Example sentences of "take four [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 2 | It takes four songs for them to shake off their own ghost , but halfway through the aptly named ‘ Long Gone ’ it disappears . |
| 3 | It will take four years for trials on the designer tree to be completed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | PHIL SIMMONS took four wickets for just three runs against Pakistan yesterday to record the most economical spell in one-day international cricket history . |
| 6 | Star performers included Bill Holland of KPMG Peat Marwick who scored 95 of the Institute 's 250 for five wickets declared , and captain Feroze Dada of Freeman & Partners who took four wickets for 70 . |
| 7 | Donnelly back in section one after playing for Armagh , took four wickets for 25 and Corlett two for 20 . |
| 8 | David Whittaker hit an unbeaten 48 as Ormskirk reached 127–5 and then Paul Griffiths took four wickets for 19 runs as St Helens replied with 113–9 . |
| 9 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 10 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 11 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 12 | The innings fell apart with Connor O'Brien , who also opened the Railway Union innings along with his brother Paul , taking four wickets for eight runs from only five overs . |
| 13 | It was a different story when St Bede 's batted , with Stuart Beaumont taking four wickets for 17 runs in his three overs . |