Example sentences of "[noun sg] [art] [det] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 2 | She thought of the moment a few hours earlier , before they had left for dinner , when he had taken her in his arms . |
| 3 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 4 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 5 | Newman recalled briefly his experience at The Nag 's Head a few hours before he ended up in hospital . |
| 6 | Mother and baby get to know each other a few hours after birth … but for some mothers its a felling they can not appreciate … |
| 7 | As they spoke , neither of them reminded each other of their passion a few hours earlier ; it was as if it had never happened . |
| 8 | They reached the lake a few hours later . |
| 9 | ‘ Especially when I was shutting myself away until two or three in the morning , so that I was absolutely certain that I was going to be able to go into the studio a few hours later and deliver something that was believable and complete . ’ |
| 10 | If possible , introduce the female a few hours before the male , so she can explore and settle in in peace and quiet . |
| 11 | Current holder of the European title , Griffin was only passed fit to box by the championship doctor a few hours before the action got under way . |
| 12 | Sometimes it 's worth going away for a while and letting her think she 's beaten you , and then coming back with the food a few hours later . |
| 13 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
| 14 | Said , ‘ I am not a very political politician , ’ and then proved it by singing ‘ My Darling Clementine ’ live on Irish TV a few hours after an IRA massacre . |
| 15 | ‘ You ordered me off your land a few hours ago . |
| 16 | It had something of the squeals of the boar beneath our house a few hours earlier , whose execution we had paid for , but declined to witness . |