Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orange badge holders will be allowed to park on High Row and Skinnergate for three hours up to 10.30am ; those arriving just before the deadline can stay the three hours . |
| 2 | Hates the blooming hours but |
| 3 | I passed the intervening hours in growing apprehension ; morning parade , the march through the darkness to breakfast . |
| 4 | The tone of Gould 's letter was typically formal and cursory , given the long hours and the revelations they had shared . |
| 5 | Where a restaurant certificate or a restricted hotel licence is being granted or transferred , if it appears to the licensing board that only a mid-day meal or an evening meal is being provided , it can restrict the permitted hours to the mid-day period , if only a mid-day meal is being provided , or to the evening period , if only an evening meal is being provided . |
| 6 | Duncan had wanted to wait the few hours it would take to fix the Citation and run checks on it , but Myeloski was anxious to get to Tobolsk . |
| 7 | The company has then got to say : ‘ If you want to take three months ’ holiday , good luck to you provided the contracted hours are worked . ’ |
| 8 | These sums do not include the many hours given corporately by BP and privately by employees in support of this expenditure . |
| 9 | When the children are taken off to play , the couple smooched the happy hours away |
| 10 | Since Ruth was required to be less and less with the children she found herself with too much time on her hands , and since she was unused to idleness she found the vacant hours trying . |
| 11 | They claim that the education authority 's official statement of his learning difficulties failed to specify the amount of extra teaching he should have , and that his school was unable to provide the five hours a week one-to-one lessons they believe he needs . |
| 12 | I suppose it 's too much to expect a senior Queen 's Counsel to work the same hours as ordinary folk , ’ Bragg said grumpily . |
| 13 | Housewives simply do not expect to work the same hours in the home as they would in an office or factory . |
| 14 | Can this be the same tragic Lady Rothermere at whose inquest it was revealed had a stash of 2,000 pills lying round her French villa , who refused to travel abroad unless accompanied by massive quantities of prescribed drugs and who was so exhilarated by her fast-moving lifestyle she could only survive the small hours by swallowing incautious numbers of sleeping tablets ? |
| 15 | Thus he helped to pass the tedious hours of air travel during a world tour in 1946 by reading Bagehot 's The English Constitution . |
| 16 | Well aware that it was a game to Richard — a pretence with which to pass the empty hours — and that it was to Anne , rather than Joan , he was in this instance referring , such comments never failed to annoy Edward — as Richard was well aware . |
| 17 | Military staff ensured that they had no sleep for the first three days , after which short periods of sleep ( 4 hours ) were permitted every twenty-four hours . |
| 18 | The Island of Taiwan is situated several hundred miles off the Chinese mainland , west of Hong Kong ; Japan lies a few hours ’ plane ride north-west while the Philippines rest a similar distance southwards . |
| 19 | There were women with shopping baskets and men in working clothes , the Evening Standard reported a few hours later , as well as a number of boys and girls . |
| 20 | Why do n't you wait a few hours and see if he gets what you need from Blagg ? ’ |
| 21 | Now , Roger , I beg you , let us go back to our chamber , warm ourselves , snatch a few hours of sleep and tomorrow , as we break fast in the hall , I shall confront the murderer . ’ |
| 22 | Last night 's shooting occurred a few hours after the previous victim , a former Irish Republican Army man shot dead by the Provos for allegedly turning police informer , was buried in Belfast . |
| 23 | He had a nasogastric tube which was allowed to drain into a bag and was also aspirated every 4 hours to ensure that his stomach remained empty . |
| 24 | But to say the truth , madam , let a man love reading never so well , when once he comes to know this tawn , he finds so many better ways of passing the four-and-twenty hours , that 't were ten thousand pities he should consume his time in that . |
| 25 | Here , for example , is how the American journalist I. F. Stone describes the last hours of his voyage to Haifa , aboard a Turkish refugee ship called the Akbel , a listing hulk carrying hundreds of concentration camp survivors on their journey to Palestine . |
| 26 | STIMULATED TO STUDY There 's no escaping the long hours spent alone with your notes — but there are variations that could even prove enjoyable |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll do the two hours a day . |
| 28 | Medical advances almost invariably increase the demands on doctors ' time , and it is this increased intensity of working that has made the long hours of many doctors intolerable . |
| 29 | If in pain control , you were in control of your own pain , you have less than if it were a set wait every four hours for us to come and give you a tablet . |
| 30 | ELVIS PRESLEY 'S last letter , written a few hours before he died , was to an elderly woman he looked on almost as a mother . |