Example sentences of "[prep] ten [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After ten minutes we were hot and had to take off a few layers . |
| 2 | He says , ‘ All right , 125 ’ ; and then after ten minutes he says , ‘ On your way , ’ so I got dressed and went out and thought , ‘ Now I 'm for it , ’ but I heard nothing more . |
| 3 | After ten minutes I heard the camera motor stop as the film ran out , but the director , knowing by now we could n't use a foot of it , let the old boy run on until he had finished . |
| 4 | After ten years I ‘ updated ’ to have weaving and a one-action lace carriage . |
| 5 | After ten years you have the choice of continuing to save or stopping contributions and letting the money grow . |
| 6 | There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun . |
| 7 | Disappointed , he returns to his rooms and consoles himself by looking through his collection of photographs of ten boys he has loved . |
| 8 | Over a period of ten days I spent a lot of energy and seemed to come through with colours flying . |
| 9 | In a period of ten years he recorded at least thirty proven cases of clairvoyance between himself , or his wife , and a horse . |
| 10 | For ten hours he watches the lovely squirrel lips , the high , paysanne cheekbones , the smoky eyes , the darkly glowing hair , the nervously crossed legs , the langoustine fingers , the half-risen , brioche breasts . |
| 11 | For ten minutes he becomes a wandering minstrel , illuminated by the bass-player following him with a torch from the stage . |
| 12 | For ten minutes I never saw my float as the fish cruised up and down . |
| 13 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 14 | For ten minutes I vomited elaborately , with steamhammer convulsions that I had no strength to resist or contain . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ For ten years we have sat and watched Diana being destroyed . |
| 16 | And on 15 May , the morning of the Maurice debate , he recorded : ‘ We proceeded thus : S.B. — ’ You know , PM , that for ten years we have been trying to catch you deviating by an inch from the strict path of veracity and pin you down . |
| 17 | ‘ For ten years I was a mason , carving ornaments for God 's holy churches — offering up the fruits of my labour to Him in Heaven who carved Man from Eden 's clay ! |
| 18 | For ten years it was The Apostles writ in eight point Univers ( Do n't call us — Production Ed ) |
| 19 | For ten years he had been her constant companion . |
| 20 | For ten years he had lived this lonely life , his heart full of sadness and his head full of dark dreams . |
| 21 | For ten years he combined his work at the hospital with a specialist practice in mental deficiency at Earlswood . |
| 22 | In 1858–9 he was in the service of the Admiralty , before returning to south Wales , where for ten years he was engineer-in-chief and general manager of the Sirhowy Tramroad , which he converted into a standard railway . |
| 23 | In 1923 he obtained two consultant posts as children 's physician , one at the Queen 's Hospital for Children , where for ten years he was in charge of the London county council rheumatic and heart clinic , and the other at Paddington Green Children 's Hospital , where he continued to work for nearly forty years . |
| 24 | For ten years she worked the streets — you know , giving head and hand at a dollar a dick . |
| 25 | For ten months she had watched it grow , had chosen the textures and colours of her own personality in which to clothe it . |
| 26 | For ten days they hid in the upper room . |
| 27 | to , to , I mean when I first had the er plaster off , which was for ten days it was , I could not believe it that these fingers were not going but I 'm told that that 's quite usual . |
| 28 | For ten days I spent all my spare time in a question-and-answer session till the experience started to confuse and hurt me , also — much to my horror — defile me . |
| 29 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 30 | for ten days she 's there |