Example sentences of "four [noun pl] [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean we have n't had flowers in the house for four months and you never suggested before that I do it ? ’ |
| 2 | She only worked at Pembroke Lodge for four weeks and I hardly set eyes on her . |
| 3 | And it 's quite true , I was there about four years and they always took stock before January the first , so that after Christmas came an anomaly , we 'd had a Christmas holiday and gone back to work . |
| 4 | Yes I , after I lost my daughter I had to go into erm , into the factory to make aeroplane pieces at Burnt Mill cos I was so bad with my nerves after I lost her , er just afternoons I had to go and then I was taken ill I could n't do it , well then after my erm , I got my family off to school I took a part time job in erm one of the factories making tea in the mornings for the office and coffees and that for the office and then in the afternoons I used to do the tea as well , I used to cycle there , I quite enjoyed it until my right hip started coming bad then I had to pack it in , but I was in there , I was there for about four years and I thoroughly enjoyed it you know making tea and that , I did n't have to take it round only collect the money to go round and collect the money , but used to have to put the trolley outside and they used to come and get their tea each one , of which they knew which was their mugs and cups ha , you know , I , I thoroughly enjoyed that job , really great |
| 5 | so there 's a lot of scope , by , in other words , if you take a multiple , if you did , if you know four closes and you only use two , you might get away with it |