Example sentences of "[conj] it take four [noun] " 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 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
4 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
5 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
8 | Even if it takes four week they 're stopping there . |