Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in that case , I would have the consolation of winning my bet , which would bring me four years of the magazine Private Eye . |
| 2 | I 'll give him four pounds . |
| 3 | " I 'll swop you four sentences on " Which House You 'd Prefer To Live In " for three on " When I 'm Depressed " " . |
| 4 | In my letter I mentioned the particular case of the Times Motoring correspondent who found that the return Brighton — Birmingham rail fare would cost him four times as much as the price of petrol for a car journey , despite driving a not especially economical car . |
| 5 | They estimated that it would take them four months to build the cells , the measuring equipment and constant temperature baths . |
| 6 | Do you take it four times a day or |
| 7 | So I 'd rather have it four times |
| 8 | ‘ That will take us four hours , getting us in at midnight . |
| 9 | 1781 " The Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge having appointed a Schoolmaster for the Parish of Kildaltan , with a Sallary of six pounds sterl. , on the Express condition that the Parish should pay him four pound more — Therefore the Parish of Kildaltan are Stented with the said sum . |
| 10 | ‘ After their 6–0 win over Estonia it would put them four points ahead of the Scots and boost their confidence . |
| 11 | I 'll get you four tomatoes and four potatoes ? |
| 12 | What Arran wanted was £5000 ; what he saw clearly enough was that the support of 5000 Englishmen would lose him four times that number of Scots . |
| 13 | I 'm only gon na get it four foot deep with it anyway it would n't be four foot deep all over , it 'll start off at two foot and then slightly slope down to the deep part |