Example sentences of "[prep] ten [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After ten years I ‘ updated ’ to have weaving and a one-action lace carriage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Over a period of ten days I spent a lot of energy and seemed to come through with colours flying . |
| 5 | For ten minutes I never saw my float as the fish cruised up and down . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For ten minutes I vomited elaborately , with steamhammer convulsions that I had no strength to resist or contain . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have told you about ten times I have not got a pen . |
| 11 | ‘ I joined the refinery straight from university , never having been anywhere near the place before , and within ten weeks I was actually in charge of my own shift . |
| 12 | My dear Paul , in ten minutes I am going to tell my board that I have become a convert to Catastrophe Theory . |
| 13 | ‘ In ten minutes I have to leave . |
| 14 | In ten minutes I saw a summary of the whole butcher 's shop of war . |
| 15 | ‘ In ten minutes I will be finished here . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll kill you now , ’ Woolley said flatly , ‘ and stick your fat body in my plane , and in ten minutes I 'll throw you out behind the German lines , unless you get me my booze and my scarves . ’ |
| 17 | There 's one happening today in ten minutes I 've got a car waiting outside |
| 18 | In greater detail I could look at what kind of coverage we 've got , but I think in ten minutes I do n't have time to do that . |
| 19 | One that I look a lot more like the Prime Minister wearing my reading glasses than the Prime Minister actually looks like the Prime Minister and two , the hidden benefits of wearing your reading glasses , group , here , is that I ca n't see a thing over there and for the first time in ten years I 'm gon na enjoy delivering a speech . |
| 20 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 21 | Lot number one eleven one eleven chess board there 's the chess board thank you , a folding chess board for ten pounds at ten pounds I 'm offered , thank you , fifteen in front twenty at the back , twenty five in front going on , sir ? |