Example sentences of "four [noun pl] we " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's four times we 've said the name . ’ |
| 4 | No one , indeed , could have been more easy-going ; but we never got on close terms or found much in common during the four months we had been together since leaving England . |
| 5 | ‘ The last four goals we 've lost have all been self-inflicted , ’ he lamented . |
| 6 | Without his Histories in Four Books we should know virtually nothing of what happened in the months following Louis the Pious 's death , and , more importantly , we should have had to guess at the motivations of those involved . |
| 7 | Erm so those are the three or four areas we 'll be doing , is reli i religious poetry , love poetry , and the satires , which are actually called elegies . |
| 8 | And in the past four decades we 've lost half of it . |
| 9 | By switching from concentration on a few ‘ proof texts ’ in evangelism to a more balanced and comprehensive approach adopted by one of the four Gospels we might see better short and long-term results in our evangelism . |
| 10 | From the four Gospels we can see the extent to which our Lord invested his time in people . |
| 11 | For four weeks we have heard telecasters mutter about the margin of error . |
| 12 | During the next four weeks we steamed from one port to another , unloading and loading a variety of cargoes . |
| 13 | That 's the second time in the past four weeks we 've had missed that . |
| 14 | That 's the second time in the past four weeks we 've had missed that |
| 15 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 16 | We met Stevie Nicks right after that and for about the next four years we were in a band in the northern California area . |
| 17 | ‘ In the last four years we have been asked to believe too many coincidences . |
| 18 | We had changed a lot over the four years we 'd been together . |
| 19 | Four years we 've been apart , and you 've never once tried to get in touch with me . |
| 20 | Over the last four years we have consistently moaned , we have passed resolutions at planning , asking committees to consider , and nothing has been done . |
| 21 | I 've only been here four years we had the white one remember the gas one got certified dangerous ? |
| 22 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 23 | During the four days we spent on Elgon we saw no other people and only one solitary gazelle . |
| 24 | ’ For four days we 've had music you could almost dance to in our own front rooms — if you like that sort of music . ’ |
| 25 | So from that day from Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday and Thursday , those four days we have there Jaws kept saying , but I have n't worked i but I have had office experience |
| 26 | Over the next four pages we salute those long-gone , daring mail order Del boys who dressed successive generations in shrink-to-fit 100% non-natural fibre finery . |
| 27 | In the next four pages we catalogue the winners and losers among the businesspersons , who were held in such high esteem by the occupant of Number 10 . |
| 28 | Four pounds we 've taken is frequent cash and a pound each and a pound at dinner time . |
| 29 | ‘ If we play like that in our last four games we will not go down . ’ |
| 30 | Anyway , defeat in the County Shield may be for the best because , let's not be hasty , but after just four games we look like having Division Three wrapped up . |