Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gibson sold them four trees on the estate " … all of poor value … " part at 1s. a foot and partly at 1s. 6d . |
| 2 | You 've seen Micia have kittens-Mother of God , she has them four times a year . |
| 3 | He was twice married , first in the 1820s to Eleanor Downing ( or Downie ) of Cumberland , who bore him four sons but died c .1834 , and second , to a widow , originally Anne Poole of Newcastle upon Tyne , sister of Henry Bolckow 's first wife . |
| 4 | She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children . |
| 5 | I assume I must have made it because when the noise of movement outside wakes me four hours later that is where I am . |
| 6 | I 'm gon na say to him in future , it 's costing me four quid |
| 7 | But in that case , I would have the consolation of winning my bet , which would bring me four years of the magazine Private Eye . |
| 8 | Written you four stories , showed you one . |
| 9 | Those offences cost him four matches . |
| 10 | I 'll give him four pounds . |
| 11 | The latest threat to children recently is not just wait till your dad gets home , but , my daughter told her four week old baby , if you 're not good I 'll put you on the fax and send you through to daddy . |
| 12 | done it four years and this year we 're Worcester . |
| 13 | The meat from their Old Spots is succulent , free-range and in such demand that the Russells have enough orders to sell it four times over . |
| 14 | " I 'll swop you four sentences on " Which House You 'd Prefer To Live In " for three on " When I 'm Depressed " " . |
| 15 | Because the price of a single was almost the same as the price of the return but to get a refund you have to pay an administration charge which when you add it all up comes to me owing them four pounds . |
| 16 | you owe me four quid , oh did you send that thing off then ? |
| 17 | Cos he 's got them four headlights with |
| 18 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 19 | Quick give me four pence please . |
| 20 | It can either be fixed or it can be mobile , we 'll go on to that , I 've actually drawn you four pictures , not very good pictures |
| 21 | Done there was a our school dinners today I went into this give you four pounds back I get twenty two pounds sixty Have you got two tens in change of a twenty ? |
| 22 | The sailors face split into a grin for the first tame when Yanto handed him four pound notes . |
| 23 | I 've told him four times . |
| 24 | This was the first kidnapping for ransom since November 1986 , when the NPA had seized a Japanese executive , releasing him four months later after the payment of a ransom . |
| 25 | She was saying four years four years and I said I 've not had it four years |
| 26 | Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well |
| 27 | Secondly , why is there imprisonment in England and Wales when the Government abolished it four years ago in Scotland ? |
| 28 | Ward had bought it four years earlier with part of the advance on one of his books . |
| 29 | I I had er a return ticket from York to Gloucester and I was fortunate enough to get a lift back so I went into the station to ask if I could get a refund on the other half of the return and they said Sure you owe us four pounds . |
| 30 | get , you know , get them in and say and say look yo well you 're gon na save money on the pints well give us four box coolers for a year and you |