Example sentences of "[prep] the four [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 2 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 3 | No one , indeed , could have been more easy-going ; but we never got on close terms or found much in common during the four months we had been together since leaving England . |
| 4 | The interior of Mr Broadhurst 's caravan had remained unchanged during the four years it had been sited at Cliff Top . |
| 5 | During the four days we spent on Elgon we saw no other people and only one solitary gazelle . |
| 6 | It 's at this point nearing the end of my open study I 've realised a connection between the four characters I have just compared . |
| 7 | Of the four lecturers I interviewed , three could be broadly described as ‘ traditional ’ in their views , while one might be described as having a ‘ radical ’ viewpoint in so far as she challenged the conventional wisdom of English studies . |
| 8 | Of the four biographies he published in the 1930s , Frank Harris ( 1932 ) was a witty and ironic exercise in demythology , identifying his one-time literary hero as an inverted puritan ‘ with a heart of borrowed gold ’ ; and his Samuel Johnson ( 1933 ) a succinct and humane study of ‘ an intensely loving and compassionate soul handicapped in its expression by lifelong disabilities of mind and body ’ . |
| 9 | Then he remembered the eager questioning eyes of the four women he had met that evening — it would hardly be suitable for them . |
| 10 | In at least three of the four cases it is the notion of ‘ gender role ’ that ultimately underpins the explanation . |
| 11 | By switching from concentration on a few ‘ proof texts ’ in evangelism to a more balanced and comprehensive approach adopted by one of the four Gospels we might see better short and long-term results in our evangelism . |
| 12 | His concern is with the impact of technical change on two of the four factors we previously identified as potential sources of job satisfaction , namely social relations at work and the exercise of skill and knowledge . |
| 13 | At £299 , the Microfilm fx is the dearest of the four modems I looked at . |
| 14 | Yet , as it happened , he was registering well above par that evening , for three of the four ideas he had formulated were finally to prove wholly correct . |
| 15 | Of the four issues I have been listening to , which could hardly be more different from one another in approach , none is without distinction , none without its own appeal . |
| 16 | You will then need to drill a hole in each of the four corners , about 13mm ( ½in ) in from each side , using a drill bit that is slightly larger than the diameter of the four bolts you intend to use . |
| 17 | The practice of blood-letting , associated with the Galenic theory that disease arose from an imbalance of the four humors. he duly rejected in favor of specific chemical remedies . |
| 18 | While the first of the four examples we have quoted seems relatively trivial , the final two have more significance . |
| 19 | From the four Gospels we can see the extent to which our Lord invested his time in people . |
| 20 | Her successes include winning the 1987 Gosforth Junior Open , the 1988 Tyneside G.C. Girls ' title and selection for the Durham County girls ' team for whom she had a 100 per cent record in the four matches she played . |
| 21 | In the four years they had been separated , she had seen her husband only twice , and both times had been quite by chance . |
| 22 | Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it . |
| 23 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 24 | Yet in The Four Temperaments he revealed very clearly and subtly how four very different types of person react to the mood suggested by Hindemith 's music , whilst using his particular style of classical dance ( see page 54 ) . |
| 25 | We had changed a lot over the four years we 'd been together . |
| 26 | The botanical gardens are bare and there are few signs of the famous flower festival exhibitions in the cold grey wet transition between winter and spring : on the four days I was there it rained every day , finally removing the last traces of soot-encrusted snow from the pavements but leaving everything streaked with a post-winter dampness . |