Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] four [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | What we now call Euclidean space-time is very similar except that it has four dimensions instead of two . |
| 4 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 5 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 6 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We got about twenty panels at work and on the panel there 's a little plastic thing stuck on and it needs four keys and one . |
| 10 | spri spring , er two springs at the bottom and just a flat bar and it has four keys with springs on the top and like , you just go |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Well that 's right , even with help from upstairs , I mean , if it had four wheels on right , alright . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And he said er ten pound were n't it , but it made four joints , yeah |
| 16 | ( normal ) It 's a dog , but it has four legs . |
| 17 | This is a complex table , because it contains four variables ; work through the effect of each explanatory variable systematically , looking at the relevant marginal relationships as well . |
| 18 | Since it arrived four days ago , every last word was beaten into her brain . |
| 19 | You were late getting in your order for the film ( though you swear the office forgot to send it on ) so on the appointed day , when it is n't there , you have to cobble something else together — and then show the film , when it arrives four weeks later , in the middle of a block of work to which it does not relate . |
| 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 ) . |