Example sentences of "[vb past] the four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor , since he lacked the four generations of noble blood required for a commission in the French navy , was he offered the command of a French ship . |
| 2 | In the morning the two sides shared the four Foursomes matches but therein hides a tale of powerful enough to displace Neighbours at the top of the TV ratings . |
| 3 | The gait of the creatures that made the four sets of trails has been described in detail , two weeks ago , at a conference in Berkeley , California . |
| 4 | As we rode the four miles to Wuthering Heights , he kept asking me questions about his new home , and the father he had never seen . |
| 5 | She must 've left her statement , walked over to her car and she checked the car before she checked the four kids . |
| 6 | In last night 's British quarter-final at Middlesbrough , Coventry 's Paul Bentley led the four qualifiers with 14 points . |
| 7 | In his opening address on 29 September the pope rejected the notion , common since Vatican I , that the authority of the pontiff alone was sufficient to govern the Church , and listed the four aims of the Council : that the Church should have a clearer idea of its own nature ; that there was need for renewal ; that Christians of all denominations be brought closer together ( he apologized for the Catholic Church 's own failings in its relations with non-Catholics ) ; and finally , the need for dialogue between Church and world . |
| 8 | Layton described the four things which stand out in Leonard , which give him the confidence to work as he does , and promote his work : The strong tradition of learning ; the business entrepreneurship of his family ; the broad philanthropy/charity which hall-marked it ; and , lastly , the self-awareness that comes from being a Cohen — not understood as class-distinction , but from the high symbolism of ‘ the priest and his role . ’ |
| 9 | His Anatomical and Mechanical Lectures on Dancing ( 1723 ) described the four movements ‘ of which the body is capable ’ , namely : to bend , to stretch , to rise or raise , to rotate or turn . |
| 10 | He also described the four types of professional dancer whom he used in his ballets . |
| 11 | The four artistes that appeared in this not unnaturally attracted a large and appreciative audience , among them officers from the local police force who subsequently charged the four ladies with ‘ over exposure ’ . |
| 12 | Following the evident success of No. 16 , 1–15 were sent away in turn to Hendon and similarly treated , except that they retained the four window arrangement and classification ‘ Type J ’ . |
| 13 | The Seven Points to Remember were revised so that they mentioned the four types of diarrhoea ( previously described ) and stated that all four types should be treated with LGS . |
| 14 | After a hearing lasting five days the Board of Review allowed the appeal and referred the four assessments back to the commissioner for revision . |
| 15 | In later years he visited the four dominions , for each of which he established a graduate studentship ; and Melbourne and New Zealand followed St Andrews in conferring honorary degrees . |
| 16 | She plunged happily into the familiar noise and chaos of a house with three boys and unpacked the four plastic shopping bags that contained the gifts she had brought . |
| 17 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
| 18 | Wright never deserved the four goals he got — he never did anything to get the ball but let it come to him and losing out a few times in the process when the defender took the ball away . |
| 19 | The next day Mr Foggerty told the four boys to meet him at the Town baths after school . |
| 20 | When he gave me a copy of his complete works in September of 1943 inscribed from a ‘ sincere friend ’ , I noted the four lines opposite the title page : |
| 21 | At three o'clock he drove the four miles to Rose Brady 's house . |
| 22 | They came to the house on horseback , by car , by bicycle , by farm-cart ; but most of them followed the hearse on foot ; close friends filled the four cabs . |
| 23 | Visitors were able to see the versatility of design and product range by a display which portrayed the four themes of shipping , hotel and leisure , pubs and commercial interiors . |
| 24 | The trouble , on the last day 's play , allowed the four pundits to exercise their judgment and sense of fair play . |
| 25 | The delay gave Uncle Fred breathing space , so he packed a few things , walked the four miles into Salisbury , caught the train to Portsmouth and joined the Marines . |
| 26 | I walked the four miles home to the forge , thinking about all I had seen . |
| 27 | Yesterday afternoon was misty and bitterly cold , but I walked the four miles to Wuthering Heights and arrived just as it was beginning to snow . |
| 28 | Greetings became elaborate as the leader indicated the four glasses in front of each of us . |
| 29 | In a separate development , BR yesterday contacted the four rail unions asking for urgent talks on a review of pay and working practices in its signalling and telecommunications division . |
| 30 | But Daum coolly , cynically and calculatingly named the four foreigners in his squad from the start . |