Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] four [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know I was four bottles short one day . |
| 2 | When I was four years old the book reads : ‘ Very fond of dressing up , especially in an old nylon nightdress ’ — ‘ the princess dress … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I fell out of a tree when I was four years old . |
| 4 | Although these rules were constantly adjusted under pressure , it was not until 1932 ( when I was four years old ) that the principle of free places in selective secondary academic schools — grammar schools , — for short — was directly challenged . |
| 5 | I was four years younger . |
| 6 | I was four years old when my mother died . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I told you — when I was four years old . |
| 8 | Until I was four years old this sort of behaviour continued , then a brother was born and when I saw him , my first frightened question was : " Can he read ? " |
| 9 | But , although that sweet may have made you forget a grazed knee when you were four years old , I have never heard of a chocolate ( or even a whole box of them ) bringing back a lost love , changing the grade on an examination paper or reversing an unwelcome redundancy . |
| 10 | When it came to the television debate between Carter and Reagan , the latter brilliantly exploited his advantage on economic questions by asking the voters to consider ‘ Are you better off than you were four years ago ? ’ |
| 11 | They 're almost exactly the same as you were four weeks ago . |
| 12 | She was just like me , she had been told that her prognosis was good and yet here she was four years later . |
| 13 | In the past , probably because she was four years older , Laura had always seemed the more dominant figure . |
| 14 | She was four years older than Jessie but he would treat them both alike . |
| 15 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 16 | This garment grew with the child , so she was still wearing it to play in the garden when she was four years old ! |
| 17 | Four in , in both those occasions she was four years into her term of office . |
| 18 | So it is particularly refreshing to come across one company that not only recruited its company secretary and main board director when she was four months pregnant , but also waited for almost a year for her to join full time . |
| 19 | She had recovered her figure after the birth of both her children very quickly , but now it looked as if she was four months pregnant . |
| 20 | You see , she was four months pregnant when they divorced . |
| 21 | This had also been Marie 's experience , even though she had got married when she was four months pregnant : |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't bother buying a crib ; Rachel went straight into her carrycot and stayed there until she was four months when she moved to the cot . |
| 23 | We were four days in Piraeus and every day I went back to the Acropolis . |
| 24 | Yeah we were four days drive from the Grand Canyon . |
| 25 | Following him were four men carrying a coffin . |
| 26 | The Bangles ' famed ‘ gimmick ’ was that they were Four Chicks . |
| 27 | He paid a brief homage to the Gnomes , who had journeyed all the way from the Gallan Mountains to bring their ideas for the new Queen 's Crown Jewels and did not refer to the fact that they were four days late on account of getting lost on the way . |
| 28 | BRISTOL ROVERS midfielder Andy Reece moaned after going down 5–1 to WOLVES : ‘ There is no way they were four goals better than us . ’ |
| 29 | But a report from the London Society of Chartered Accountants says that firms among the 250 quizzed are even less optimistic than they were four months ago about the general business outlook . |
| 30 | Yeah , but they did just on Friday night that they were some of them were four years old ! |