Example sentences of "hours [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent many hours hidden in the bushes , silently watching one pair of bulbuls make their nest from beginning to end . |
| 2 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 3 | But only last year she used to spend hours weeping on the floor of her flat because she thought her career was n't getting anywhere . |
| 4 | Yeah , that 's the whole thing , we 've gathered all the information now , we may 've been there an hour , hour an a half , maybe two hours depending upon the appointment so you go back to the office and work on a plan of attack . |
| 5 | Bush said that Iraq should designate military commanders to meet their coalition counterparts within the next 48 hours to arrange for the military aspects of the ceasefire . |
| 6 | Most people in both action and control groups were receiving home help ( and there was little difference in the mean number of hours received by the samples : 3.8 hours for the action group and 3.3 hours for the control group ) . |
| 7 | Through the desert with my family and through the perils of the desert and erm it took us about eight hours to go through the desert , which normally takes two hours , and it was very difficult . |
| 8 | With still hours to go before the match we had another little walk about , somehow we found ourselves on Park Lane . |
| 9 | Having loved Martha from the bottom of his heart , Sam now found that he loved his daughter every bit as much , and could hardly tear himself away from the cradle , where he would spend hours gazing at the fruit and blessing of the union . |
| 10 | The object is to establish the change in hours supply to the labour market ta ; H as a result of a change in wages δW , which , other things equal , generates an income effect ( y ) and a substitution effect ( s ) , as follows ( assuming that the only tax is the introduction of a proportional one on labour income and it is this that is causing the change in W : |
| 11 | ‘ In cases of multiple debt , we reckon on 12 hours to work through the inquiry , ’ she added . |
| 12 | Whenever we reached coral or shoal waters Thessy was forced to spend hours perched at the foremast 's |
| 13 | Karen reported the theft the police and the ranger , and spent hours driving around the roads looking for Tang . |
| 14 | As I say , fun , fun , fun I say , like I say sometimes you can do a pissing rain in a fucking hole and have about four hours sleep at the weekend , then we get , we get back get into the bar and we 'd have a fucking good laugh about it . |
| 15 | ‘ We got only two hours sleep on the mountain , ’ Grew said . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's probably had two hours sleep in the last seven months , but he does n't care . ’ |
| 17 | Just time for a few hours sleep before the early morning call in the biggest beds you have ever seen . |
| 18 | With some aggressive buying , the futures market maintained a hefty premium all day and after hours trading in the June Footsie contract suggested that market is all set to go better again today . |
| 19 | In Cumbria the average weekly hours claimed by the farmer was 77 . |
| 20 | television are obviously having trouble rousing experts to appear at ungodly hours to comment on the morning 's news . |
| 21 | Graham Brown , a 33-years-old farming contractor lay for nearly two hours trapped by the legs in a large field machine . |
| 22 | The killing can then be a long and slow process , and the animals often have to endure hours trapped in the midst of the bloody massacre of their family , awaiting their own agonising mutilation . |
| 23 | She was dead already , had been for not less than twelve hours according to the doc . ’ |
| 24 | Short now has 36 hours to reflect on the winning plan with his second , Grandmaster Lubosh Cavalek . |
| 25 | A Guardian stalwart made a telling observation about him : ‘ While Ian Wolldridge might spend hours searching for the good line , Hugh will spend the time searching for the truth ’ — and suddenly I saw McIlvanney almost as if he were a bare-knuckle fighter in one of his brother 's novels . |
| 26 | I remember spending hours looking at the cover of Deep Purple 's ‘ Machine Head ’ , looking at the little photos and thinking , ‘ He 's playing a Strat and he 's standing on a Vox amp ; right , that must be the sound . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ When we got there I drove round and round for hours looking for the hotel , ’ Markus said . |
| 28 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 29 | Just a few hours looking round the bastide and having a meal together . |
| 30 | Kylie would spend hours listening to the radio , singing or humming along the latest hits . |