Example sentences of "four [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Friends , enemies , Englishmen , ’ I began , ‘ hear now the claims of Scotland ! ’ , and for four minutes I spelled out what I thought they were . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 7 | three or four times I had to speak to him last night , and you never said a word , you just pretended or said you did n't hear |
| 8 | The four months I spent there were really one of the best things I 've ever done . |
| 9 | Then after four months I will have a long holiday . ’ |
| 10 | For three of four months I could n't think or do anything else . |
| 11 | And after about four months I thought I was strong enough to tackle the weight , and that it would n't be too much going on at once . |
| 12 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 13 | Two years later when I was sixty and four months I was made redundant quite happy . |
| 14 | She 's got three or four presents I think . |
| 15 | Yes we 've got four winners I think after the record . |
| 16 | we had four kids I mean now it 's only when we get visitors you know when |
| 17 | The four periods I would identify are these : |
| 18 | ‘ This is the best start I have made to any season and it is the best four rounds I have ever put together , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Yes it has , and as my mind races back over nearly four decades I can not help but smile , how is it possible that everything has changed so much ? |
| 20 | well , oh you 're supposed to have four cups I 'll er I 'll use it one day and not tell you and see if you can tell the difference shall I ? |
| 21 | It 's interesting that despite all that 's been said about migration and I 'll come back to it , but we actually start , the county and ourselves , from the same point , more or less , within about four four dwelling I think . |
| 22 | It 's gon na be even more difficult another three or four posts I believe are now appointed with Aiden that will create vacancies . |
| 23 | Caught four fish I think it 's West Clandon or somewhere it 's in Surrey it 's where his Dad 's got he takes out his annual |
| 24 | For four weeks I let it lie on my desk , unwilling to take the final step . |
| 25 | about four weeks I do n't know whether how would that went down when he phoned her and told her . |
| 26 | ‘ For the past four weeks I 've been in the Middle East on business , and this place has been empty and locked up . ’ |
| 27 | As I hope to leave Britain within four weeks I would be immensely grateful if you could Fax me back with a reply as soon as is convenient , as I need the information to determine when I should book an air ticket . |
| 28 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
| 29 | But I mean er you can get cassette based ones which are quite cheap and cheap to run cos you just use , you know , good quality metal tapes and you get four tracks I think they even make a six track one now , or an eight track . |
| 30 | So after four years I thought I 'd survived . |