Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hamlyn operated for four hours on the man who remained in intensive care . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It rated about four paragraphs . |
| 4 | Erm how many men would we need if we wanted it built in four hours . |
| 5 | Forth nine per cent of these relaxations occurred within four seconds after the onset of distention . |
| 6 | Rather , it occurred in four dimensions : the three to which we are accustomed , plus time . |
| 7 | Between 1881 and 1891 the most rapid population growth in England occurred in four London suburbs : Leyton ( 133·3 per cent ) , Willesden ( 121·9 per cent ) , Tottenham ( 95·1 per cent ) and West Ham ( 58·9 per cent ) . |
| 8 | Haemorrhage directly related to heater probe treatment occurred in four patients . |
| 9 | Ileoanal stenosis occurred in four patients with definite Crohn 's disease ( 40% ) compared with four with indeterminate colitis ( 40% ) , and 13 with ulcerative colitis ( 21% ) ; these differences were not statistically significant . |
| 10 | On 6 March 1992 more than 35 agents of the Mobile Military Police cordoned off four blocks of Guatemala City and violently rounded up the street children , handcuffing and beating them before dumping them in a van and taking them to the 2nd precinct police station . |
| 11 | Frankl himself came through four concentration camps with an unimpaired , nay an enhanced , mentality . |
| 12 | Well , my first job came during four weeks of my last term at RADA when I had applied and been chosen for a television play called It 's Too Late to Talk to Billy which was set in Belfast — which is where I came from originally . |
| 13 | Simmo , who has become a favourite of pupils of Hurworth Primary School , near Darlington , described the slow build up to the conflict and the dangers they encountered as they came within four miles of the Kuwaiti coast . |
| 14 | They came in four pairs from the only four directions from which the farm could be assailed . |
| 15 | Davenport played within four days of a similar operation . |
| 16 | He only played in four Tests but the sweater ( and his knotted silk scarf ) became his uniform . |
| 17 | An eight-member oboe band provided all of the instrumental accompaniment for the mascarade : it played in four parts for the dance pieces and to accompany the choruses , was reduced to a trio texture to accompany the bass airs , and provided a bass line during the other vocal airs and recitatives . |
| 18 | A fine all-round games player , he was a dogged opening batsman , and played in four Cambridge University seasons , scoring centuries in two successive Varsity matches . |
| 19 | THEY came from four continents — a cross-section of customers covering the whole textile chain , from yarn spinners and fabric producers to dyers , finishers and garment manufacturers . |
| 20 | The idea for the branch came from four nurses at South Cleveland Hospital . |
| 21 | She was then based at Portland from where she sailed on four month training cruises . |
| 22 | I played on four albums for Barry Gibb ; I worked for Dionne Warwick on the ‘ Heartbreaker ’ and some film music for ‘ Staying Alive ’ . |
| 23 | Being a Silver Jubilee , passengers were serenaded by the Eccleston Silver Band as they rode behind four steam locomotives in a range of stock from our own home made coach to a Welsh coach from our No. 1 steam engine 's home of Llanberis to the diminutive but delightful Groudle Glen coach from the Isle of Man . |
| 24 | And the British Rail Board stalled for four years , before admitting there was no evidence . |
| 25 | She had no time to aim and fired off four shots in rapid succession . |
| 26 | It rained for four days . |
| 27 | Five other people — three of them women — were injured , including a man of 19 trapped for four hours . |
| 28 | And then he withdrew after four sets against the former champion Michael Chang . |
| 29 | The England international magically skipped past four defenders as though stardust had been sprinkled on his boots after turning on the edge of the area . |
| 30 | The research consisted of four stages — the first to show us where we were before the campaign went on air , the second ( half way through the 8-week TV campaign ) and the third ( immediately after the campaign had finished ) to show what impact the advertising had . |