Example sentences of "ten [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have told you about ten times I have not got a pen . |
| 2 | Ten times he went into Test battle with them , winning once in 1977 in a Lions ' jersey , and his experience and example will be crucial when the revamped , and increasingly successful , Gwent side meet the tourists in 13 days time . |
| 3 | We can the the constant is no problem we can always if we 've got ten times it five times it minus point six times it |
| 4 | Not content with the ten operations she has already had , Orlan is now looking for sponsors for her next operation . |
| 5 | In just over ten minutes they all sat down . |
| 6 | Within ten minutes they were seated on either side of Livesey 's desk , surrounded by files and account books . |
| 7 | A few teenagers refused to leave with the others , but after about ten minutes they joined the crowd in Guildhall Square where the recently revived DUAC was holding a teach-in . |
| 8 | After another ten minutes they had half a bucketful of the squirming delicacy . |
| 9 | Obviously , if they did n't shoot someone every ten minutes they got on edge . |
| 10 | So they reckon that after about ten minutes if people have n't been involved we have n't thrown out a question or something like that people start thinking about other things and there 's been actually a bit of er analytical research on this that shows that people think about three things after about ten minutes they just switch off . |
| 11 | you give them another ten minutes they 've got to make some banging to knock it round |
| 12 | After ten minutes we were hot and had to take off a few layers . |
| 13 | For five or ten minutes we were all rushing up and down passages and in and out of rooms , challenging each other and answering , ‘ Smee ? |
| 14 | My dear Paul , in ten minutes I am going to tell my board that I have become a convert to Catastrophe Theory . |
| 15 | For ten minutes I never saw my float as the fish cruised up and down . |
| 16 | After ten minutes I heard the camera motor stop as the film ran out , but the director , knowing by now we could n't use a foot of it , let the old boy run on until he had finished . |
| 17 | ‘ In ten minutes I have to leave . |
| 18 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 19 | In ten minutes I saw a summary of the whole butcher 's shop of war . |
| 20 | For ten minutes I vomited elaborately , with steamhammer convulsions that I had no strength to resist or contain . |
| 21 | ‘ In ten minutes I will be finished here . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll kill you now , ’ Woolley said flatly , ‘ and stick your fat body in my plane , and in ten minutes I 'll throw you out behind the German lines , unless you get me my booze and my scarves . ’ |
| 23 | and after about ten minutes I thought what the devil is she doing in there ! |
| 24 | Just this , tidying up about ten minutes I always fill the house up with junk ! |
| 25 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 26 | There 's one happening today in ten minutes I 've got a car waiting outside |
| 27 | In greater detail I could look at what kind of coverage we 've got , but I think in ten minutes I do n't have time to do that . |
| 28 | Alf , my friend asked the man if he could mend the chain and within ten minutes it was done . |
| 29 | But as this runs every ten minutes it 's not really a problem . |
| 30 | I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last . |