Example sentences of "[verb] the fourth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frogmarched to the open rear doors , she met the fourth man coming the other way , his arms struggling to restrain the squirming , yelling child . |
| 2 | The industrious biographer of Bernard Shaw has just completed the fourth volume , but it appears as if bricks , not books , will finish him off . |
| 3 | I do notice one or two places , though , where Ciccolini departs form the Durand text — e.g. he plays the fourth and sixth quarte of the study in fourths as E and A instead of G and C , and the second quaver in bar 10 of the final ‘ chords ’ study is a G minor chord where G major is printed ( though we get G major in the reprise at 4′18″ ) . |
| 4 | The outstanding ties are the visit of Barnet , who almost made the Fourth Division twice in recent seasons , to Cambridge City 's four-year-old stadium ; a derby between Dover and Folkestone , who had four players sent off against Redhill in the previous round ; and , by a nice coincidence , the meeting of Bishop Auckland , defectors to the HFS Loans League , and South Bank , loyal to their roots , almost exactly a century on from their historic match . |
| 5 | On the same day , Andy Popp made the fourth ascent of the scary Never Never Land , E6 6b . |
| 6 | Again in the interests of compactness , a single pinion on the primary shaft simultaneously drives the fourth gear pinion on the upper secondary shaft and the fifth gear pinion on the lower secondary . |
| 7 | And Wasps remain the fourth undefeated club in the First Division after a 15-13 win at Harlequins . |
| 8 | The second half brought Tchaikovsky 's 4th symphony , where I fear the fourth movement was a little too fast , certainly on its opening , although a conductor can well afford to accelerate the pace towards the conclusion . |
| 9 | Abdul Qadir , who finished unbeaten on 39 , became the fourth Pakistani after Intikhab Alam , Imran Khan and Sarfraz Nawaz to achieve a Test double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets . |
| 10 | ( His second son , Philip Dormer Stanhope , who became the fourth earl , was the famous politician , wit , gambler and letter writer . ) |
| 11 | He went first thing next morning , though , and the innings closed on 270 as Holding became the fourth West Indian to take 200 Test wickets . |
| 12 | Holland 's Richard Krajicek became the fourth man through to the big money stage when he beat Spain 's Emilio Sanchez 6-3 , 6-2 . |
| 13 | Barry Horne became the fourth player to be booked for a foul on Le Saux . |
| 14 | Dick was describing the first flight of the fifth airworthy Hurricane in the world on the day that it tragically became the fourth . |
| 15 | Sixteen years and one month later , Bunny Johnson became the fourth black boxer to win a Lonsdale Belt , the most coveted award in British boxing ( Randolph Turpin was the first in 1956 , Bunny Sterling the second in 1973 , Maurice Hope the third in 1976 ) . |
| 16 | After being stranded on 99 for 25 minutes , he finally lost both patience and nerve and became the fourth player in the match to be dismissed in sight of a century as he charged down the pitch . |
| 17 | He became the fourth of the afternoon to be caught behind off one which left him , this time off Watson , who did the stock-bowler 's job much better than Pringle and in Christchurch . |
| 18 | At Wellington Ian Botham became the fourth Englishman , after Colin Cowdrey , David Gower and Geoff Boycott , to appear in 100 Test matches . |
| 19 | When he took over his father 's stables in 1968 he became the fourth generation of the family to train at Newmarket but he broke tradition when he moved to North Yorkshire in 1970 . |
| 20 | On Feb. 26 , 1990 , Silvia Dussan , a journalist working for the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) , became the fourth journalist to be murdered by suspected right-wing paramilitaries in 1990 ( 12 were murdered in 1989 ) , who the same day were blamed for the murder of Diana Cardona Saldarriaga , the left-wing Patriotic Union ( Unión Patriótica — UP ) mayor of Apartado . |
| 21 | On Aug. 13 Belgium became the fourth EC country to house Cuban citizens in its Embassy ( Italy and Switzerland having temporarily sheltered seven ) . |
| 22 | In June , Namibia became the fourth member of the Joint Commission on South-Western Africa ( along with Cuba , South Africa and Angola ) , established by the Brazzaville Protocol [ see pp. 36380 ] to supervise regional peace . |
| 23 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 24 | Israel became the fourth country , after Hungary , Lithuania and Bulgaria , with which Ukraine had established diplomatic relations . |
| 25 | Let us make the fourth choice — which actual apartments you 'll be staying in — and you 'll find yourself with a whole lot more holiday spending money into the bargain . |
| 26 | The plaintiff sought a declaration that the use of Bridge Road and the section of Medway Road between Bridge Road and its junction up to its junction with Mill Road by heavy goods vehicles coming to and from the premises of the fourth and fifth defendants at the Chatham Dockyard between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. constituted a public nuisance ; an injunction prohibiting the fourth and fifth defendants from causing or permitting heavy goods vehicles coming to or from their premises at Chatham Dockyard to use those roads between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. ; an injunction prohibiting the dock company from permitting heavy goods vehicles to enter or leave the Chatham Dockyard by the Gillingham Gate between those hours ; and a mandatory injunction requiring the dock company to take all steps within its power to prevent the use of those roads by heavy goods vehicles of the fourth and fifth defendants between those hours . |
| 27 | They were now on Ladbroke Grove , completing the fourth side of the rectangle . |
| 28 | Well I like , usually I like three out of the four and then nobody seems to like the fourth |
| 29 | It was five one pound bets that we put on between us , I put two on , my wife put three on , and all mine were place bets , and I got the winner and I got the fourth , and my wife got the second , and the other one of hers lost . |
| 30 | Dave Heath got the fourth … the Wildcats finally stirred thanks to a goal from Bryan Larkin … the Kings kept going though … they led by 10-1 in the third period before Swindon came back with four late goals … it finished 11 … 5 … with fists flying as tempers flared towards the end … the second leg in two weeks time at Swindon should be a scorcher |