Example sentences of "[prep] ten [noun] [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 | ‘ His fees are steep enough to start with and two days out of ten means we 're losing twenty per cent of our course . ’ |
| 10 | In a period of ten years he recorded at least thirty proven cases of clairvoyance between himself , or his wife , and a horse . |
| 11 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 12 | ‘ Do you want me to oxygenate it for you ? in he asked , ‘ I know what I 'm doing , I 've kept fish for ten years.in He waited for my look of amazement at his expertise . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For ten minutes he becomes a wandering minstrel , illuminated by the bass-player following him with a torch from the stage . |
| 15 | For ten minutes I never saw my float as the fish cruised up and down . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For ten minutes I vomited elaborately , with steamhammer convulsions that I had no strength to resist or contain . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ For ten years we have sat and watched Diana being destroyed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 21 | For ten years it was The Apostles writ in eight point Univers ( Do n't call us — Production Ed ) |
| 22 | For ten years he had been her constant companion . |
| 23 | For ten years he had lived this lonely life , his heart full of sadness and his head full of dark dreams . |
| 24 | For ten years he combined his work at the hospital with a specialist practice in mental deficiency at Earlswood . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | For ten years she worked the streets — you know , giving head and hand at a dollar a dick . |
| 28 | For ten months she had watched it grow , had chosen the textures and colours of her own personality in which to clothe it . |
| 29 | For ten days they hid in the upper room . |
| 30 | 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 . |