Example sentences of "and [prep] an hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | and for an hour at least she sits and teases |
| 2 | bedsit and after an hour and a half |
| 3 | Willie was given a small spade and after an hour of removing a tiny section of earth he began to forget that he was surrounded by strangers and gradually became absorbed in his digging . |
| 4 | At the studio it becomes apparent that it will not be appropriate to being a class here , and after an hour we leave . |
| 5 | Gower settled in , and after an hour , square-cut Aqib juicily for his fourth four , only then to under-edge a cut and rather unluckily play on . |
| 6 | Well I was n't that nervous , but er I had a go and after an hour or so I got quite confident on me own then . |
| 7 | And on our way to the crocodile farm erm we past some beautiful countryside , and on the way back one of the two jeeps broke down and after an hour they decided we would have to leave it . |
| 8 | It was a smell he had come to associate with Auguste Didier 's kitchens , and after an hour in Naseby 's company , it was all the more welcome . |
| 9 | We pressed on down the Gulf and after an hour or so my radio lad in the back gave me a chit — " The Argosy has been found , return to Bahrain " — and so , led by the squadron commander , John A. MacDonald commanding No 55 at that time , we were led back to Bahrain . |
| 10 | That afternoon the convener communicated his version of the story to the shop steward 's committee and within an hour every department was buzzing with the news . |
| 11 | Marr never stopped talking and enthusing and within an hour they were already writing songs together . |
| 12 | We were made welcome by the teachers , provided with a floor to sleep on , and within an hour had set off into the forest to look for wild cocoa . |
| 13 | The verderers had horses and within an hour or so could be carrying him back to some village outside the forest where he would have attention . |
| 14 | And within an hour or so there can be thousands of toads on the surface of the desert . |
| 15 | Juan quickly established that Avila was nowhere near the rescue base ( had we followed the consul 's directions we would have ended up three hours away ) and within an hour he was driving us into the heart of the Sierra de Gredos . |
| 16 | It had taken her four years to meet him and within an hour it was all over . |
| 17 | And within an hour of the final whistle the police operation is called off . |
| 18 | Fourteen healthy adult subjects then collected urine specimens before and within an hour after their normal breakfast , to assess the fall in urine acid output accompanying the first meal of the day . |
| 19 | The sun was getting low over the sea and in an hour or so it would dip below the horizon , where there were horizontal bars of dark colour . |
| 20 | This was for the convenience of the Bishop 's barge and any other vessels to land , and where the Bishop might take his barge at any time and in an hour reach his Cathedral . |