Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [art] hour [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For half an hour they followed the telltale red blotches until finally they petered out in a glade surrounded by dense thickets of thorn and bamboo . |
| 2 | For half an hour they had lain in each other 's arms in the creaking guest-house bed , too scared with happiness to move . |
| 3 | And then for half an hour they make small talk . |
| 4 | For half an hour they talked over student days and student friends and then there was a long pause . |
| 5 | ‘ For half an hour it was scary and now it seems funny , ’ says Gordon . |
| 6 | For half an hour he took tea and biscuits with them , and discussed the problems of weight reduction through additional use of gallium worked into plutonium . |
| 7 | The pain of returning circulation was violent , and for half an hour he bit his lips and clenched the muscles that still worked to keep himself from moaning . |
| 8 | For half an hour I thought that was the end of our career . |
| 9 | After skulking around for half an hour I spotted a kestrel in a tree nearby . |
| 10 | For half an hour she lay on the floor in pain before they finally left with a hoard of silverware . |
| 11 | But erm after I 'd choked for half an hour she went to sleep I eventually went back to sleep again and |
| 12 | So Elizabeth told her everything that had happened today and after half an hour they decided to tell everyone what the they had done at the disco that night . |
| 13 | After half an hour he went off to watch the match against the Chelsea of Ian Porterfied , his erstwhile colleague . |
| 14 | After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel . |
| 15 | He had got under her skin , and after half an hour she went home alone , not content with second-best . |
| 16 | After half an hour she had to admit defeat . |
| 17 | The wind came so swiftly that within half an hour we were reducing sail , taking water over the deck , and beginning to lumber into a building seaway . |
| 18 | Which within half an hour they will not be , for I have them packaged and ready to be delivered into your hands to do with as you shall see fit . |
| 19 | I fetch them all in , stick them on clothes horse , they 're all round fire while I 'm on lollipop and then nip to shop and when I come in within half an hour they were bone dry . |
| 20 | Within half an hour he was back at the library . |
| 21 | Within half an hour he had contacted those he trusted on the council and given a good account as to why he should fill the vacant seat . |
| 22 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 23 | The hotel staff were wonderful , coping with the unusual load with quiet , efficient speed and within half an hour I was installed , my possessions absorbed into cupboards and a free-standing rail supplied to accommodate my surplus clothes . |
| 24 | In half an hour we shall not be able to see our hands in front of our faces . |
| 25 | In half an hour we shall be riding north , victors . ’ |
| 26 | In half an hour she felt a lot better , but I knew now it would be my job to see her safely down to the hut . |
| 27 | In half an hour she was packed . |
| 28 | If it was something he had n't seen before , he 'd bend over it like it was a babby , and in half an hour he 'd know that machine inside out . ’ |
| 29 | First , I wanted to see the Castle of Zenda and in half an hour I had climbed the hill to it . |
| 30 | In half an hour I will ask you again about my brothers . ’ |