Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sunday a raid by about 100 agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco and Firearms erupted in gun battles that killed four police and two cult followers , one reportedly Koresh 's two-year-old daughter . |
| 2 | Editor , — A T C Chan and M E R O'Brien describe episodes of bronchospasm and urticaria that developed four days after treatment with oral dexamethasone in a patient with pleural and liver metastases . |
| 3 | TransTools ' latest product is MultiBase , an applications development tool for relational databases that took four years to develop . |
| 4 | Players from almost every Premier League club were involved in a shoot that took four days and cost £400,000 . |
| 5 | It was shame that crippled four lives . ’ |
| 6 | The victim was confronted by a group of youths and stabbed four times as he walked home at Bletchley in Milton Keynes . |
| 7 | The Delft Cycle Plan of 1979 recognised the deteriorating conditions for many cycle trips within the city and designated four criteria for plan development : quality of facilities , quantity of provision , continuity of the network and comfort in its use . |
| 8 | Gionesca wore a bedsheet and a necklace of rabbit-bones , and led four pall-bearers carrying a plastic carton containing a Marlboro butt . |
| 9 | Like so much else in these cantos , the last line is midleading , since it suggests it was by an edict of Henry III that the Magna Charta was sent to all cathedrals and read four times a year , whereas Coke 's Institutes make it clear that this was on the contrary an enactment of Edward I. ‘ Selinunte ’ and ‘ Akragas ’ ( the old name of Agrigento ) are ancient Greek cities in Sicily . |
| 10 | The computer did most of the hard work and produced four circles with radii 4,781 4,647 , 4,718 and 4,685 metres . |
| 11 | The Coopers & Lybrand study identified and analysed four stages in acquiring a company : |
| 12 | Barnsley managed to raise £31 , sent two petitions , and approached four schools about the Children 's Postcard Art Competition . |
| 13 | Then the ‘ Observer ’ correspondent rose and fired four questions rapidly at his most sensitive spot — his attitude to black majority rule . |
| 14 | Whereas Indian , Malay , Arab and Chinese merchants had by and large traded peacefully for the exotic treasures of the islands since before the time of Christ , the marauding European buccaneers sought to own and control the real estate itself , and began four centuries of infighting . |
| 15 | Bill and Rita had always wanted a Victorian house — they used to live in a 1930s semi and spent four years trying to make it look Victorian . |
| 16 | Police broke down a door at the back of the house and ordered four people inside to leave with their hands on their heads . |
| 17 | Two years ago today , an Israeli lorry driver ran over and killed four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip . |
| 18 | On Nov. 15 , police shot and killed four people during a demonstration by industrial workers . |
| 19 | In six days of deliberations , the jury found four of the accused guilty of riot on April 1 , 1990 , and acquitted four others . |
| 20 | It was her first visit to a city and she was taken aback by the volume of traffic — ‘ I had heard about this kind of thing , but it 's quite frightening close to like this , ’ she said , as she stood on the pavement in City Square and watched four lanes of vehicles jousting strenuously for position . |
| 21 | ‘ I was in the eighth class in Moyne , ’ he said and named four boys in the same class . |
| 22 | PC Holt was hit in the face with a hammer and needed four hours surgery after breaking up a fight in the Royal Well area of the town . |
| 23 | They did not want to pull another track from the album for their next single and recorded four brand new ones with ‘ Nobody 's Twisting Your Arm ’ as the key song . |
| 24 | Set the back carriage to knit and knit four rows . |
| 25 | They said the protesters let off stink bombs and covered four players with eggs and flour . |
| 26 | A BURGLAR broke his ankles when he leapt out of what he thought was a first-floor window at Bristol — and fell four storeys . |
| 27 | A BURGLAR broke his ankles when he leapt out of what he thought was a first-floor window at Bristol — and fell four storeys . |
| 28 | It stood twenty-five spans high and took four horses to pull it . |
| 29 | ‘ I had just one fish from the swim the week before but this time had five botes and took four fish , ’ said David . |
| 30 | Next season , when he made his sole first-class century ( 101 against WA at Perth ) , he played in the second Test against South Africa , at Melbourne , and took four wickets . |