Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] the [num ord] four " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richards Shipbuilders has the first four Gem-class minesweepers under construction in its East Anglian yards at Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft . |
| 2 | GERMANY , another side to have ‘ employed ’ the technical know-how of a foreigner ( Emil Signes , the former coach and current manager of the US Eagles sevens side ) were equally unsuccessful in their bid to reach the last four . |
| 3 | Graf dropped the last four games of the second set after serving for the match at 5–3 , but then powered past fifth-seeded Sabatini 6–2 5–7 6–1 . |
| 4 | Mrs Molesworth spent the next four years in France and Germany , but returned to England permanently in 1883 . |
| 5 | After 22 hectic laps and 80 miles , only half a second covered the first four . |
| 6 | After drawing their first two matches , the team won the next four games to claim third spot in the Stone and District Cricket League — just 11 points adrift of the leaders . |
| 7 | In the diary covering the last four years of his life there is little mention of books , but he had brought out an edition of Aristophanes ' ‘ Plutus ’ and ‘ Clouds ’ in 1767 . |
| 8 | The last time Bangor reached the last four was in 1968 when they lost to Crusaders . |
| 9 | So Carlton 's proposals to televise the first four books in Mike 's Angel series next year may be welcome . |
| 10 | Their opponents tomorrow will be Spain , the second seeds , who overwhelmed the Soviet Union in the two singles matches to reach the last four . |
| 11 | It would obviously be the worst of craftsmanship to score the first four bars as they stand for the violins and viola and at the fifth bar to weaken one of the parts by division . |
| 12 | Victory arrived in a flourish when Richard Hignett deposited the last four balls of the 42nd over from Furse for 6 , 2 , 4 and 6 . |
| 13 | The programme was changed for the final to allow her to make unlimited unforced errors , and after holding points to win the first four games , which she did n't , she hardly raised a challenge . |
| 14 | The approach route to the mountain was complicated by dense bamboo forest on the final climb up the Kusum Khola , hacking through thickets to cover the last four miles to the base camp at 4,000 metres . |
| 15 | To tie in , the BFI have launched the first of four booklets to accompany the first four movies named in the series , THE WIZARD OF OZ , DOUBLE INDEMNITY , STAGECOACH and WENT THE DAY WELL . |
| 16 | Dickinson was no stranger to success in the Gold Cup — he had trained the first two home , Silver Buck and Bregawn , in 1982 — but his feat in the 1983 contest is unique in big-race records , and to find anything remotely comparable you have to go back to 1822 , when James Croft 's four runners in the St Leger filled the first four places . |
| 17 | Erm colours then er Alex do the first four colours on the left to see if you 've got the right one . |
| 18 | The non-performing writer could be offered a firm one-year deal with options covering the next four years . |
| 19 | Third place went to Johnnie Rea who was the only rider likely to catch King in the championship but even if Rea wins the next four rounds — both at Bishopscourt — King can not be caught . |
| 20 | Nilsson added the fourth four minutes from time . |
| 21 | Before moving up the screen to print the next four sections , manually move the continuous stationery in the printer to the start of a new page , otherwise , the next section printed will join with this one . |