Example sentences of "[pron] four [noun] [prep] " 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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I established a close affinity with the area in my four years with Middlesbrough . |
| 5 | Unfortunately my voice has seized up so that all I can do is throw my four stones at the iron handles . |
| 6 | He made no comment on the ‘ workstart pilots ’ scheme under which four schemes in different parts of the country will test how effective it is to encourage the recruitment of long-term unemployed people by paying a temporary subsidy to employees . |
| 7 | In general terms , each faculty offers an Ordinary or General degree , for which three years of study are required , and a number of degrees with honours for which four years of study are required . |
| 8 | Catching the eye at Brough is newcomer Bretts Dream Girl , which has won two of her four races since arriving from Ireland . |
| 9 | This involved a woman aged 92 , and her four sons aged 54 , 63 , 68 , and 72 . |
| 10 | But whereas her father earned the respect of his people by staying in London throughout the Blitz , the Queen has few positive personal achievements to show for her four decades on the throne . |
| 11 | A Hapsburg Archduchess , travelling to take her four poodles for a Parisian clipping , had them fed three times a day on milk calf fried in Normandy butter . |
| 12 | She and her daughter set up schools in New Haven and New York , where her daughter died in 1828 , leaving her and her four grandchildren to a semi-nomadic and seemingly ill-fated existence in America . |
| 13 | But gratefulness turned to horror on October 28 last year when , McConville , of Lurgan Road , Aghagallon , assaulted her four times in the space of three hours . |
| 14 | Toby imagined Penny as a girl of infinitely greater experience and sophistication than himself , though , in looking back on her four years at Bedford College and her half year of unemployment thereafter , Penny could only be struck by the slim amount of worldly knowledge gained , the fleeting , unsatisfactory nature of the relationships formed . |
| 15 | Now she exclusively tells PETER GRANT about her four years with the top soap and reveals that she wanted the writers to kill off the character of Chrissie Rogers . |
| 16 | On that occasion The Society thanked June for all her commitment and hard work during her four years of office . |
| 17 | It was then that the myth of ‘ the bolter ’ was born , that Frances had left her husband and deserted her four children for the love of another man . |
| 18 | A single parent living with her four children on this Sunderland estate had kept a large bedroom window covered with plastic sheeting for nearly a year ; the council had n't fixed it and she did n't have the wherewithal to do it herself . |
| 19 | During her 29-year marriage Sue Baring brought up her four children near Winchester . |
| 20 | The latest of her four books on wine , Jane MacQuitty 's Pocket Guide To Australian Wines , is published by Mitchell Beazley , price £5.95 |
| 21 | Personnel from the Oil Spill Service Centre at Northam were called in and laid the terminal 's boom across the mouth of the river Hamble , sealing off the river and its four marinas from the threat of pollution . |
| 22 | In this study a 400-element array was used to represent a rectangular plate in plane strain , loaded only at its four corners by forces parallel to the longer dimension of the plate . |
| 23 | Its four franchises in the South West are booming due to a successful advertiing formula . |
| 24 | It has been funded throughout its four years of activities on both sides of the Atlantic : primarily by the US National Endowment for the Humanities and by the EC as part of its framework for linguistic research and engineering , but also with grants from the Mellon Foundation and from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council . |
| 25 | Nor is this merely constitutional or political theory , divorced from reality , for without doubt the election in 1985 for the GLC would have turned very largely on this issue and on the view taken of the controversial Labour administration at County Hall during its four years in office . |
| 26 | It has spent around £1m over its four years in our town to tackle crime in difficult areas . ’ |
| 27 | During its four months in Sicily the little unit — and particularly its brilliant commanding officer — had been the scourge of Malta 's Hurricanes . |
| 28 | Alice put it carefully on the ground , and it ran quietly away on its four legs into the wood . |
| 29 | In innervated muscle the nAChR protein is concentrated at neuromuscular junctions ( 14 ) , and the expression of its four subunits in mammalian muscle is regulated by muscle specific promoters ( 15–19 ) . |
| 30 | Now , as the taxi proceeded on its uninterrupted journey beneath a blue veil of a sky flocked with white clouds , she felt her natural curiosity nudged into wakefulness , and leaned forward to obtain a better view of the wide tree-lined road with its four carriageways for motor traffic and its two bicycle lanes , intrigued despite her earlier uninterest . |