Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I played on four albums for Barry Gibb ; I worked for Dionne Warwick on the ‘ Heartbreaker ’ and some film music for ‘ Staying Alive ’ . |
| 2 | After coming here I worked for four months in a sweet factory in Stratford . |
| 3 | Still , this orgy of food and sex would have suited the dear departed Peter Langan ( with whom I worked for four years ) very nicely . |
| 4 | ‘ I decided on four days because I reckoned that that 's as near to being a full-timer as you can be , while still gaining something significant for yourself . |
| 5 | I lost about four inches |
| 6 | I took about four rolls . |
| 7 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 8 | Frankl himself came through four concentration camps with an unimpaired , nay an enhanced , mentality . |
| 9 | One gang , which consisted of four coachmakers and two labourers , prepared and placed all timber , panels and other materials on the spot where it was required , and no man who was engaged on actual repairs was required to leave the job to look up any material . |
| 10 | The latest unit to go in IBM Corp 's cutting loose of its surplus manufacturing plants , which started with four factories in Europe last week , is IBM Canada Ltd 's Toronto manufacturing division , which is to become a separate , wholly owned subsidiary with a different , but as yet undetermined , name and logo : the Toronto division employs about 900 and has export revenues of some $800m annually ; all employees will be offered positions with the new company , which will continue to manufacture products for IBM — for the time being at least , and will also seek work outside the company . |
| 11 | Earlier in November right-wing police elements had perpetrated a series of attacks and assaults which resulted in four police officers being placed before the courts by Gen. Rodolfo Stange , the police director-general ( and then junta member ) . |
| 12 | The blast damaged houses and a caused a fire which lasted for four hours . |
| 13 | However , although she had an absolute majority of the MPs entitled to participate , she failed by four votes to register in addition the required 15 per cent margin ( 56 votes ) over Heseltine , and a second ballot was necessary . |
| 14 | She was then based at Portland from where she sailed on four month training cruises . |
| 15 | Leicester , who arrived without four regulars , were no less adventurous . |
| 16 | The Brut blames the Despensers for this measure , but the king was able to raise almost 7,000 men who served for four weeks at their vills ' expense . |
| 17 | These included Thomas Attwood , a young English composer who took lessons with Mozart , an Irish tenor , Michael Kelly , who sang for four years at the imperial theatre , and became Mozart 's favourite billiards partner and drinking companion ; another composer , Stephen Storace , who had had two light operas produced in Vienna , and his sister Nancy ( Anna ) , who was principal soprano at the imperial theatre . |
| 18 | Widnes lie in third place , three points behind leaders Toft who beat Urmston by 22 runs and one point behind Didsbury who won by four wickets at Cheadle Hulme . |
| 19 | STEAD FIELD , Nevada , was the site of the 29th National Championship Air Races , which attracted more than 100 pilots who competed in four classes of air racing every day . |
| 20 | How many sides did you , you wrote like four sides . |
| 21 | She attended an excellent direct-grant grammar school ( which has since gone independent , much to Robyn 's disgust ) where she was Head Girl and Captain of Games and which she left with four A grades at A-Level . |
| 22 | Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A. |
| 23 | She stayed for four days and Carrie did the cooking at home . |
| 24 | She stood about four feet away from him in her ungainly dressing gown . |
| 25 | An inscribed silver salver was given to previous league secretary John Pritchard who retired after four seasons in the job . |
| 26 | It was a quality goal from Jim McFadden , who held off four defenders before firing home from the edge of the box . |
| 27 | Price alone shows the difference between today 's Subaru estate and the model we looked at four years ago . |
| 28 | The cathedral has five domes on drums , the central one supported on four piers . |
| 29 | When the 3 weeks were up and the Scraggs returned , we looked for other accommodation and found a flat in Riccarton , close to Hagley Park and only a mile from the city centre , and we liked it so much we stayed for four weeks having intended two . |
| 30 | Being a Silver Jubilee , passengers were serenaded by the Eccleston Silver Band as they rode behind four steam locomotives in a range of stock from our own home made coach to a Welsh coach from our No. 1 steam engine 's home of Llanberis to the diminutive but delightful Groudle Glen coach from the Isle of Man . |