Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stewart shared a third-wicket partnership of 179 with Robin Smith , one of four men who passed 90 in this match but failed to reach four figures |
| 2 | She woke to find four men by her bed , who beat and knifed her . |
| 3 | Mrs Bennet came to clean four times a week now , and another woman came for the washing , and Julia often wondered how she would have managed without them . |
| 4 | Well , he was talk we were talking about the rave and th what was wrong with it and he was saying basically it was they 'd got four DJs who were all techno and they were like brilliant ! |
| 5 | There was a moment of sudden realisation that we 'd spent four months raising this cash and we were not going to let it go that easily . |
| 6 | Harvey said ‘ Hello ’ four times , then suddenly he was talking to a bald-headed man who seemed to have four overcoats on at once . |
| 7 | Nicholas said , ‘ We 'd planted four mines , before we knew of the truce . |
| 8 | Tony and the therapist arranged to meet four times during the next month . |
| 9 | Hopper 's film , which he first began writing four years earlier , had now also become a touch dated but that was not the major problem . |
| 10 | A 4-megabit chip ought to sell for five times as much as a 1-megabit device , the price premium justified by the smaller space and lower power needed to provide four times the amount of memory . |
| 11 | It was in Calcutta last January on a pitch a blind man could tell was going to allow the spinners to turn the ball square , that Gooch decided to play four seamers . |
| 12 | But as they made their getaway the gang crashed into a lorry , and then panicked hijacking four cars at gunpoint , and opening fire on police . |
| 13 | Impressed with the performance of N185 , Air Ministry officials decided to order four Iris Mk 111s for RAF service . |
| 14 | ‘ He proceeded to spend four minutes telling me why I could n't have the job , and then said , ‘ I 'm sorry , my time is more or less up now ’ . |
| 15 | It was the day after Marie went missing four years ago . |
| 16 | But , but , he did win four tournaments , he did finish second to Norman on the money list , and he did end his season with a startlingly brilliant final round , an 8-under par 63 at the Champions course in Houston to give him third place in the rich Nabisco Championships . |
| 17 | However , he did win four CCs and six Reserve CCs and was to gain a Best of Breed placement at Crufts in 1980 . |
| 18 | We did lose four equity partners along the way and had to borrow £300,000 to repay their capital accounts , but , with a turnover of around £2m , we did not consider it a problem . ’ |
| 19 | If these non-compliant patients who failed to tolerate four weeks of elemental feeding are taken into account , then just 45% ( 10 of 22 ) patients originally randomised to receive four weeks of elemental diet achieved complete remission on diet alone . |
| 20 | The march began after several thousand people had filled four churches to overflowing in the centre of Leipzig , for a special service of ‘ prayers for peace ’ . |
| 21 | It was revealed on July 25 that Fuji Bank , the country 's fourth-largest commercial bank , had dismissed four employees at the centre of an illegal loans scheme using forged deposit certificates worth 260,000 million yen ( about $2,000 million ) . |
| 22 | Their punishment was that they were to walk bare foot behind the procession on the following Sunday , but instead of one taper they had to carry four tapers ( value 2d ) and there they should offer two at the High Altar , and two at the Altar of St. John . |
| 23 | The daughter of an Indian labourer , Mrs Swami was deserted by her husband and had to support four children on her own . |
| 24 | I had to wait four days before I could risk flying her again . |
| 25 | His first Grand Prix was the 1951 Swiss when he was in a British HWM but he had to wait four years for his first success . |
| 26 | Residents had to wait four years to elect their council after receiving that bill . |
| 27 | Moldova 's parliament approved the new " government of national accord " , said to include four portfolios for Dnestr representatives , between July 29 and Aug. 4 . |
| 28 | Experienced planners could do this job in three or four hours — we had to arrange four meetings each lasting three and a half hours and they still only just got it done . |
| 29 | In another broadcast the radio station claimed that on Sept. 14 a group of 30 monks had attacked four soldiers travelling to hospital in Mandalay . |
| 30 | Another runner to attract support was Run And Skip , who had won four races that season — including the Coral Welsh National at Chepstow — and come second in the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup . |