Example sentences of "[pron] four [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was doing my four hours on and eight off , and as a supernumerary was given a variety of jobs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I spend more time with my four dogs than anyone else because I am often alone writing . |
| 9 | ‘ They 're my four suspects . |
| 10 | I shall deal with my four brothers and two sisters later . |
| 11 | She was by far the quietest , as well as much the nicest , of my four aunts , and normally a rather shy woman . |
| 12 | ‘ To enable discussions of the project to take place in total secrecy , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm taking my four colleagues cruising in the Cyclades . |
| 13 | After my four days Ken was to set off on his own curtailed family holiday . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ I established a close affinity with the area in my four years with Middlesbrough . |
| 17 | A woman said : ‘ I 'm going back too and then I 'll return with my four children . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ My four children were brought up on Merseyside and that is where my home is . |
| 19 | ‘ I have used Nurse Harvey 's Gripe Mixture for all my four children . |
| 20 | Er so I think the first of my four points is the is the airframe agility , clearly the the ability to m manoeuvre . |
| 21 | Unfortunately my voice has seized up so that all I can do is throw my four stones at the iron handles . |
| 22 | well I rang er , well I four weeks it 's |
| 23 | ‘ She was a companion of mine four regenerations ago . ’ |
| 24 | This onslaught was driven back by a police baton charge in the course of which four youths were slightly hurt . |
| 25 | He made no comment on the ‘ workstart pilots ’ scheme under which four schemes in different parts of the country will test how effective it is to encourage the recruitment of long-term unemployed people by paying a temporary subsidy to employees . |
| 26 | Who can remember what four things which four things go into a blast furnace ? |
| 27 | Skipper Townsend 's 19th-minute strike proved decisive in an acrimonious cup-tie in which four players were booked and Chelsea 's Gareth Hall was sent off . |
| 28 | Other attacks included : ( i ) an explosion at the offices of the French Banque Nationale de Paris in Athens on March 10 , 1989 , which a group calling itself Revolutionary Solidarity claimed was in support of the French urban guerrilla organization Action Directe ; ( ii ) a bomb attack on April 10 on a judge 's apartment in Athens for which the May 1 Revolutionary Organization claimed responsibility and threatened to attack any judge supporting the extradition to the USA of Muhammad Rashid [ see p. 36667 ] ; ( iii ) a bomb attack on the Justice Ministry on June 1 and on three government offices in Athens and Piraeus on June 13 for which the Revolutionary Popular Struggle ( ELA ) claimed responsibility ; ( iv ) car-bomb attacks on three US vehicles near Athens on Oct. 22 in which four Greeks were slightly injured and for which ELA claimed responsibility ; ( v ) a car-bomb attack on March 19 , 1990 , which injured a former senior British Petroleum executive ; and ( vi ) attacks on 12 cars belonging to East European and Arab diplomats on March 27 , for which an organization called Social Resistance claimed responsibility on behalf of the " vested rights of Third-World countries " . |
| 29 | Here , for the first time , Mozart demonstrated to the full his superlative skill in making music a medium for the expression of human emotions — in such highlights as Ilia 's aria ‘ Padre , germani , addio ’ , which expresses her conflict between love for her enemy and duty to her native country ; Idomeneus ' aria ‘ Fuor del mar ’ , in which the king describes how , although he is physically safe , his mind is still storm-tossed by dark forebodings ; and the masterly quartet ‘ Andrò rammingo e solo ’ — one of the great operatic ensembles of all time — in which four characters all express different emotions . |
| 30 | They broke off some pieces of dead cow parsley stalk to make a rough sort of chair for Dorcas , which four nomes could carry . |