Example sentences of "[art] [adj] hours [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking towards the station , having promised to bring back with her all sorts of expensive food items Tina had requested from Selfridges ' Food Hall , Cecilia thought how much she liked living on her own and that at seventy-six she was too old to have Jasper and Bienvida running around her , fond of them as she was , not to mention Tina 's boyfriends and the odd hours she kept and her lying in bed till noon . |
| 2 | new liners and that in the eight hours we were on shift . |
| 3 | Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest . |
| 4 | The law demanded that they attend school for the few hours they were not in the theatre , but time spent on education was minimal as the pantomime was so popular that there were matinées most days . |
| 5 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |
| 6 | He was making a wonderful recovery and in the few hours we were there we managed to get him on to an ambulance train — off to Myitkyina to be flown out to India . |
| 7 | Even the few hours she put in gave her life some purpose . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then if your idea turns out to be not as magnificently ingenious as when , in the dark hours you first thought of it , all is not lost . |
| 10 | ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac . |
| 11 | — despite both being besieged by jet-lag and the six hours it needed to complete their second rounds . |
| 12 | Some time in the early hours they had reached Madeira . |
| 13 | The remaining two and a half thousand , because they come in on very much slower methods , can take up to two to three hours to reach Bracknell , but by the end of the three hours we have all the information that was available at any given hour of the day . |
| 14 | As someone who made little enough progress beyond Youll Cup school tennis and county junior teams in 20 years , I remain to be convinced but I enjoyed the three hours I spent reading the book . |
| 15 | Sunday 5 April What they do n't understand , the tactical voters , the protest voters , the principled abstainers , the half-way house shilly-shalliers , the cynical sophisticates , is that , without a Labour government , millions of us are simply defenceless : not just the actually poor , but also the but-for-the-grace-of-Bevan-there-go-I potentially poor ; those of us who know that the gains of three generations can be undone in the three hours it would take to nod a Disabling Bill through a Lib-Con parliament . |
| 16 | Even in the worst hours she never gave any public impression that she was on the ropes . |
| 17 | Certainly if players such as Edberg , involved in the final stages of the Australian Open , felt even remotely like I did after the 31 hours it took me to arrive home from Melbourne before leaving on another seven hour journey to Bayonne less than 24 hours later , then it is no wonder that many of them are unable to do justice either to themselves or their countries in Davis Cup competition , as things stand . |
| 18 | One must pay tribute to her dedication , and the gratitude of all connected with the Club , past , present and future is her due for the patient hours she has obviously spent in researching club records , the Henley Standard and personal reminiscences of many people who have been associated with the Club 's story . |
| 19 | However , most people who join the industry feel that the interesting nature of the work and career opportunities more than compensate for the unusual hours they are expected to work . |
| 20 | I think that would defeat the object in small places because you can hear these diesel cars coming a hundred miles away , in the later hours you can |
| 21 | In the 17 hours they were missing after losing their way , they trudged the forest to keep up their body heat until they eventually reached a path with white arrows which led them to the edge of the forest . |
| 22 | The many hours we have spent playing , seeing , hearing whilst making these films have taught us a great deal . |
| 23 | The directors did n't work the long hours we did ! |
| 24 | The cause of Mr Hemingway 's ‘ uncharacteristic errors ’ — failing to see that the old wire was detached at the fuse end and insulated at the relay end — is attributed to the long hours he worked . |
| 25 | They testify to the long hours he has spent working under the eye of his father , Bob . |
| 26 | A junior hospital doctor was telling Virginia Bottomley of the long hours he worked in casualty . |
| 27 | But it did make a difference — she realized that in the long hours she lay awake thinking about it . |
| 28 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 29 | Louise Jermy 's health was permanently impaired by the long hours she spent helping her mother mangle clothes , and Kathleen Woodward recalled her mother 's bitter complaints about washing : ‘ Wash wash wash ; it 's like washing your guts away . |
| 30 | And there were so many new pressures — the long hours you worked , the way your parents disapproved of me , the problems I was having trying to get my own career off the ground . |