Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] two hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he only wanted o one man , and it w if I allowed two hours . |
| 2 | Linda and I spent two hours riding around Villa Maura later in the week trying to find the site . |
| 3 | To be on the safe side I spent two hours in the drain , shivering for most of the second hour . |
| 4 | I spent two hours responding to questions put to me by the Select Committee only a fortnight or so ago . |
| 5 | I 've got to make allowances you see cos I 've got to fill the day f with jobs for the other lads , so if I allow two hours I 've got to fill the other six . |
| 6 | I do two hours |
| 7 | So I said Well no , I said Two hours it 's got to be otherwise you 'll never cover for that . |
| 8 | Some four and a half years ago when I was elected as a branch secretary of a fairly substantial branch in the Birmingham Region , I had two hours with the then finance officer and he said , well it did n't last the two hours , and he said er , well you know all there is to know now , about how to run this branch . |
| 9 | Before use , the trimmer must be fully charged , which takes two hours . |
| 10 | I hid the inch of yellow knitting , which represented two hours ' work , under my chair , tipped the lampshade to a more discreet angle , and called , " Come in . " |
| 11 | The meeting — which lasted two hours 50 minutes — was accompanied by the racket of workmen 's drills and hammers . |
| 12 | On Wednesdays or Saturdays you got two hours ( other days it was only thirty minutes ) so obviously everyone came on those days . |
| 13 | The ash-fall itself ceased two hours later . |
| 14 | You wasted two hours a day in and out and in and out of college . |
| 15 | On the stage you get two hours of release , which is very pleasant . |
| 16 | When she returned two hours later , pausing to unhitch her skirt , which had caught on the wire safety railing , she could hear Nathan cursing angrily . |
| 17 | An 81-year-old woman who collapsed two hours after a robber grabbed her handbag as she left the British Legion Club in Clapham , south London , was on a life-support machine at St Thomas 's Hospital yesterday with a suspected blood clot on the brain . |
| 18 | The old wooden case-clock at the foot of the stairs where Ellie was standing chimed the hour , as if to tell her she had two hours to herself before the ‘ broth ’ returned , and three and a quarter hours before her father did likewise . |
| 19 | A glamorous 20-year-old who spends two hours in front of the mirror each morning is unlikely to empathise with a working mother of three . |
| 20 | And you had two hours , fifty two minutes , right , so which is the next one , this one ? |
| 21 | If the new work is given to you in a lecture , you can assume that you require two hours of study for each hour of lecture — for reading of the subject before the lecture , and as a first review ( " within the first 24 hours ) . |
| 22 | Incidentally , you have two hours and forty-one minutes to launch . ’ |
| 23 | Erm , I also think that if you have two hours , a video and a talk would be better . |
| 24 | He took me to lunch at a discreetly ill-lit restaurant and then to an hotel on the Ile St Louis , where we passed two hours of the afternoon gratifying his fantasies . |
| 25 | The fact of its presence was all I was going to learn , however , as it had revolving combination locks which were easy enough to undo , but only if one had two hours to spend on each lock , which I had n't . |
| 26 | We had two hours kip yesterday did n't we Ed ? |
| 27 | The 53-year-old captain and his crew began their epic adventure to sail in the wake of Colummbus , at 8pm on Wednesday evening , but an injured crew member forced them to land two hours later 21 miles down the cost . |
| 28 | There followed two hours of arguments between protestors over what they should accept as sufficient for leaving . |
| 29 | Er er and that they sit two hours doing e and exam you know for somebody who can watch at all . |
| 30 | They returned two hours later , when the foreman addressed the hushed courtroom with their unanimous verdicts . |