Example sentences of "and [verb] four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The victim was confronted by a group of youths and stabbed four times as he walked home at Bletchley in Milton Keynes . |
| 2 | The Delft Cycle Plan of 1979 recognised the deteriorating conditions for many cycle trips within the city and designated four criteria for plan development : quality of facilities , quantity of provision , continuity of the network and comfort in its use . |
| 3 | Gionesca wore a bedsheet and a necklace of rabbit-bones , and led four pall-bearers carrying a plastic carton containing a Marlboro butt . |
| 4 | ‘ We usually draw at home against Arsenal and concede four goals in the return match at Highbury . |
| 5 | He knocked what remained of the spaghetti into a saucepan , and placed four slices of Mother 's Pride bread under the grill of the electric cooker . |
| 6 | A complete cycle of excitation for the hybrid motor consists of four states and produces four steps of rotor movement . |
| 7 | Like so much else in these cantos , the last line is midleading , since it suggests it was by an edict of Henry III that the Magna Charta was sent to all cathedrals and read four times a year , whereas Coke 's Institutes make it clear that this was on the contrary an enactment of Edward I. ‘ Selinunte ’ and ‘ Akragas ’ ( the old name of Agrigento ) are ancient Greek cities in Sicily . |
| 8 | The Christie Hospital is one of the foremost cancer treatment hospitals in the country , and Nigel was admitted the day after Boxing Day and given four X-ray therapy treatments . |
| 9 | The cost of and gain four bedrooms |
| 10 | The computer did most of the hard work and produced four circles with radii 4,781 4,647 , 4,718 and 4,685 metres . |
| 11 | In a rare night-time raid early on June 5 , Israel air force jets attacked a base of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command ( PFLP -GC ) , killing three guerrillas and wounding four others . |
| 12 | I want to lay vinyl in a room which is L-shaped and has four alcoves . |
| 13 | The J. Paul Getty Museum publishes its own books on the museum 's collections and has four titles coming out next season . |
| 14 | The 99MHz Model 755 offers similar performance and uses the same input-output system as the 735 but offers 64Mb to 768Mb RAM with up to 4Gb internal storage , supports 297Gb hard disk and two removables — either floppy , CD or DAT and has four EISA slots . |
| 15 | The puzzle supports mouse , joystick or keyboard and has four levels of difficulty , giving hours of fun for all ages . |
| 16 | The Coopers & Lybrand study identified and analysed four stages in acquiring a company : |
| 17 | Kadi Samawna ( Seyh Bedreddin ) and specifies four men who , he says , led the criticism of Molla Fenari : Molla Burhan al-Din Haydar Herewi ( Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi ) , the mufti in Edirne " , who was to give the fetva sanctioning Seyh Bedreddin 's execution ; Molla Yegan ; Kutb al-Din Izniki-zade Baha " al-Din " Umar Celebi ( Bahaeddin Omer ) ; and the vezir Hajji " Iwad Pasha ( Haci Ivaz Pasa ) . |
| 18 | Barnsley managed to raise £31 , sent two petitions , and approached four schools about the Children 's Postcard Art Competition . |
| 19 | Capable of a 109mph top speed , acceleration from standstill to 62mph in 13 secs and seating four adults , Volvo 's Environmental Concept Car stacks up like few others in claiming a place on the roads of tomorrow . |
| 20 | Watching her , staring into her eyes , he opened his furs to the breast and cut four lines with the wood , marking himself . |
| 21 | It comes with a wrist strap and uses four Duracell MN 1500 batteries . |
| 22 | Israeli forces ambush and kill four members of the Palestinian " Black Panther " group in Nablus . |
| 23 | Then the ‘ Observer ’ correspondent rose and fired four questions rapidly at his most sensitive spot — his attitude to black majority rule . |
| 24 | To set up and run four units for the production of Oral Rehydration Salt ( ORS ) packets , based on the World Health Organisation recipe described in Chapter 1 . |
| 25 | His biggest piece was a vestibule door panel depicting a heron and measuring four feet by three feet . |
| 26 | Horden full back Gary Ellis gave a faultless kicking display , converting five tries by Mark Withan , Paul Priestley ( 2 ) and Ian Grint plus a penalty try , and adding four penalties . |
| 27 | Sun intends that the UltraSparc should be highly superscalar and to handle four instructions in each clock cycle . |
| 28 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 29 | Whereas Indian , Malay , Arab and Chinese merchants had by and large traded peacefully for the exotic treasures of the islands since before the time of Christ , the marauding European buccaneers sought to own and control the real estate itself , and began four centuries of infighting . |
| 30 | Book a holiday in Bordeaux during October with Just France and visit four vineyards in the region for free . |