Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] four " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 2 | Mrs Patient of Bracknell , Berks , said : ‘ I could n't believe that it took four of them to stand there and say they could n't do the work until after the New Year . |
| 3 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 4 | But he will have been worried that it took four fine saves from John Lukic to keep City out . |
| 5 | The lengthy minutes of the meeting [ KP 115 ] show that it covered four main subjects . |
| 6 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 7 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 8 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 9 | My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on . |
| 10 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 11 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 12 | When Geevor mine announced 300 layoffs , the CAB was ready to move in , and it held four days of emergency advice sessions at the mine . |
| 13 | So Vi called them her last-day-of-peace roses and vowed they would remain there until the war was over , even if it lasted four years , like the last one had done . |
| 14 | Well that 's right , even with help from upstairs , I mean , if it had four wheels on right , alright . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And he said er ten pound were n't it , but it made four joints , yeah |
| 17 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 18 | Since it arrived four days ago , every last word was beaten into her brain . |
| 19 | This will result in a narrowing of the range of costs which were given by Touche Ross when it costed four alternative options for single-tier councils . |
| 20 | Under her direction , the squad became a very close-knit affair comprising as it did four cousins , six nephews and a younger brother ( 42 ) . |