Example sentences of "four [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | For two weeks after the spine operation , Michael was again on a bed that could be turned , so that his spine was completely immobilised , and he spent four hours on his back and two on his front . |
| 2 | COLIN McRAE of Scotland recorded his second runaway victory of the year when he won the Carlisle-based Pirelli International by over four minutes in his Subaru at the weekend . |
| 3 | However , it looked as though the talents of Prost were to be rewarded in 1983 when he went into the final race of the season at Kyalami with four wins to his credit and a two-point lead over Nelson Piquet . |
| 4 | One expects a child who mastered four notes in his first week to master four more in the second ; a child who has achieved doggy-paddle with both feet off the bottom to progress logically to breaststroke . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , blow Titania , ’ he said , putting four fingers into his waistband , which was on the loose side at the moment . |
| 6 | Retired John Ownsworth , 55 , of Penistone , South Yorks , yesterday needed plastic surgery to save his thumb after the four fingers on his left hand were severed in the explosion . |
| 7 | Whilst Henry II was in Normandy , he learned of Thomas 's continued intransigence and that caused Henry II to utter the words , ‘ Will no-one rid me of this troublesome person ? ’ , which prompted four knights of his household to cross to England and assassinate Thomas Becket in his Cathedral , on 29th . |
| 8 | He took four pennies from his other pocket . |
| 9 | He fought four times for his seat on Southampton council before winning it : a result that encouraged him to move into national politics . |
| 10 | Mr Farquharson claimed in a recent interview in the Sun that Miss Bonham-Carter had replied four times to his letters and sent him a signed photo with a kiss . |
| 11 | He was docked four times on his way to reaching his first one day century . |
| 12 | Colin resents the notion that he does n't carry a big punch and this could be a chance for him to try to prove otherwise as Palacio admits to having been knocked out four times in his 58-fight career . |
| 13 | Cardiff had seen similar identification only four times in his professional life . |
| 14 | Mr Boesky 's return to his old haunts comes with four months of his sentence still to run . |
| 15 | Within four months of his coming , numbers had risen to 27 ; within seven , there were 53 , and he was authorized to take on an assistant from September . |
| 16 | A new Bishop of Gloucester has been named , four months after his predecessor resigned in disgrace . |
| 17 | But Daum coolly , cynically and calculatingly named the four foreigners in his squad from the start . |
| 18 | As for his neglect of education in Islay , he maintained four schools at his own cost before he owned an acre of land in Islay and that in Port Ellen where the most important of these was he had paid the salary of the teacher for 22 years . |
| 19 | The creator of the ‘ miracle ’ at Sabina Park , 1989–90 , Graham Gooch has four centuries to his name against West Indies . |
| 20 | Squeaky Sutton , the landlord of the ‘ Windy Ridge ’ for the past thirty years , looked up as the noisy party clattered down the four steps into his cosy cellar bar . |
| 21 | To which h adds four words of his own : ‘ The government is lying . ’ |
| 22 | He sits by the hour with three or four words on his typing paper and listens to the noise from the room of a neighbour . |
| 23 | In 1875 he gave four lectures on his discoveries at the Royal Institution , and 1877 saw the publication of his book , Discoveries at Ephesus ; a second book , Discoveries on the Site of Ancient Ephesus , published posthumously in 1890 , added little to the earlier work . |
| 24 | The author recalls one occasion where the land was bought in three or four bids after his company 's last bid . |
| 25 | He kicked the bike round on his right boot , riding only inches from the bank , the top only four feet above his head . |
| 26 | From 1940 to 1954 he wrote regularly for the New York Herald Tribune and four volumes of his notices have appeared in book form . |
| 27 | George Goodall arrived in 1955 as assistant experimental officer with just four A-levels to his credit , his progress to further education having been interrupted by two years ' National Service . |
| 28 | Since then it 's been almost all downhill with another four defeats in his next five fights , three inside the distance . |
| 29 | His health was excellent ; only for the last four years of his life did he suffer from intermittent fever . |
| 30 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |