Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] four [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today I had four baths to fill in time and I invented you . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dear Uncle Mike and Auntie Sue … they had four children to think about , but had still made the effort to choose a book Rebecca would really enjoy . |
| 4 | On 1 March he published his intention of inviolably observing the Charter of the Forest in all its articles : he appointed four commissioners to supervise the making in each forest county of ‘ a true perambulation , namely that which was made in the time of the lord King Henry our father , which has not yet been challenged ’ . |
| 5 | He identified four factors to explain the variation in employee protection : |
| 6 | He directed four formateurs to submit names for the federal Cabinet and chose Hatta as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It took four hours to fix . |
| 9 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 10 | It took four minutes to connect . |
| 11 | It took four bouncers to get her off me . ’ |
| 12 | It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 . |
| 13 | It took four nomes to carry it . |
| 14 | It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 17 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 18 | It took four men to heave the huge Victorian cast-iron bath up the stairs . |
| 19 | Have + direct object + to can also evoke the idea of " having present for the purpose of " : ( 7a ) He had four examiners to ask him all sorts of questions . |
| 20 | The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay . |