Example sentences of "[pos pn] 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 | ‘ She was a companion of mine four regenerations ago . ’ |
| 23 | As a four-year-old she won all her four races , including the Coronation Cup , the Champion Stakes and the Jockey Club Cup ; in her other race she started at 55–1 on to defeat a solitary opponent . |
| 24 | Catching the eye at Brough is newcomer Bretts Dream Girl , which has won two of her four races since arriving from Ireland . |
| 25 | In it she recounts trying to come to terms with the fact that two of her four sons had been born with severe abnormalities . |
| 26 | Betty Felton now put her head back and looked from one to the other of her four sons and she said , ‘ Aye , there 's a confectioner 's an' baccy shop in that street . |
| 27 | This involved a woman aged 92 , and her four sons aged 54 , 63 , 68 , and 72 . |
| 28 | Mrs Adams said her four sons — Richard , nine , Stuart , five , Mark , two , and Thomas , 11 months — were still coming to terms with the loss of their father , a former Royal Air Force engineer whom she described as a happy , family man . |
| 29 | But whereas her father earned the respect of his people by staying in London throughout the Blitz , the Queen has few positive personal achievements to show for her four decades on the throne . |
| 30 | A Hapsburg Archduchess , travelling to take her four poodles for a Parisian clipping , had them fed three times a day on milk calf fried in Normandy butter . |