Example sentences of "it [vb past] four [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 It took four hours to fix .
2 I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith .
3 It took four minutes to connect .
4 It took four bouncers to get her off me . ’
5 It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 .
6 It took four nomes to carry it .
7 It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making .
8 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 .
9 he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him
10 Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid .
11 It took four men to heave the huge Victorian cast-iron bath up the stairs .
12 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 .
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