Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [num] hours [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I know enough about myself to know that as long as I get eight hours sleep I 'm alright ’ . |
| 2 | Linda and I spent two hours riding around Villa Maura later in the week trying to find the site . |
| 3 | I spent two hours responding to questions put to me by the Select Committee only a fortnight or so ago . |
| 4 | ‘ My mind was fixed on the tribunal most of the day , then I spent four hours travelling up for what I thought would be a place on the bench . |
| 5 | ‘ I was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital where I spent four hours having scans and the doctors said he seemed to be OK . |
| 6 | Nothing to do with me : in fact , I spent six hours fighting that decision in a totally futile meeting with Topaz and three top-level gorillas from Resource Deployment with cottonwool in their ears and Closed For Lunch signs on their brains . ’ |
| 7 | The final morning brought even more snow , so much so , that I spent 2 hours digging my car out . |
| 8 | the team was hoisted onto open trucks which took five hours to crawl the three mile distance from Lahore Airport to the Fortress Stadium with thousands and thousands of fans running alongside the procession . |
| 9 | On the following day , Franco took the salute at a victory parade which took five hours to pass the towering dais on which he stood , flanked by military officers , Party officials , Church dignitaries and government ministers . |
| 10 | I apologise to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department for being unable to attend at the start of the debate , due to the aggravated taking of British Rail , which took three hours to take me from York to the metropolis . |
| 11 | She spent five hours cuddling the baby as relatives made phone calls to spread the happy news . |
| 12 | CUSTOMERS who spent four hours haggling with a double glazing salesman may sue after beating him at his own game . |
| 13 | Too often the clinical teacher is looked upon as an interfering and critical representative of the school of nursing - and as one who takes three hours to teach a student how to take a blood pressure ! |
| 14 | On 9 December judgment was delivered by the Chief Justice who took five hours to review the case . |
| 15 | We got to the 18th and there 's Greg Norman and Jack Nicklaus , who took five hours to get round ; we 'd done it in less than four , had a bit of lunch and more practice in that time ! |
| 16 | Gerry , who had three hours to go , was below deck making a cup of tea . |
| 17 | ‘ You have twenty-four hours to return here with the money or phone it in . ’ |
| 18 | You have three hours to wait . |
| 19 | In total we spent 200 hours installing the equipment and ironically none of it was from my original system . |
| 20 | On 22 June , 1980 , I gave Bernie lunch at the Travellers Club , and we spent three hours recalling the Good Old Days of radio broadcasting with the CBC in Canada . |
| 21 | The fact of its presence was all I was going to learn , however , as it had revolving combination locks which were easy enough to undo , but only if one had two hours to spend on each lock , which I had n't . |
| 22 | Er er and that they sit two hours doing e and exam you know for somebody who can watch at all . |
| 23 | ( I have remembered for many years the patronne of a restaurant in the little Norman port of Barfleur who refused to cook artichokes for dinner that night — it was then 6.30 p.m. — on the grounds that they required two hours boiling . |
| 24 | They took 4½ hours to beat Chris Palmer , John Thurlbeck and John Leeman from the Co Durham club , Stanley , 19–11 . |
| 25 | They took five hours to get it out ; and there was a man in the next room who was not so lucky as I was . |
| 26 | Now they have 24 hours to leave . |
| 27 | Because they need twelve hours rest you know . |
| 28 | While there , he spent two hours outlining the new Japanese thinking to the Soviet president . |
| 29 | He spent two hours dying the jockstrap . |
| 30 | He gets eight hours sleep in three minutes . |