Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] fourth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three of them ran downstairs to the debtor 's room where they were joined by a fourth helper , Mrs Bangham , charwoman and messenger who volunteered her services as flycatcher and general attendant , and fanned the patient with a cabbage leaf throughout her delivery . |
| 2 | All three hung in the air , moving and looping , until they were joined by a fourth : white , green , red , blue . |
| 3 | Micky and the two girls were looking for a fourth person — someone having just moved out and on . |
| 4 | Both of the former two mosaics were attributed to the fourth century ( entirely on stylistic grounds ) , and by virtue of its association with the saltire mosaic ( pI . |
| 5 | New cottages were envisaged by the fourth tee but the District council planners objected , so a site alongside the 18th fairway was agreed to a building proceeded . |
| 6 | Ray Hankin , who took temporary charge when the team were heading towards the Fourth Division , was the first applicant . |
| 7 | To this was added the promise to privatise British Coal if the Conservatives were re-elected for a fourth term . |
| 8 | ‘ I played in the last game in the Third Division before we were relegated to the Fourth . |
| 9 | The Russians were opposed by the Fourth Austro-Hungarian Army ( Archduke Joseph Ferdinand ) just south of the Pripet Marshes with , on its right , the First Army ( von Brlog ) . |
| 10 | These were followed by a fourth sortie of around one hour ten minutes , involving a display . |
| 11 | Some steps against pluralism were taken at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , but an altogether more far-reaching measure was promulgated at the Council of Lyons in 1274 . |
| 12 | So St Wilfrid the bishop and his clergy on bended knees lifted their hands again to heaven and gained the help of the Lord … who straightway bade the tide return before its usual hour , and while the pagans , on the coming of their king were preparing for a fourth battle , the sea came back and covered all the shore , so that the ship was floated and made its way into the deep . |
| 13 | Sunderland were playing against a fourth team ( whose tenure in the First Division was not in doubt ) . |
| 14 | It 's now fifteen months since the Tories were elected for a fourth term and what 've we seen since that election ? |
| 15 | Numerous churches were constructed in the fourth to sixth centuries after the establishment of Christianity as the official religion of Rome . |
| 16 | The Test match at Old Trafford , which had been packed with stirring deeds , was plunged on the fourth evening into hideous disarray . |
| 17 | Ward was dismissed in the fourth minute of Saints ' 12-8 Regal Trophy quarter-final defeat by Castleford on Saturday for a trip on Mike Ford . |
| 18 | His dramatic evidence was given on the fourth day of the trial of his former common-law wife Shiela Stroud , 32 , and her lover Mark Evans , 31 . |
| 19 | The Small Branch of the Year Award was won for the fourth consecutive year by Williston in North Dakota . |
| 20 | The claim was made on the fourth day of a public hearing into Newtownabbey Borough Council 's controversial plans to build a town hall and civic centre at the Hazelbank Park on the shores of Belfast Lough . |
| 21 | It is interesting to note that during renovations to an old house in the village dated 1638 , a priest hole was uncovered under the fourth step of a spiral staircase . |
| 22 | as I was going with the fourth year |
| 23 | Was Born on the Fourth of July after Top Gun ? |
| 24 | Under the terms of the Feb. 12 agreement — which was reached during the fourth round of the current inter-Korean sports talks — the two countries arranged to send a single team to the 41st World Table Tennis Championships in Japan ( April 24-May 6 ) and to the sixth World Youth Football Championships in Portugal ( June 14-30 ) . |
| 25 | The observed maximal effect was reached in the fourth hour although we do not know whether secretion would still have been higher in the fifth or sixth hour . |
| 26 | The wound from the dermatological surgery was debrided on the fourth day . |
| 27 | Constantine the Great , it is true , gave the bishops a more substantial role in the administration of justice , but this was reduced during the fourth and fifth centuries . |
| 28 | A mixed population of ECL cells and cells resembling P cells by the granule size was observed in patient no 5 while very heterogeneous cellular proliferation with a prominent ECL cell component was found in a fourth case ( case no 1 ) . |
| 29 | Gerrard was unhinged in the fourth round by a double-fisted barrage to the head . |
| 30 | It was , simply , Gordon explaining that ‘ the try ’ was scored on the fourth anniversary , roughly , of stopping — weighing anchor ? — at the Canaries en route in a 47-footer across the Atlantic to the USA . |