Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] four [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During five weeks in Greece I met four other walkers , all British , two of them women . |
| 2 | I tried four different combos , three power amps and DI'ed straight into a mixer through studio reference speakers , a pair of cheapo ghetto blasters and some ordinary domestic hi-fi speakers . |
| 3 | Here , I used four different designs as they add interest , but they could easily have been four matching designs . |
| 4 | One afternoon while I was in the USA , I received four obscene telephone calls . |
| 5 | I poured four more mugs of tea . |
| 6 | Following the frosts this year I retrieved four dead frogs and one dead Orfe from the pond . |
| 7 | He warned MacLachlan , who recorded : ‘ Just as I took my place in the circle I saw four more Messerschmitts coming down out of the sun . |
| 8 | then I had four hundred pounds you do n't seem to get My life like |
| 9 | I had four principal sources of help — my memory ( from c.1966 ) , the Club 's records , ‘ old ’ members ' tales , and reports in the Henley Standard . |
| 10 | I thought I 'd make this week , I had four last week . |
| 11 | He ended up breaking my nose , I had four broken ribs , a broken arm and my shoulder was dislocated . |
| 12 | Ten years ago I had four dependent relatives , I took both my parents and parents-in-law into the one house the fathers are now both dead , and I still have both the mothers . |
| 13 | ‘ My suggestion was derided , ’ he recorded , ‘ and McKenna most helpfully asked me if I wanted four Prime Ministers , or , if not , which one I wanted . ’ |
| 14 | Eventually , in 1977 , a Green Paper was published which identified four major topics for consideration : the school curriculum , assessment and standards , the education and training of teachers and the relationship between school and working life . |
| 15 | Just three of the 16-strong team — which included four outside contractors — were allowed in the room when the Queen actually recorded her speech . |
| 16 | A band led a procession , which included four hundred schoolchildren , through the streets and a public lunch was held on East Looe Quay . |
| 17 | The clothes were agitated by hand , using a wooden dolly , which had four short legs and a long handle . |
| 18 | She made four big pies , and with the trimmed-off pastry designed some crude Picasso doves as decoration for the tops . |
| 19 | She spooned four heaped spoonfuls of sugar into it and some condensed milk and sat at the kitchen table . |
| 20 | North-East heavy metal band who scored four minor hits in the early Eighties and built up a following on the live circuit . |
| 21 | For example if you spent four thousand pounds on the hardware , then you could well spend fifteen hundred or two thousand pounds on the software . |
| 22 | A man who spent four heady years as an undergraduate was often advised to go to another place to train for the ministry . |
| 23 | Last night 's rich pickings followed hot on the heels of her big night in Brussels last Friday when she won four gold bars for victories in Olso , Zurich , Berlin and of course Brussels … now she sets her sights on tomorrow 's Princess Street Mile in Edinburgh where the winner receives a car . |
| 24 | She used her feet , dancing away and flying back , anchoring herself to the broken lamp-post as she launched four rapid kicks to the Daughter 's torso . |
| 25 | So , you went , you gained four hundred miles an hour |
| 26 | We were taken to the chief who instructed four young boys to show us the path up to the top . |
| 27 | With them walked four thin men in rich-coloured rags . |
| 28 | He wanted to do a Beatle medley and for that we made four cut-out caricatures of The Beatles in hardboard and painted them and then fitted them on frames and easels so that they could be stood up and moved around . |
| 29 | We have been working on finishing and we got four fine goals . ’ |
| 30 | We identified four essential dimensions of such collaborations , which we — and subsequently others — termed TTT ( teachers teaching together ) : purposes , participants , collaborative style and pupil organization . |