Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 25 , 1991 , Mgr Marcel Lefebvre , the ultraconservative bishop who had been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic church in June 1988 for consecrating four followers as bishops [ see p. 36442 ] , died in Martigny , Switzerland at the age of 85 . |
| 2 | Western Legend , off the course all last season with leg problems after gaining four victories early in his chasing career , returned to top form last month when scoring unchallenged in an amateur riders ' chase at Wincanton . |
| 3 | Gesualdo , after publishing four books of not particularly individual madrigals in the Rore-Wert tradition ( 1594–6 ) , brought out two more in 1611 in which chromatic alteration simultaneously in several parts produces the most extraordinary effects of dislocation ( often alternating with very commonplace diatonic passages ) . |
| 4 | John had decided to dig a depth of nine feet , but after removing four feet of earth , the men hit a hard band of shale and a Kango breaker was hired to remove the remaining debris . |
| 5 | And afterwards the Kiwi stand-off , who earlier looked likely to be the villain after botching four shots at goal , admitted : ‘ The misses were playing on my mind . |
| 6 | After spending four days in Alberta , the Queen celebrated Canada Day on July 1 with a speech in French and English to a crowd of 100,000 in Ottawa , during which she expressed her " anxiety and deep concern " over the country 's constitutional problems . |
| 7 | The American is Donny Odom , 24 , who has competed in his country 's national championships twice after spending four seasons maturing on tracks in southern California . |
| 8 | After giving four breaths , check the pulse . |
| 9 | Willis had one of his inspired days and , after taking four wickets in the first innings , went one better this time , with 5 for 65 . |
| 10 | After dropping four World Cup points in three games , concluding with last week 's 2–0 defeat in Norway , and then the embarrassment of losing in Boston , Millichip suggested he had over-ruled last week 's vote of confidence by Peter Swales , chairman of the FA international committee . |
| 11 | Smith , 29 , was already serving a 30-year ban when he crashed after drinking four pints of lager , the court at Leicester was told . |
| 12 | The Darlington woman , who does not want to be named for fear of reprisals , launched her criticism after spotting four boys aged about ten pelting stones at ducks near South Park . |
| 13 | After unearthing four bricks , a milk bottle , and an unidentifiable piece of metal , it was possible to turn over a forkful of earth on that spot . |
| 14 | Big Bill A Labour peer has put forward 400 amendments to the Maastrich Treaty Bill to try and slow its progress through the Lords Star better : Coronation Street star Lynne Perrie , 62 , who plays Ivy Brennan , is improving in a Salford hospital after collapsing four days ago . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , United 's John Beresford returns against his former club Portsmouth tomorrow after missing four games through injury . |
| 16 | If he had no intention of using four foreigners , why did he have them among his sixteen ? |
| 17 | The move comes after an Antrim father and daughter were found guilty of keeping four pit bulls illegally . |
| 18 | He certainly survived and prospered , despite serving four monarchs with very different religious , and therefore iconographical , aims . |
| 19 | You 'd think something like three chances in a million of getting four aces . |
| 20 | So you 're saying the chances of getting four aces , provided you put it back each time and shuffled them again , would be sixteen out of fifty two . |
| 21 | The 149'ers , despite having four games scheduled in one week alone ( Graham Dennie 's usual organisation ) are showing great improvement on last year . |
| 22 | It was a day which saw the political demise of UDP man Ken Kerr and a poor showing for the Ulster Unionist party on the Waterside , where only group leader John Adams was re-elected , despite fielding four men . |
| 23 | Although Stranraer were in command from the start of the final , they were in danger of losing four shots and the match at the last end but a missed stone from the opposing skip handed them victory . |
| 24 | Last year 's Segni Law means that voters will state a single preference for a named candidate on the ballot paper for the Chamber of Deputies , instead of giving four numbers on a party list . |
| 25 | What will be the cost-effectiveness of having four subdivisions of a company ? |
| 26 | The three alternative methods of connecting four windings are shown in Fig. 1.4 . |
| 27 | But there are a lot of flaws : the idea of combining four generations involves weaving back and forth in time which works occasionally . |
| 28 | She half-remembered awakening around dawn , the light vague and grey against the heavy drapes , but she had no recollection of drinking four glasses … |
| 29 | With the prospect of putting four points between themselves and the chasing Leeds , United lost their tempers — and their lead . |
| 30 | I invented a means of preparing four dishes at once . |