Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] four " in BNC.
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1 | Gibson sold them four trees on the estate " … all of poor value … " part at 1s. a foot and partly at 1s. 6d . |
2 | well you got them four for ninety nine and you enjoyed them did n't you ? |
3 | Well we beat them four , three in the F A cup final cup . |
4 | Well we beat them four , three in the F A cup final cup . |
5 | I 've also got an Explorer which cost me four hundred bucks — mind you , there 's no case with that . |
6 | She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children . |
7 | He was twice married , first in the 1820s to Eleanor Downing ( or Downie ) of Cumberland , who bore him four sons but died c .1834 , and second , to a widow , originally Anne Poole of Newcastle upon Tyne , sister of Henry Bolckow 's first wife . |
8 | A good example is Dances With Wolves which cost us four thousand as a and has already sold over a hundred and twenty thousand copies . |
9 | The latest threat to children recently is not just wait till your dad gets home , but , my daughter told her four week old baby , if you 're not good I 'll put you on the fax and send you through to daddy . |
10 | I paid you four ninety nine for Braddock |
11 | The sailors face split into a grin for the first tame when Yanto handed him four pound notes . |
12 | We paid him four hundred quid , a month 's rent . |
13 | See say you do n't gon na gallop five fur you did n't gallop five furlongs , well , they might think you 're gon na finish five , you only galloped 'em four . |
14 | But , last year , we put , no wait a minute , last year , we paid 'em four hundred and eight pound fifty two , and they put two hundred and seventy two pound fifty interest on . |
15 | She rang it twice , she rang it four times , but there was no response . |
16 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
17 | It took me four to five months to get back to the weight I was before I was pregnant . |
18 | It took me four hours at a boffin-house and lasted through two sherries , three bottles of wine , a little brandy and a proposal ( of marriage ) . |
19 | Then it took me four or five days to be able to walk with a stick . |
20 | When ARA famine officials went from Kazan' to Simbirsk in the autumn of 1921 , it took them four days to cover 150 miles . |
21 | It took them four fuming hours . |
22 | McManus 's own hot streak brought him four frames in a row including a vital 39 clearance in the fifth . |
23 | It took him four or five visits before he asked her if he could unstrap what he called his piece of timber . |
24 | It took him four years to get used to the doors at Stoneleigh ! |
25 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
26 | It took him four years to write his third , and posthumously published , novel , A Voice Through a Cloud ( 1950 ) , an account of the accident itself and his struggle to convalesce . |
27 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
28 | Somebody was telling me it took her four years ! |
29 | Yeah we 've erm they offered us four and a half percent . |
30 | Chiddingfold continued to dominate and Judge made it four following a corner . |