Example sentences of "[pron] took four [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 19 September Ho embarked on a packet boat which took four weeks to reach Hanoi . |
| 2 | With 43 recommendations , the report , which took four months to prepare , admits that ‘ a free society requires the freedom to say or print things that are inconvenient to those in authority , whether they be members of the Royal Family , ministers , MPs , local councillors or public officials ’ . |
| 3 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 4 | The Road Bunker 's fame burgeoned , no doubt , in 1978 when the luckless Japanese Tsuneyuki ( Tommy ) Nakajima dropped out of contention in The Open Championship when he took four shots to get out of the bunker . |
| 5 | It took four hours to fix . |
| 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 | It took four minutes to connect . |
| 8 | It took four bouncers to get her off me . ’ |
| 9 | It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 . |
| 10 | It took four nomes to carry it . |
| 11 | It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making . |
| 12 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 13 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 14 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 15 | It took four men to heave the huge Victorian cast-iron bath up the stairs . |