Example sentences of "[pron] four [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In many cases the school was also the church , where the small groups of Christians , almost entirely Karen in race , gathered for Sunday worship and for Holy Communion when I was able to turn up , or occasionally one of my four Karen ‘ curates ’ . |
2 | I was doing my four hours on and eight off , and as a supernumerary was given a variety of jobs . |
3 | I have taken and passed the IAM test , and have finally put paid to any more irritating jokes about female from my husband and my four sons . |
4 | In the summer of our second year in Rye my four grandchildren came to stay — Mark , Elizabeth , Emma , Charlotte — and I realised that for more than a hundred years there had not been a child at Lamb House . |
5 | Pity they could n't actually have joined us because I was last there on a Monday night and my four friends and I swelled the numbers beyond double figures . |
6 | In fact , I 'm as closely related to them as my mother is , if you think about it , because I share half my genes with my four siblings and my mother shares half her genes with my four siblings . |
7 | In fact , I 'm as closely related to them as my mother is , if you think about it , because I share half my genes with my four siblings and my mother shares half her genes with my four siblings . |
8 | My four foot tank contains a mixture of cichlids , a pair of Synodontis eupterus , a Whiptail and two Plecs . |
9 | In my four foot tank I have two Oscars , two Tinfoil barbs and a Sailfin Plec . |
10 | Can you recommend some dwarfs for my four foot tank ? |
11 | I 'm quite concerned that my four year old daughter is after a Sindy doll and wondering whether perhaps Sindy dolls should n't be produced in erm such diverse figures as real life ? |
12 | I soon found that different dye lots knitted to different sizes , so that stripes in the dark colours needed four rows less than the lighter ones to make my four inches . |
13 | ‘ I spend more time with my four dogs than anyone else because I am often alone writing . |
14 | ‘ They 're my four suspects . |
15 | my four quid that is . |
16 | I shall deal with my four brothers and two sisters later . |
17 | She was by far the quietest , as well as much the nicest , of my four aunts , and normally a rather shy woman . |
18 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
19 | ‘ To enable discussions of the project to take place in total secrecy , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm taking my four colleagues cruising in the Cyclades . |
20 | After my four days Ken was to set off on his own curtailed family holiday . |
21 | I shall be illustrating each of these four views of style with one of my four examples of modern stylistics , but let me first say exactly what my headings mean . |
22 | I 've enjoyed my four years at Widnes but I think a change of clubs will help me get back on the international scene , ’ said Tait , 27 , who has agreed a three-year contract with the Headingley club . |
23 | He said : ‘ I established a close affinity with the area in my four years with Middlesbrough . |
24 | A woman said : ‘ I 'm going back too and then I 'll return with my four children . ’ |
25 | ‘ My four children were brought up on Merseyside and that is where my home is . |
26 | ‘ I have used Nurse Harvey 's Gripe Mixture for all my four children . |
27 | Er so I think the first of my four points is the is the airframe agility , clearly the the ability to m manoeuvre . |
28 | Unfortunately my voice has seized up so that all I can do is throw my four stones at the iron handles . |
29 | well I rang er , well I four weeks it 's |
30 | ‘ She was a companion of mine four regenerations ago . ’ |