Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me four hours at a boffin-house and lasted through two sherries , three bottles of wine , a little brandy and a proposal ( of marriage ) . |
| 2 | Somebody was telling me it took her four years ! |
| 3 | When ARA famine officials went from Kazan' to Simbirsk in the autumn of 1921 , it took them four days to cover 150 miles . |
| 4 | It took him four years to get used to the doors at Stoneleigh ! |
| 5 | It took him four years to write his third , and posthumously published , novel , A Voice Through a Cloud ( 1950 ) , an account of the accident itself and his struggle to convalesce . |