Example sentences of "[conj] it take 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 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 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 | Even if it takes four week they 're stopping there . |