Example sentences of "it [vb past] four [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It scrawled four shapes in the dust . |
| 2 | It spent four weeks at the top of Off the Record 's local artists chart last summer and after a recent re-release , sales topped 1000 . |
| 3 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 4 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It took four shampoos to , to get the bugger out ! |
| 7 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It took four years of hard work and fundraising . |
| 10 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 11 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 12 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 13 | Although it fielded no candidates in the prefectural contests , it won four seats in the national constituency . |
| 14 | It had four companies with only a 67 per cent . |
| 15 | It had four storeys above street level , where importantly there was a boutique ( a shop for the sale of musical instruments ) and atelier ( workshop ) ( document 5 ) . |
| 16 | Sure enough , it had four processes around the mouth which looked like antennae . |
| 17 | Well that 's right , even with help from upstairs , I mean , if it had four wheels on right , alright . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |