Example sentences of "it [vb past] four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he said er ten pound were n't it , but it made four joints , yeah |
| 2 | And Tony from Telford says , I spent years combing my hair over my bald patch , it stopped four months ago and I 'm much much happier . |
| 3 | Yes coun councillor I can advise you that in fact it did cost considerably in excess of two pounds fifty , it cost four pounds and sixty one pence each . |
| 4 | It scrawled four shapes in the dust . |
| 5 | It identified four lessons which had been learned from the Management Budgeting experience : |
| 6 | It comprised four documents , the centrepiece being the " Agreement on a Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict " . |
| 7 | It affected four people — three from one family — and was caused by Salmonella typhimurium in eggs purchased from a stall at Bedworth Market . |
| 8 | Since it arrived four days ago , every last word was beaten into her brain . |
| 9 | It fielded four candidates who averaged just under 10 per cent where they stood . |
| 10 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 14 | It took four visits ( over a seven-week period ) to put an end to her phobia once and for all and to allow her to lead the happy , normal life she so desired . |
| 15 | It took four hours before he could move , during which time the lifeless body of Ewan Famber that was , leaked fluids off the white table on to the ceraplas floor . |
| 16 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 17 | It took four hours and a long phone call to find the answer . |
| 18 | It took four hours to fix . |
| 19 | It took four minutes to connect . |
| 20 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It took four bouncers to get her off me . ’ |
| 23 | Oh , oh , it took four sides , James , after this . |
| 24 | It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 . |
| 25 | It took four nomes to carry it . |
| 26 | It took four shampoos to , to get the bugger out ! |
| 27 | It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making . |
| 28 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 29 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 30 | 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 . |