Example sentences of "[verb] about four " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see his bright ginger head bobbing about four rows in front , and then his class all went off to the baths , and by the time he was back I was in triple needlework . |
| 2 | Davidson added that Somerset has about four cases to hear next week which means that Chilcott is left kicking his heels for another seven days . |
| 3 | We can assume that each Overseas Group has about four visitors per year . |
| 4 | Without water we would survive about four days , so in order of priority for life it 's number two after oxygen . |
| 5 | A large grey Volkswagen van was parked about four houses along the street . |
| 6 | Liz tops up with another vodka with lime and soda , followed by a can of Tennent 's Pilsner which contains about four units or 60mg of alcohol . |
| 7 | Yes what it say about four hundred ? |
| 8 | The Review usually contained about four articles ( seventy . |
| 9 | Originally the family owned the whole island , which holds about four farms , but those have all been sold off now , and there 's no land except the stretch from Otters ' Bay to the other end of the machair . |
| 10 | Geoff Dowling , race secretary and one-time competitor ( but unfortunately never winner ) , told me that five and a half hours was reasonable but the first-class walkers could be expected about four and a half hours after the start . |
| 11 | Rather than attempt in a short book a history of artistic developments at Rome from the early days on the Palatine to the rise of the Christian city , I have chosen to write about four important themes , which are briefly described in the introduction . |
| 12 | To the point where the tour had been cancelled about four times . |
| 13 | The tour had been cancelled about four times . |
| 14 | Well like sometimes I 'll say to him everybody gon na finish about four you know |
| 15 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 16 | The corpus relevant to BT numbers hundreds of separate items and fills about four hundred printed pages ; it is contained in fourteen different notebooks , written over a period of two years ( autumn 1869 to autumn 1871 ) . |
| 17 | And that meant in many cases , that the toilets were out in the garden and one toilet was serving about four houses . |
| 18 | The sea powers around the Mediterranean used bronze cannon which were much more elegant and probably more accurate but cost about four times as much . |
| 19 | Included in the System 7 operating system for the PowerPC will be a full emulation for Apple 68000 binaries — this will be faster than MC68040-based Macs that cost about four times as much . |
| 20 | No way , bloody hell , they cost about four hundred quid the paving stones |
| 21 | cost about four or five hundred . |
| 22 | I 'd done about four sitcoms one after the other , and I was n't getting much time to do theatre which I really wanted to do . |
| 23 | I should have done about four pages by now ! |
| 24 | Oh I 've done about four , but we were having trouble with he want 's some books he likes books , but wo n't give us a clue and |
| 25 | We were looking about four thousand pounds for for s for a thousand copies of the |
| 26 | But in those three advice centres er we receive er in round figures we receive about four hundred complaints and enquiries about shopping problems , every week , all the year round . |
| 27 | This occurs about four or five weeks after apparent recovery and results in all four legs suddenly swelling up tremendously and the development of small haemorrhagic spots on the lips . |
| 28 | The reaction between sweat , iodine , and starch could be seen about four to five minutes later as fine black dots corresponding to functioning sweat glands ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 29 | Sad to say he OD 'd about four years later … ’ |
| 30 | Yeah alright well I 'll probably only do about four so I do n't want to take all the cards . |