Example sentences of "and it [vb past] four [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
2 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |