Example sentences of "[adj] [art] hour for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crooking an index finger , she summoned a waiter and proceeded to inform him that she had been waiting fully half an hour for her pancakes and that it would not do . |
| 2 | And why was she getting only half an hour for dinner when he next door could have three quarters of an hour ? |
| 3 | You can follow this treatment with a face-pack , or wait half an hour for your skin to settle down and apply your usual moisturiser . |
| 4 | It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck . |
| 5 | Write briefly how you , as a receptionist , would deal with the situation where guests complain that their room has not been cleaned and they have had to wait over a half an hour for room service . |
| 6 | The drinking-up time is half an hour for people taking meals if the liquor was supplied ancillary to meals . |
| 7 | I got up at six , spent all day cleaning other people 's houses , from 8.30 a.m. until 4.30 , with half an hour for dinner , for £25 . |
| 8 | We used to have an hour and a quarter fro lunch , half an hour for tea , and we used to er have to get the principal 's tea ready and in the midmorning they always had tea made of milk . |
| 9 | this is an initial interview for up to half an hour for which the maximum charge will be £5 . |
| 10 | And course you , other than the half an hour for a meal in the middle of the night er that was it you got no time off at all . |
| 11 | The specimen should be left for at least half an hour for the acetone to evaporate . |
| 12 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 13 | It could take half an hour for a bomb disposal team to get to Royalbion House . |
| 14 | It took about half an hour for the wave riders to travel from Minsterworth to Gloucester . |
| 15 | And they paid me sixteen and six an hour for the tractor and a mower and myself . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll pay you two fifty an hour for as many hours as you can put in these holidays . |
| 17 | Hell' she cried , ’ 'I used to get more than that an hour for softening them' . |