Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] four [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And I remember four stone steps led up to the front door , and we 'd what they called a parlour then .
2 Yeah , and I got four Rottweilers .
3 I put a couple of quid in and I got four pounds something cos er went and bought some fags out of the machine and then I got the er the brown note flashing , from ten P so I stopped I have stopped .
4 He said : ‘ I play basketball twice a week and I had four days ’ notice that I was to get my chance , so I had four days ' practice .
5 I was walking across from suddenly being squashed under one and I had four guys in the car and they were all giving me defence .
6 Her eyes mist over as she says : ‘ Kurt and I have four children between us .
7 We went with Traffens one year , the first year in fact we went with Traffens and that was super because when we got to the other side sort of , it was then about ten o'clock he said well if you if there 's enough people want it we will transform your transform your seats into bunks and most people wanted and you were able to push the seats so one , two pairs of seats one of the seats went up and the other went down and you had four bunks
8 So you , off you go and you make your fifty calls , and you make four contacts .
9 But I mean er you can get cassette based ones which are quite cheap and cheap to run cos you just use , you know , good quality metal tapes and you get four tracks I think they even make a six track one now , or an eight track .
10 And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know .
11 At that particular time , er , quite right , faced with the failing national economy , and it 's got worse than it was then , and an increase in poverty in , this controlling group produced its plan for 1990 ninety one and in it 's redirection packages which are now part of our agenda on Council we d we made to pledges , one was to change the nature of Council and the other was to redirect sources on the process of need and we put four point three million on redirection in the first year , four point seven the second year .
12 We have a wide network of hack routes and we have four teachers .
13 And we have four weeks ' holiday at August .
14 The registers of Haymo de Hythe , record many items among them that of adultery which was severely dealt with and we find four couples named here in 1347 .
15 At their height , and they lasted four days , 10,000 troops were called out .
16 His 25-year-old wife Cornelia was born in Geneva , Switzerland , and they had four sons under five years old , all born at Wolverton .
17 On 8 July 1875 he married Mary Simson , daughter of John Somerville Johnston of Crailing Hall , Jedburgh , and they had four sons and one daughter .
18 And then after that erm I did er an eight day trek erm which was in the Anapurna region of the Himalayas and that again was sleeping in tents and we had sherpas , porters , to carry all our luggage apart from things like water that we carried in our day sacks and they carried four bags each on their backs and my bag weighed about thirty pounds .
19 In actual fact your Pete and Margaret have moved more , in the twelve years that they were married , I know they 've been married longer now , but when , th they been married twelve years and they moved four times ,
20 But suddenly everything clicked and he had four birdies in a row from the eleventh .
21 He had his own gun and he killed four men and two women , shot people for looking at him , never mind saying anything , shot them like on television , with no blood , no noise and no justice .
22 For two weeks after the spine operation , Michael was again on a bed that could be turned , so that his spine was completely immobilised , and he spent four hours on his back and two on his front .
23 And he has four daughters with the gift of prophecy : doubtless they engaged in the mission too .
24 and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you
25 I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith .
26 And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins .
27 Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor .
28 He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance .
29 You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it .
30 We got about twenty panels at work and on the panel there 's a little plastic thing stuck on and it needs four keys and one .
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