Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] four " in BNC.

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1 We have completed the first four parts in one day with groups of experienced trainees , though this makes for a very hard and long day .
2 Right as far as I 'm concerned we 've completed the first four points on the agenda right .
3 Cheshire , champions in 1990 and ‘ 91 , had halved the morning foursomes and shared the first four singles when Caldy 's Bailey claimed a 4 and 3 win over Neil Graham of Newcastle United .
4 Readers simply wanting to get the system working should disregard the next four paragraphs .
5 The two surviving second division clubs have been drawn together so either Meadowbank or Montrose will make the last four .
6 First of all , take a pat on the back for successfully completing the first four weeks of the diet .
7 Third place went to Johnnie Rea who was the only rider likely to catch King in the championship but even if Rea wins the next four rounds — both at Bishopscourt — King can not be caught .
8 How much , can be gauged from seeing the first four entries under " D " in the index : dactylic foot , Daily Mail , Darwin , Charles , and deconstruction .
9 But although Mansell has won the first four races this season , he 's trying not to be over-confident about making it five .
10 Australia have won the last four tournaments .
11 On New Year 's Eve we skip the next four years and go straight into 1977 .
12 Chris Broad looked set for a good knock as he crashed the first four of the day … but Gloucestershire then got themselves into trouble against the bowling of Gordon Harris …
13 In particular , we fixed the last four of those fuel tankers that have been awaiting gearbox spares .
14 The branch , run by Charlie Black , managed to secure the first four places , winning with the BP landscaping scheme at Dyce .
15 The degenerate octamer-TAATGANAT oligonucleotides A and C differ only at position 11 ( see Fig. 4A ) and compete equally well for binding to the labelled ICP4 sequence as the completely homologous TAATGARAT sequence B. The Ad2 degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motif oligonucleotide A , which contains the first four bases of the octamer fused to a perfect TAATGARAT motif , seems to be a stronger competitor than oligonucleotides B and C. In summary , the results displayed in Fig. 4B and C clearly show that the POU domain of pou[c] binds with high affinity to the TAATGARAT and degenerate octamer-TAATGAR motifs and with very low affinity ( only detectable after overexposure of GMSA signals ) to the canonical octamer motif .
16 Richards Shipbuilders has the first four Gem-class minesweepers under construction in its East Anglian yards at Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft .
17 Mr. Duggan said that he had enjoyed the last four years .
18 In consultation with Associate Producer Mervyn Pinfield , who would direct the first four episodes , Whitaker won an agreement that everything should be done to portray the Sensorites as timid , sympathetic creatures , leaving true villainy to the beast present , if mostly dormant , in the hearts of men .
19 ‘ But he 's birdied the first four of the second nine .
20 Nilsson added the fourth four minutes from time .
21 Graf dropped the last four games of the second set after serving for the match at 5–3 , but then powered past fifth-seeded Sabatini 6–2 5–7 6–1 .
22 The 80,000-square-foot space will house 300 engineers , simultaneously developing the first four PowerPC implementations combining IBM and Motorola technologies and manufacturing techniques .
23 Allen , who has missed the last four games , said : ‘ I must admit I was a little concerned and went to see the same specialist that did the operation on my groin before .
24 Their opponents tomorrow will be Spain , the second seeds , who overwhelmed the Soviet Union in the two singles matches to reach the last four .
25 GERMANY , another side to have ‘ employed ’ the technical know-how of a foreigner ( Emil Signes , the former coach and current manager of the US Eagles sevens side ) were equally unsuccessful in their bid to reach the last four .
26 On only three occasions since the club were formed in 1969 have they failed to reach the last four of the competition .
27 Dickinson was no stranger to success in the Gold Cup — he had trained the first two home , Silver Buck and Bregawn , in 1982 — but his feat in the 1983 contest is unique in big-race records , and to find anything remotely comparable you have to go back to 1822 , when James Croft 's four runners in the St Leger filled the first four places .
28 A longitudinal study of over 1,100 young people has been extended to cover the first four years in the labour market , from ages 16 to 20 years .
29 The approach route to the mountain was complicated by dense bamboo forest on the final climb up the Kusum Khola , hacking through thickets to cover the last four miles to the base camp at 4,000 metres .
30 Transfer to the Hotel Cataract in Aswan , where you will spend the next four nights .
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