8 | He had read and enjoyed her diary though there were things in it that he was sure he had not known at fourteen and that he felt , uneasily , were not quite suitable for her to know . |
| 9 | The Ombudsman found that the DTI committed errors in its advice to Barlow Clowes back in 1976 and if it had applied for a licence then it would not have been granted one . |
| 10 | Eventually he played the 4 and after I played the 7 from dummy , the trick was won by the King in the East seat . |
| 11 | The foundation is a complex of buildings which includes Son Abrines , the family home still occupied by Pilar , the artist 's widow , Son Boter , the old stone house which Miró employed as his graphics studio , coating its walls in charcoal sketches , the studio which Josep Luis Sert constructed for him in 1954–56 and where he worked until his death in 1983 , and the new exhibition centre of Sert 's pupil , Rafael Moneo , Dean of the Graduate Design School in Harvard . |
| 12 | The quotation he give was sixty five and as he said which is true they double every five years . |
| 13 | In a series of radio interviews on May 8 Annie Murphy revealed that she and Casey had embarked on a love affair in Ireland in 1973 and that she had given birth to his child two years later . |
| 14 | Dissatisfaction with this position led to the establishment of a Royal Commission in 1923 and after it reported in 1925 it was made more difficult to achieve county borough status . |
| 15 | Well it 's the plaintiff 's saying is you had one and and you handcuffed him , nevertheless , notwithstanding the fact that you had a long barrelled weapon . |
| 16 | I was just You know I used to always maybe take one and if I got bad I took maybe two a day you know . |
| 17 | I 've hardly got any in cos when I left my nursery I got them all to do me one and when I left my school I got a load of them to do me one I did n't get many at the day nursery , but I got a handful . |
| 18 | Our customers tend to be left out of these reports , but it must be said that they did part cheerfully with over 13,000 and that we enjoyed meeting them . |
| 19 | Because she 's got the two and as she said to me , it does n't matter in the junior school , he will take a teacher 's assessment or a report with him anyway . |
| 20 | He was only gone a moment or two and when he returned he was holding the complete clasp . |
| 21 | Young Michael Portillo , the chief secretary to the Treasury , struck a permanent frown , and Kenneth Clarke , the Home Secretary , stifled a yawn or two and when he thought no-one was looking . |
| 22 | Carlos Abadia , leader of the broad-based opposition movement National Civic Crusade ( NCC ) , claimed that it was well known that Ford wished to stand for the presidency in 1994 and that he wished to give up his ministerial post " to reduce the political pressure on him " . |
| 23 | He says he taught her about wildlife , geography and Henry VIII and that she loved to listen . |
| 24 | It was a bright autumn day in 1938 and as they rounded the bend and came in sight of the river , Philip took her hand and said , ‘ Look , darling , is n't that wonderful ? |
| 25 | More still are for sale legally over the counter in shops like the Brass Rail on La Brea , the store that sold guns to the Black Panthers in the 1960s and where I watched white and Korean men wearing jeans queuing to buy . |
| 26 | Wilkinson , who won the first set tie-break 7-3 , lost his way in the second when he was twice broken to trail 1-4 and although he retrieved one of the breaks , Castle had little trouble squaring the match . |
| 27 | Daniel Defoe journeyed this way in 1724 and when he passed through Settle , he noted : ‘ … we saw nothing but high mountains , which had a terrible aspect . ’ |
| 28 | He had success at Formula 5000 and when he returned to Formula One it was with better results that his first attempt . |
| 29 | Germans and Hungarians would be eligible for restitution , under legislation to be worked out by the Czech and Slovak parliaments , provided that they had not been " transferred abroad " in 1945 and that they had proclaimed themselves Czechoslovak citizens . |
| 30 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |