Example sentences of "[pers pn] was 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 | She was just like me , she had been told that her prognosis was good and yet here she was four years later . |
| 10 | In the past , probably because she was four years older , Laura had always seemed the more dominant figure . |
| 11 | She was four years older than Jessie but he would treat them both alike . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | This garment grew with the child , so she was still wearing it to play in the garden when she was four years old ! |
| 14 | Four in , in both those occasions she was four years into her term of office . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You see , she was four months pregnant when they divorced . |
| 18 | This had also been Marie 's experience , even though she had got married when she was four months pregnant : |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | And a house further along in Abbey View there cos i and it was four houses actually in the |
| 21 | And it was four pounds . |
| 22 | It was four hours before even the body could be removed . |
| 23 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 24 | It was four hours later when Madeleine managed to slip in to Jeanne 's cell . |
| 25 | it was four pallets which had fell over near the door which we 're gon na get tidied up , we 'll get those tidied up in time . |
| 26 | And he would then call f ring three times I think maybe it was four times , and it was my my job to then run upstairs and I mean fast , you did n't dawdle . |
| 27 | Two or three weavers , eight spoolers , I think it was four winders |
| 28 | It was four years since the last Plan of Work was published — an indication , surely , of how low on the Government 's list of priorities is the place of safety at work . |
| 29 | The 1990–91 level of funding , a meagre £23 million , is lower than it was four years ago . |
| 30 | It was four years since they had parted , and who knew how much he had changed during that time ? |