Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for four " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 2 | In February 1952 , The Musical Express bade farewell to its readers with a final issue that blazed proudly on its cover ‘ Tommy Dorsey For Olympic Games ’ , the accompanying story telling of how bandleader Dorsey and his orchestra had been booked to play for four hours daily at the games in Finland that summer . |
| 3 | For the third time this greatest of Scottish Protestant heroes , whose name has lived for four centuries as the architect of Scottish religious life ( not to say the strict bleakness of that life ) , whose statue in Edinburgh gazed balefully down on the meeting between pope and moderator of the General Assembly of the Kirk in 1982 , and whose inordinately lofty statue in the Glasgow Necropolis lours at patients in the upper stories of the Royal Infirmary , made a strenuous effort not to return to his native country at all . |
| 4 | He has studied for four years at the Beda College in Rome . |
| 5 | This year they 're going to go for four thousand . |
| 6 | A student theatre has had to close for four months because of the risk of fire . |
| 7 | The inquiry , expected to last for four days , continues . |
| 8 | Publishers are also being invited to pay for four or five copies of a magazine to be lined up against each other along a shelf , so the title appears to be a fast seller — a common US practice . |
| 9 | yeah that only got to count for four , that 's gon na go one , two , three , four |
| 10 | PHONE bills are set to fall for four years in a row from next August , it was announced yesterday . |
| 11 | They then return to their bureau to start interviewing for four weeks . |
| 12 | And I was very sad to face the fact that , having hoped for four years , I might now never have a second child . |
| 13 | Otherwise that person having worked for four different employers during the forty years will not retire on two-thirds of final salary , but will retire on two-thirds er only perhaps the last employer for the last ten years . |
| 14 | David Peter Bicker , aged three , went missing for four hours in Cononley , near Skipton , North Yorkshire , during a family visit to friends but police aided by the force helicopter and around 100 villagers who undertook a detailed search found the youngster safe and well at around 9pm . |
| 15 | Erm I mean as it is I I can get photocopying for four P a sheet getting fifty at a time , and that give I get a receipt for that which is better than three P a sheet without a receipt . |
| 16 | Once removed from the courte bouillon , the fillets are left to rest for four minutes . |
| 17 | In his view it was disgusting that the union had been forced to battle for four years to win the day . |
| 18 | Her husband Alex , 45 , who was left to care for four children aged four to 17 , said after the verdict : ‘ He is a lucky man . |
| 19 | After the concert she had to wait for four minutes before McCartney could rejoin her … while he accepted a standing ovation . |
| 20 | They also pointed to an incident during which a patient had to wait for four hours for an anaesthetist . |
| 21 | Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques . |
| 22 | Seth 's van , which he had owned for four days , was a write-off . |
| 23 | Any other woman would have been spitting angry at being kept waiting for four and a half hours . |
| 24 | They were kept waiting for four hours before being given clearance to cover the Match of The Century ( starring Paul Gascoigne ) . |
| 25 | She had walked for four days , and lost one of her younger children on the way . |
| 26 | I managed to stop drinking for four months : I kept a bottle in the house but I never touched it . |
| 27 | The Committee made no reference to complaints from Members , although the IBA survey showed that the percentage of MPs who found the Chamber too hot rose from 9 before the experiment to 36 after it had run for four months . |
| 28 | And er at the moment you 've asked for four per cent . |
| 29 | In ninety two , three by point six seven and in the budget we propose tonight we 've asked for four point five five million . |
| 30 | That I wanted to come from school but they would n't all ow me to come from school because me father had signed for four years you see . |