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

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1 At their height , and they lasted four days , 10,000 troops were called out .
2 His 25-year-old wife Cornelia was born in Geneva , Switzerland , and they had four sons under five years old , all born at Wolverton .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 ,
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