Example sentences of "[vb past] about four " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sad to say he OD 'd about four years later … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Generally , everything happened about four to six weeks after I wanted it to . ’ |
| 4 | well , Mark said it was , Mark er guessed about four hundred . |
| 5 | ‘ We met about four years ago . |
| 6 | His name was Mr Frankland , and he lived about four miles to the south of the Hall . |
| 7 | Got it all in their living room they got about four bloody great boxes full of bread rolls ! |
| 8 | ‘ The fact I managed to get away was mainly due to another local man , Mark Powell , of Linthorpe , who died about four years ago . ’ |
| 9 | The last time she and Arnie had eaten out they 'd gone to the local curry house where they went about four times a year . |
| 10 | All this took about four minutes . |
| 11 | Er I do n't know if you 've experience of steel but when you feel the handles of a , a lathe first thing in a morning it 's like lifting pieces of ice and er the heating arrangement took about four hours before it built up you know , to a reasonable working degree . |
| 12 | took about four of them to do it normally , Paul |
| 13 | Now education has of that thirty nine million the Education Department benefited by about eighteen million , and we took , I think it was erm four million out yesterday , we will be back to a net gain of fourteen million on education and social services have benefited since eighty five by about to the tune of nine million and or eight point six million , and we took about four hundred thousand out of that yesterday . |
| 14 | Erm my history in the police is that I 've got eighteen years ' police servicing , started at Newark which is n't too far away from here , did about four years there and I was a village policeman at Alderton for about a year of that time . |
| 15 | His Mum had about four flasks she kept on top of the fridge . |
| 16 | I had about four separate answers ready for this one , but they all failed me . |
| 17 | Which meant you come home from your double er shift , went to your bed , had about four hours sleep and were back out for your normal shift again . |
| 18 | I had about four hours to spend looking around Ipswich which was plenty of time as Ipswich is quite a small town . |
| 19 | In later years he rose to the position of shipping manager and had about four small steamers and a score of sailing barges to supervise . |
| 20 | Well while you had an apprenticeship you had about four years . |
| 21 | I mean he had about four or five different shirts there . |
| 22 | I had a beauty I had a run there I had about four in a row which came out whole , but now I 'm getting crushed nuts |
| 23 | One survivor told me that her apprenticeship lasted about four years and that that was normal at the time ( she started work in 1909 at 15 after an unsuccessful start in dressmaking ) . |
| 24 | Yeah , he could n't be bothered to play rugby at the beginning , I mean nobody missed about four weeks . |
| 25 | After three years of more or less benevolent autocracy , Valery Gergiev is happy with the facts about his Kirov company : the fact that for the 1989–90 season , very much against the malingering influence of Leningrad 's cultural bureaucrats and an army of silently disapproving critics , he headed straight for uncut Mussorgsky ( original Boris , Shostakovich- orchestrated Khovanshchina , Sorochinsky Fair , The Marriage , Salammbô ) ; and the fact that the following year , with the situation in newly-renamed St Petersburg worsening day by day , he set about four Prokofiev operas within a matter of months . |
| 26 | It was larger than Dalgliesh had expected , but poorly lit from a single round window with pivoting opaque glass set about four feet from the floor . |
| 27 | The brochure is published , printed and published about four months into the building , is that right or not ? |