Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [art] fourth " in BNC.

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1 After being stranded on 99 for 25 minutes , he finally lost both patience and nerve and became the fourth player in the match to be dismissed in sight of a century as he charged down the pitch .
2 Cambridgeshire has adopted in the Chevely area a federal solution by technically ‘ closing ’ ( say ) three schools and enlarging a fourth to operate as a single administrative unit for the four school populations on their own sites .
3 Rose , giving evidence , said Sweeney had been refused a drink at three pubs and left a fourth .
4 But suppose we now attempt to extend the hierarchy and add a fourth element D under B. It immediately becomes clear that the apparent branching hierarchical structure is illusory , since not only B , but also C , stand in the relation ’ — larger than — ’ to D :
5 Team captain Murphy grabbed a first half hat-trick and added a fourth 15 minutes from the end to make it a great day for the Derry boys .
6 Sinn Fein , including chairman Tom Hartley , retained its three seats in the Lower Falls and took a fourth from the SDLP .
7 In September the epidemic of Spanish influenza that devastated Europe , and killed more people than the war , reached Abyssinia ; there it killed three of the five doctors in the country and incapacitated a fourth .
8 When the results became known the party leader , Konstantinos Mitsotakis , met with the single member of a small centre-right party , Democratic Renewal ( Komma Dimokratikis Ananeosis — DIANA ) , who agreed to give external support to an ND government to break the deadlock and avoid a fourth general election .
9 I wriggled down underneath the contraption and found a fourth , barely alive .
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