Example sentences of "took [adv] four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 2 | He 's clever enough , and brave in spite of all I 've said — in that last raid he took on four men to save Ewan Beg 's life . |
| 3 | Precooked honey roast half Lincolnshire duckling took only four minutes from frozen using full power . |
| 4 | ‘ It was built in 1475 and took only four years to complete . |
| 5 | On adjacent courts , Amanda Brown — the former Wightman Cup player — shone as she romped to victory over Queen 's No. 1 Alison Grant 6–1 6–1 , while team mate Judy Rich — who this time last year led the Queen 's attack — took just four games more to defeat Karen Cass in the other singles rubber . |
| 6 | A jury at Liverpool Crown Court took nearly four hours to find Warren Green , 27 , guilty by a unanimous verdict . |
| 7 | Building the Foxton Locks took nearly four years . |
| 8 | Yet those British ships that reached harbour undamaged on 2 June were refuelled and made ready for sea within five hours , whereas the Germans took nearly four months to prepare their fleet to sail . |
| 9 | Er I do n't know if you 've experience of steel but when you feel the handles of a , a lathe first thing in a morning it 's like lifting pieces of ice and er the heating arrangement took about four hours before it built up you know , to a reasonable working degree . |
| 10 | All this took about four minutes . |
| 11 | A jury took almost four hours to reach their unanimous verdict at Liverpool Crown Court where Warren Green , 27 , had denied killing his wife Julie , 24 . |
| 12 | The journey of a normal wagon from London to Manchester took around four days carrying an astonishing range of commodities and the odd passenger . |