Example sentences of "[verb] for four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the concert she had to wait for four minutes before McCartney could rejoin her … while he accepted a standing ovation . |
| 2 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 3 | They also pointed to an incident during which a patient had to wait for four hours for an anaesthetist . |
| 4 | ‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone . |
| 5 | On the fourth day of your holiday you 'll make the easy coach journey from Rome to Florence , where you 'll stay for four nights at the Hotel Columbus . |
| 6 | Stopped for four months under third Waverley criterion . |
| 7 | Stopped for four months under first Waverley criterion . |
| 8 | Stopped for four months under third Waverley criterion . |
| 9 | What more do you want for four quid ? |
| 10 | High dose oral mesalazine does not seem to be nephrotoxic in rats when given for four weeks but both rats and dogs develop renal papillary necrosis when fed high dose mesalazine for 6 to 12 months . |
| 11 | Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques . |
| 12 | Mr Hamlyn operated for four hours on the man who remained in intensive care . |
| 13 | This has got ta defrost for four hours in the fridge . |
| 14 | Downstairs in casualty Diriham Ali , 21 , patient number 35 in the log book , is being treated for four gunshot wounds . |
| 15 | Once again , the same format as the previous two samples , but needles are now tucking for four rows before knitting for four rows . |
| 16 | Here we have an example of three or four adjacent needles tucking for four rows at the same time , creating a very interesting raised surface fabric that is sometimes called ‘ locket and block ’ because of the way the oval sections of the pattern occur between the raised blocks . |
| 17 | PHONE bills are set to fall for four years in a row from next August , it was announced yesterday . |
| 18 | Once again , the same format as the previous two samples , but needles are now tucking for four rows before knitting for four rows . |
| 19 | Designed for four sessions , Parenting In a TV Age provides a step-by-step process to help parents learn to analyse the media , to teach their children to do the same themselves and to enable them develop selection criteria for what to watch and what to miss . |
| 20 | He opened in London in 1898 in The Three Musketeers , and then toured for four years , adding fifty new parts to the first thirty . |
| 21 | Pour marinade over poussins , cover and refrigerate for four hours . |
| 22 | I 'm in Los Angeles with Britain 's Soul II Soul , who , nominated for four Soul Train awards , receive a record three . |
| 23 | Road works : Serious traffic delays are expected for four weeks while British Gas carries out excavations of the A59 at Rice Lane , near Walton Hospital , Liverpool . |
| 24 | DELAYS are expected for four weeks on the northbound carriageway of the M74 in Lanarkshire between junctions 7 , for Larkhall , and 6 , Motherwell . |
| 25 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |
| 26 | The two banks had agreed that BBV should be co-chaired for four years by a member from each side ( the other co-president being José Angel Sánchez Asiaín — Banco de Bilbao ) , but Banco de Bilbao was anxious to appoint a single president . |
| 27 | His most expensive buy was Robert Fleck for £2.1m last August but the former Norwich and Rangers player has scored only three goals and was dropped for four games last month . |
| 28 | Dawtrey , 18 , of Boundary Brook Road , Oxford , who admitted causing death by reckless driving and five offences of taking vehicles without consent , was also banned from driving for four years . |
| 29 | Last November he was banned from driving for four years , but says he probably wo n't ever drive again . |
| 30 | Judge Julian Hall sentenced Hayton to three months imprisonment and banned him from driving for four years . |