Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] four " in BNC.
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| 1 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 2 | Pauline Golightly , 24 , of Vernon Gardens , Harrowgate Hill , says that since she moved into the house last October her Nissan Sunny has been vandalised four times . |
| 3 | The American , considered one of the most sympathetic of riders , has been penalised four times for careless riding since arriving here in 1979 . |
| 4 | A much sought-after right-winger , Cooper has been transferred four times . |
| 5 | The first of these aid and trade agreements was signed in 1975 and has been renewed four times . |
| 6 | It 's being tested at Blackthorn railway bridge near Bicestesr , which has been hit four times in the past year . |
| 7 | This may not seem to be a very daunting task , but when a man who has been flying four engine jet transports all over the world is suddenly confronted with a young pilot who has just written-off the landing gear of a light aircraft while trying to land in a cross wind , the true qualities of the new inspector are under test . |
| 8 | A farmer has been using four oxen to plough a field in what 's believed to be the first public demonstration of the skill in almost twenty-five years . |
| 9 | Now the angry owner , whose home has been burgled four times this year , is offering a £500 reward for information . |
| 10 | Thailand 's Professor Pilai Poonswad , who for 10 years has been studying four species of forest hornbills , pointed out that the birds nest in large Dipterocarps and that their taste in trees was something they shared with loggers . |
| 11 | Every word in it has been typed four times ( once by our Paris correspondent , once by the French telex operator , once by a typist in our office , and finally by the Linotype operator at Index Printers ) . |
| 12 | Severe acute hepatitis immediately after intravenous amiodarone has been reported four times . |
| 13 | An innovation has been to introduce four kings , representing the four corners of the earth , who come to woo Epine and win the kingdom she has seized , are entranced by Rose but rejected by her because the North is uncouth , the East too vain , the West too cynical and the South too violent . |
| 14 | A LONELY bachelor who died in his bath has been found four years later . |
| 15 | This business in Henley has been targeted four times . |
| 16 | All you need to do is find four people , nominate a team leader , give your team a name , and register by sending the above information and a £20 cheque to The Training Trust , Financial and Legal Sector , 145 Great Charles Street , Birmingham B3 3JR by 4 December . |
| 17 | The British tranche was none the less fully subscribed , but shares on sale in Europe were oversubscribed and those offered in New York could have been sold four times over . |
| 18 | They had been tossed four feet away . |
| 19 | She had been served four years of a life sentence for the murder of her baby son . |
| 20 | For Ruth had been married to Connor 's brother Sean , and her first child — a fine boy called Danny — had been born four years ago . |
| 21 | Containing such things as ‘ Liquidi perle ’ , ‘ Tirsi morir volea ’ , and ‘ Dolorosi martir ’ , it is no wonder that by 1588 it had been reprinted four times and that in the same year five of the madrigals — with ‘ Io partirò ’ from the Second Book — were published in London with English words . |
| 22 | And as the Chief Officer , Edwin Kerr , told a conference on teacher education in 1976 , ‘ if a meeting on teacher education had been held four years ago , the Council would not have been invited to attend ’ . |
| 23 | We had been divided four to a room , with a Corporal in each and with the different nationalities split so that no nationalistic factions developed . |
| 24 | Working in the very competitive insurance industry , principally at Lloyd 's , he had been approached four times by four different headhunting firms , only one of whose names he remembered ( one of the smaller UK-based consultancies ) . |
| 25 | The first had arrived ten days before , and the second had been delivered four days before . |
| 26 | Hinting at his two-year prison term on assault and weapons convictions , Brown said , ‘ With all the success I 've had , I 've been broke four times because of ignorance . |
| 27 | He turns more fruitfully to plays , becomes writer in residence at the Royal Court , adapts Brecht for the RSC and Kafka for Radio 3 , turns out two screenplays which Stephen Frears films , is nominated for an Oscar for one of them , and finally succeeds , in his mid-thirties , in getting a novel published ( its adolescent predecessors have been burnt four years earlier ) . |