Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The sailors face split into a grin for the first tame when Yanto handed him four pound notes . |
| 6 | She rang it twice , she rang it four times , but there was no response . |
| 7 | It took me four hours at a boffin-house and lasted through two sherries , three bottles of wine , a little brandy and a proposal ( of marriage ) . |
| 8 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
| 9 | When ARA famine officials went from Kazan' to Simbirsk in the autumn of 1921 , it took them four days to cover 150 miles . |
| 10 | McManus 's own hot streak brought him four frames in a row including a vital 39 clearance in the fifth . |
| 11 | It took him four years to get used to the doors at Stoneleigh ! |
| 12 | It took him four years to write his third , and posthumously published , novel , A Voice Through a Cloud ( 1950 ) , an account of the accident itself and his struggle to convalesce . |
| 13 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 14 | Somebody was telling me it took her four years ! |
| 15 | Champions Macclesfield made it four wins in a row when they inflicted Bowdon 's first defeat , Australian Darren Berry hammering a quickfire 94 not out . |
| 16 | On Saturday , Town made it four wins in a row with a three-two victory at Bournemouth . |
| 17 | Eranio 's superbly struck 31st-minute goal gave them victory over Portuguese champions Porto and made it four triumphs out of four in semi-final group B. |
| 18 | Scholl gave me four pairs to take to the Sahara . |
| 19 | Edwards ' brilliant support play earned him four tries before the break and six in the second half to take his season 's tally to 15 — six ahead of Halifax centre Greg Austin . |
| 20 | Eventually , I gave him four 3in pots , a bucket of compost , a handful of seeds and some rudimentary instructions , and ensuring peace was wonderful . |
| 21 | The house sank into a gently decayed condition when a local architect bought it four years ago . |
| 22 | Three different horses won it four years running . |
| 23 | Farnham , on the other hand , gave us four weeks and sold out two months before opening night , for the whole run . |
| 24 | I 'd spent most of it with the other two , one bad and the other indifferent , now I 'd come across a good one and fate gave us four years together , that 's all . |
| 25 | As he slipped into unconsciousness , Rasputin was apparently sexually assaulted by one homosexual murderer , who then spitefully shot him four times . |
| 26 | His 36-hole total of 145 , after a disappointing opening round of 78 , left him four shots clear of runner-up and former champion Hew Parry of Denbigh . |
| 27 | In fact , had he four Mohammed Ali arms I doubted if he 'd know what to do with a paintbrush , or with a toothbrush for that matter . |
| 28 | and then only had it four years , but I used to it was , it 's such a waste that washing machine , I think maybe I 've done a few shirts hand washing and all the water , whereas in the twin tub I 'd of done the light weights , heated the water up done the shirts and , erm , got the put in , maybe towels and then I 'd put , re-heat the water if , if it was n't really soiled and I could do either all the dogs stuff or , or my dusters |
| 29 | That made us four hands . |
| 30 | THE landmark spire of Colmcille Roman Catholic church in Holywood has risen from the ashes of the fire which virtually destroyed it four years ago . |