Example sentences of "my 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 .
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