Example sentences of "and it took four " 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 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
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 | My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on . |
5 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |