Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for four " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've done very well cos there 's four we 've got five questions and we were only asked for four . |
| 2 | Nature , produced by Robin Hellier , has a lot of pace as did Horizon 's The Geneva event ( BBC2 , 24 January ) What the latter did not have was much patience with the aspirant but relatively unlearned student of what is going on in the world of high energy physics The main Geneva event — the identification of the W subatomic particle which , with the Z , will enable the theory that the four fundamental forces of nature can be unified within a single framework to be sustained — has yet to be announced , though it is believed imminent Horizon had been patiently filming for four years . |
| 3 | He had not moved for four , maybe five , hours . |
| 4 | And we did not stop for four days , discussing every detail , going over every bit of ground . |
| 5 | If comparatively few needles are tucking , you can easily tuck for four rows with a suitable yarn . |
| 6 | Only the second ball of the over was not hit for four . |
| 7 | Adding life peers to the calculation inevitably reduces the Etonian proportion , but Eton still accounted for four hundred out of a total 1,156 , over one quarter of the entire chamber . |
| 8 | They usually run for four to 12 weeks with one to six sessions a week . |
| 9 | The other club to fall foul of the disciplinary committee yesterday was St Helens , who travel to Wakefield tomorrow without Roy Haggerty and Stuart Evans , both banned for four matches . |
| 10 | Once again , the same format as the previous two samples , but needles are now tucking for four rows before knitting for four rows . |
| 11 | Last night the company said it was now looking for four full-time and one part-time person . |
| 12 | The coaching committee in fact , had originally settled for four boxers but then included a fifth and Crowley then got in as a result of tremendous pressure from the body of the floor . |
| 13 | Krabbe and her team mates Silke Moeller and Grit Breuer were originally banned for four years by the German Athletics Federation ( DLV ) in February for manipulating doping samples . |
| 14 | That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones . |
| 15 | No one else in Britain would bury her either , and her relatives reportedly tried for four years to find a country which would offer her a resting place . |
| 16 | The family of a woman who died from cancer are claiming that she was n't fed for four days while she was in hospital . |
| 17 | That we would wait for our mother to come home from work with ‘ Lucky Packets ’ full of sherbet , that most of our childhood had been outdoors and here we were inside , with our dad home again , our dad who we had n't seen for four years , here we were having crossed the equator with nine suitcases , where flying fish leapt from the sea , to be in this place . |
| 18 | He did n't work for four months . |
| 19 | so we devised a Mode 3 CSE which was continuously assessed for four terms … |
| 20 | ‘ I came across families who had n't eaten for four days . |
| 21 | I said and before you start that the caravan ca n't go for four years , on this tape . |
| 22 | He was staying up for four or five days at a time and then crashing for four or five days . |
| 23 | He opened in London in 1898 in The Three Musketeers , and then toured for four years , adding fifty new parts to the first thirty . |
| 24 | The tank was then left for four days on the assumption that the fry would be free-swimming in five days . |
| 25 | The Test has been delicately poised for four days , with fortunes swinging wildly . |
| 26 | Stewart/Ranson therefore argue for four related developments to allow for greater popular participation . |
| 27 | Boli — Boom Boom to Marseille fans — was recently banned for four games after a fearsome tackle on Monaco 's Jurgen Klinsmann and goes into the European Cup tie talking more like a boxer than a footballer . |
| 28 | will , will your take actually increase for four hundred ? |