Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] four [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | And you could see and hear enough during them four nights to live by blackmail the rest of the week , he 'd said . |
2 | In one road , ten homes out of sixteen have been burgled in the last six months , one of them four times . |
3 | But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 . |
4 | My parents were too poor to be able to give one another a birthday present each year , though there was always a present for each of us four children , Stanley , Laura , Edith and myself . |
5 | Beyond the door was a slight recess blocked by a thick metal iron grille , and behind it four pairs of cruel red eyes gleamed in the darkness . |
6 | What is striking is that Peada was baptized by Fínán , Aidan 's successor as bishop of Lindisfarne , at Ad Murum in the vicinity of Hadrian 's Wall , and that he took back with him four priests , Cedd , Adda , Betti and Diuma , to work among the Middle Angles , the Irishman Diuma receiving consecration from Fínán , according to Bede , as bishop of the Middle Angles and the Mercians ( HE 111 , 13 ) . |
7 | ‘ All she could remember was waking up in a shower with him four hours after drinking with him . |
8 | I bumped into him four weeks later and he said , ‘ Oi , you made it all up ’ and I swallowed something sharp and jagged , shrivelled like a salted snail and said , ‘ Yeah I did ’ . |
9 | ’ My husband asked them why they did n't take a statement from me four years ago . |
10 | What a pity you could n't have talked to me four years ago , instead of simply walking out . ’ |