Example sentences of "[adj] hours [prep] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight hours after admission he suddenly deteriorated , with severe respiratory distress and increasing left chest signs . |
| 2 | I took the coach , and after thirty-six hours of travelling I got down at Thornfield village , and almost ran across the fields in my hurry to see the well-known house again , and its owner . |
| 3 | After a few hours of embroidery I was free ; free to cycle wherever I liked with my friends . |
| 4 | In our first few hours of membership we are highly attuned to some of the assumptions . |
| 5 | Sometimes in the early hours of morning I 'd wake to hear her crying . |
| 6 | In the dark hours before dawn we crept up on our objectives and laid charges . |
| 7 | In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life . |
| 8 | After two or three hours at night I 've just started . |
| 9 | After many hours of travelling they passed a sign that read ‘ WE 'LL SOON BE AT PRAIL ’ . |
| 10 | In the frozen hours of dawn it all appeared rather benign , but on our return , some five weeks later , we were forced to run a sobering gauntlet . |
| 11 | Through the long slow hours of darkness he saw her lovely face and forgot that she did not love him . |
| 12 | Twenty four hours before admission she had had a transitional mole removed from her back under local anaesthesia in the outpatient department . |
| 13 | In winter rabbits are almost nocturnal in their feeding habits , but come summer and the shortened hours of darkness they are readily seen feeding in the evenings and at daybreak as well as at night . |
| 14 | Mr the headmaster has recently applied to Paul 's present local authority London Borough of Merton for a classroom assistant for Paul for thirty hours per week he does not know whether he will get that or a lesser number of hours or none at all , he was repeatedly , in my view quite rightly , extremely reluctant to express any view about what the outcome of his application maybe , but , rather force time is to which we have to guess , his guess was that ten hours might be afforded but he was at pains to emphasize that that was pure guess work . |
| 15 | After 24 hours of freedom I knew no one was going to lock me up again |
| 16 | After seven hours of talks it was announced that they had signed a peace agreement . |