Example sentences of "four [noun pl] [adv] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 16 minutes Eamonn Kavanagh 's effort was deflected inches wide of an upright by Alan Hall and four minutes later Philip Mitchell sent John Crilly tumbling in the area as the Town captain chased McCaul 's astute free kick but referee Freddie McKnight waved away the home side 's penalty kick claims . |
| 2 | Four minutes later Lindsay McVicker let fly at a cross from Catherine Howard but the ball flew past the upright . |
| 3 | Four minutes later Darren Tilly wasted a good effort for Yate when he shot weakly at Warner after evading five tackles . |
| 4 | Four minutes later Carl Leven 's header went over the bar with a cross coming in from the left , Charlton going in confidence , although United had the chances to put the game well beyond their reach . |
| 5 | Four minutes later John Fashanu poked home a Wimbledon equaliser after a corner and then Roberts , left dizzy and with a sore head , was led off — to be joined in the dressing room eight minutes later by the limping Ferdinand . |
| 6 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
| 7 | Four months ago Alan Govier was looking forward to early retirement , buying a new car and perhaps going on holiday . |
| 8 | WHEN Derry announced their championship ambitions with a comprehensive victory over Down four months ago Joe Brolly did n't even make the squad . |
| 9 | Four months later Alan Howarth , Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the D.E.S. , addressed the twenty-first anniversary celebrations of the Politics Association at the House of Commons . |
| 10 | Four years later Mrs J was able to sell the shared house and buy a cottage for herself . |
| 11 | Four years later Alfred Morris became Minister for the Disabled . |
| 12 | Four years later Pope Adrian IV at the Concordat of Benevento turned the ruler of Sicily , William , into his liegeman . |
| 13 | In 1982 he was appointed a Vicar General in the Diocese of Westminster and four years later Pope John Paul II appointed Monsignor Crowley as Auxiliary Bishop to Cardinal Hume . |
| 14 | Four years later George Bush based his famous ‘ Read my lips — no new taxes ’ on the same assumption . |
| 15 | Perhaps there was a glimmer of hope in 1949 when someone of the stature ( rather than the disposition ) of de Gaulle might have seized the burning brand ; and four years later Mendès France could face the unacceptable although by then there was practically no alternative . |
| 16 | Four years ago Count Nikolai Tolstoy was successfully sued by Lord Aldington over allegations about the repatriation of Cossacks and Slavs after the Second World War . |
| 17 | Four years earlier F. W. Bateson of Oxford had founded Essays in Criticism , a quarterly meant to emulate or surpass Leavis 's Scrutiny ( 1932–53 ) , then nearing its natural end . |
| 18 | But , according to documents revealed in court yesterday , four days later Lord Aldington 's V Corps wrote to Eighth Army requesting ‘ a free hand ’ to use force if necessary ‘ to honour our verbal agreement with Soviet forces ’ and return all Soviet nationals to Soviet forces . |