Example sentences of "ten [noun] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd only been in Monty 's poky little office for ten minutes and already he had given me two priceless lessons in my future profession — to make sure I dressed properly , and never be afraid to ask the question " Why ? " |
| 2 | Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats ! |
| 3 | so you owe me ten minutes and normally when you come into my room you say I 'm sorry I 'm late . |
| 4 | Boil for ten minutes and then leave the pan to cool . |
| 5 | If there are 38 of them on the line , 38 go together for ten minutes and then , of course , the line stops . |
| 6 | They could hardly have been more different from the swaggering louts of the Hotel Olympik who would chatter among themselves for ten minutes and then saunter towards one as much out of boredom as anything else . |
| 7 | I sat there for about ten minutes and then I came out . |
| 8 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 9 | I waited another ten minutes and then the ritual was repeated , a different man , another office . |
| 10 | She waited about ten minutes and then left . ’ . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 12 | Alright , stay for ten minutes and then , can come back . |
| 13 | They 'll be dead in ten minutes and so are we if we do n't get out by then . ’ |
| 14 | Come on Laura , get your coat on we 're going away in about ten minutes as well . |
| 15 | After ten minutes or so it seemed to end satisfactorily . |
| 16 | He had paid three pence at the booking office for his ticket and , after waiting ten minutes or so on the cold and draughty platform for the next London-bound train , he had arrived at Christchurch some ten minutes later to run through torrential rain toward the group of cottages which flanked the open park in the town centre . |
| 17 | Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness . |
| 18 | If teachers and the head are in the playground for five minutes or so before the bell and if parents know that they will be welcome in classrooms for ten minutes or so at the end of both morning and afternoon sessions then good routines will be established and easily maintained . |
| 19 | And that 's why it may be a good ten minutes or so before a man can lift a finger ( if you 'll forgive the phrase ) . |
| 20 | ( Well , all right , I 'll allow you to be a bit bleary-eyed for ten minutes or so . ) |
| 21 | Very often I sit in my chair for ten minutes or so as soon as I arrive at the water , just relaxing and taking in everything around me , appreciating my surroundings and thinking about what I am going to do . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , after ten minutes or so my hand on Karen 's knee was starting to feel like one lump of meat resting on another . |
| 23 | The final ten minutes or so of the session will be spent discussing what has arisen , how the patient feels about it , and the way future treatment is likely to proceed . |
| 24 | Stage lengths vary from about ten minutes or so inter-island to 45–50 minutes on the Alderney-Southampton run . |
| 25 | There were no lavatories on the station , or only filthy ones , so she and I chased down the line and out to the fields every ten minutes or so — poor Mig , she was so good and patient . |
| 26 | For the first few days , Dawn would pull at the jesses with her beak every ten minutes or so . |
| 27 | Another pull for ten minutes or so brought me up on to the summit , where I sat down to have my lunch . |
| 28 | After ten minutes or so , the couple finished their drinks and left . |
| 29 | " She never stays more than ten minutes or so , then she 's off . " |
| 30 | In a minute he would go and run a hot bath , luxuriate in it for ten minutes or so , and then get his head down . |