Example sentences of "four [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He specialised in collecting the work of four artists he considered to be the true Cubists , Picasso , Braque , Leger and Gris . |
| 2 | You 've got eleven people you need four groups you do n't have four groups it 's not worth doing is it ? |
| 3 | You 've got eleven people you need four groups you do n't have four groups it 's not worth doing is it ? |
| 4 | ‘ Got four sons he has , they 'll all need shoes too , I should n't be surprised . ’ |
| 5 | In their four meetings she had never questioned him about his job , had seldom mentioned the power station except , as on this afternoon , to complain half seriously that it spoilt the view . |
| 6 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 7 | For four hours they chanted ‘ Down with ( Yefrem ) Sokolov ’ — the republic 's party chief — and cheered calls for the prosecution of those running the republic 's government at the time of the disaster . |
| 8 | For more than four hours they battled to bring the blaze under control and stop dangerous fumes spreading across Cheshire . |
| 9 | Within four hours it was all over , and the following morning thousands of officers and men found themselves incarcerated in the Cittadella , the great sixteenth-century fortress built by the Farnese on the outskirts of the city . |
| 10 | Always Now it does n't mean to say every twenty four hours it has to quickly spin round . |
| 11 | So in twenty four hours it will be exactly as it is now having gone all the way round , yes ? |
| 12 | For just over four hours he had resisted while a famous collapse took place , his longest-lasting partner being the unlikely Salisbury . |
| 13 | and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend |
| 14 | So West Indies won by an innings and 156 runs ; yet had England managed to hold on for just another three or four minutes they would have got a draw , for the heavens opened and further play would have been impossible . |
| 15 | For four minutes they held this agonising pose . |
| 16 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 17 | Steve has got one that he played at the last S L Os meeting , it lasts about four minutes it 's as long as the song he ai n't heavy he 's my brother . |
| 18 | ‘ Friends , enemies , Englishmen , ’ I began , ‘ hear now the claims of Scotland ! ’ , and for four minutes I spelled out what I thought they were . |
| 19 | ‘ Within four minutes he asked me out to dinner . |
| 20 | Inside four minutes she had a doctor , a plain van and a rendezvous . |
| 21 | In at least three of the four cases it is the notion of ‘ gender role ’ that ultimately underpins the explanation . |
| 22 | Thirty four P they 're about an inch long . |
| 23 | putting folk there and come back , and putting them and coming back and he then he did , that was four loads he would have had you see and then had to take them all back home again . |
| 24 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 25 | Of the four lecturers I interviewed , three could be broadly described as ‘ traditional ’ in their views , while one might be described as having a ‘ radical ’ viewpoint in so far as she challenged the conventional wisdom of English studies . |
| 26 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 27 | Erm and erm I do n't think that on the to go on about affordable housing as I did this morning , I do n't think that in fact the affordable housing targets which the different authorities have and although I 've only quoted four authorities I think , I think the other ones will be very much the same . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's four times we 've said the name . ’ |
| 29 | Three or four times they varied the system to pull me from my palliasse at a dead hour of the morning-about three-thirty or four a.m . |
| 30 | But in America where the extended cut method of mining is taken further , their underground accident record per man shift is four times ours . |