Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] fourth " in BNC.
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1 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
2 | The primary legend of Atlantis seems to have started in the fourth century BC , when Plato wrote that Solon , who had lived a century or so earlier , had visited Egypt and there had been told by a priest that , once upon a time , there had existed a continent beyond the Pillars of Hercules ( that is , the Strait of Gibraltar ) . |
3 | Geoffrey had stopped outside the fourth ground-floor window from the garden door — Loretta was relieved to observe a lack of lights in the rooms adjoining it — and was already slipping his ruler into the gap between the two parts of the sash window . |
4 | three down Oxford 's confidence and nerves were shot to pieces … and goodness knows what was said in the dressing room at half-time after Mr. Mooney had banged in the fourth goal … |
5 | Some had existed from the fourth and fifth centuries on — especially the great pilgrim basilicas of Rome , with St Peter and St Paul fuori le mura in the lead . |
6 | He 's Born on the Fourth of July . |