Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] ten [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times Beach unwittingly became contaminated ten years ago , when trucks sprayed the town 's unpaved streets with waste oil containing dioxin , an extremely toxic byproduct of a common herbicide . |
| 2 | One of the burglars called at the house in Calverton Road , telling the pensioner he 'd won ten pounds . |
| 3 | He 'd had ten hours in Spits . |
| 4 | She 'd spent ten days of a three month sentence in jail for allegedly hitting an eighty eight year old patient in her care . |
| 5 | She 'd spent ten days of a three month sentence in jail for allegedly hitting an eighty eight year old patient in her care . |
| 6 | Well , it had been some while since she 'd walked ten miles in one go — or even five , for that matter , she excused her fluttering heart . |
| 7 | She seemed to shed ten years in one second as she hollered , ‘ Oy , Richard ! ’ at the top of her voice across the car-park . |
| 8 | ‘ Even though I looked as though I 'd gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson ? ’ |
| 9 | Kenny Scharf belongs to a group of East Village artists which came to notice ten years ago and included Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat . |
| 10 | She 'd lasted ten days , long enough for Shaw to rush home on compassionate leave to be with her when she died . |
| 11 | ‘ Look , son , if it 's not about sex , how to convert your loft into a spare bedroom or a new diet guaranteed to lose ten pounds in two weeks , then this new magazine of yours wo n't sell . |
| 12 | The charity , the 26th April Foundation ( formed by those who had been involved in putting out the reactor fire and evacuating the immediate area ) , planned to send ten children for a month- long ‘ trial ’ visit . |
| 13 | Finally , Ebussu'ud Efendi also stipulated the number of students to whom each entitled office-holder in the learned profession might grant and though the numbers which he fixed are not reported , figures have been given above which comprise a partial list for the of 959 and 963 , while Ata'i gives another partial list for the of 973 , in which the kazaskers were each permitted to invest ten students as " the kadis of the three cities ' i.e. those of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ) five each , and " the other kadis of the throne " a term of uncertain application , but almost certainly comprising at least the other kadis mentioned in the decree of 963 ) three each : the figures for the kazaskers at least , and probably the others as well , applied down to Ata'i 's own day . |
| 14 | To provide some much-needed improvement the InterCity director decided to transfer ten HSTs to the Midland — five from the Great Western , two from the East Coast main line plus three which were part of the build for the Cross Country ( North East-South West ) routes . |
| 15 | I says er , so I said , started playing ten minutes , she could n't have got up the stairs and were back again ! |
| 16 | The first example of equipment redeployment came in 1982 when the then director ( Cyril Bleasdale ) , faced with a serious downturn on Great Western sub-sector services out of Paddington , decided to move ten HSTs to the Midland main line so that a badly needed improvement could be implemented on this potentially profitable and much neglected route . |
| 17 | I was pleased to hear that you managed to obtain ten sets of the papers and confirm that both Neil and Geoffrey Sinclair already have a set . |
| 18 | Bruno de Bayser attracted a lot of attention , albeit no buyer , for a magnificent FFr 1.2 million ( £123,700 ; $215,250 ) red chalk drawing of a young woman by Fragonard a deliberately eye catching piece to show what the gallery is capable of but did sell ten works including three female portraits by Dunker , Jeaurat and Quesnel for under FFr 100,000 ( £10,300 ; $18,000 ) . |
| 19 | But The Stars Bow Down , with its biblical theme of Joseph and his brethren , though published in 1939 had to wait ten years before it was performed at the Malvern festival . |
| 20 | The warmest reception from the audience went to Edward Williams , a hill farmer from Gwynedd whose personal radiation measurement in the aftermath of Chernobyl had registered ten times the normal level . |
| 21 | Twelve pence , she reckoned ; perhaps if I had given ten pence to the beggar this would not have happened . |
| 22 | We had to go ten years before we got our first increment of 2/6d . |
| 23 | By the following month , furthermore , Reagan 's rating had dropped ten points , where it broadly stayed during the next three months while the administration successfully defended its budget-cutting package and won a stunning endorsement of the tax reduction measure . |
| 24 | He had shed ten years . |
| 25 | Daisy 's face above the frayed collar of her old black coat had shed ten years . |
| 26 | Her mother had shed ten years since her marriage to Douglas , and after all the years of struggle had learned to laugh again . |
| 27 | Pumlumon seemed to have got himself quite well into the enchantment now ; he was looking much less worried than he had looked ten minutes earlier . |
| 28 | Even when she passed the two-furlong pole , some five lengths off the leaders , she knew she had them ; but if the post had come ten yards earlier , she would never have got up . |
| 29 | His immediate superior and his superintendent had departed ten minutes before for a conference at Lewes and he was more than somewhat at a loss . |
| 30 | The young lady doctor had said ten minutes , but they must have been here twenty . |