Example sentences of "in [prep] ten " in BNC.
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1 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
2 | Allow lining paper to fully dry out ; time each pasting so the paste is allowed to soak in for ten minutes before hanging , and if you go over that time , make sure all sections soak for the same time . |
3 | Robinson was in for ten years for armed robbery , while his companion was half-way through a twelve-year stretch for a similar crime . |
4 | ‘ My best friend Gillian had given birth to her baby Laura in another hospital nine months before , and had been able to stay in for ten days . |
5 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
6 | Mr Hannis said he took two people in for ten weeks . |
7 | So you were in for ten minutes and rushed them out and out again then |
8 | so he said I 've had to , they 'd have to keep him in for ten days or more you know |
9 | If they got in before ten it cost only a pound . |
10 | Leeds fortunately got their act together and started passing the ball around and a couple of minutes later Forrester volleyed in from ten yards after good work on the right by Dave White . |
11 | But psychologically what happens is , eventually they say well , what 's the point of getting up in the morning , so they lie in till ten o'clock . |
12 | They 're not gon na be in , they 're gon na be in till ten . |
13 | But erm , now I get up at eight o'clock every morning , and this morning I slept in till ten , but that 's cos I was up till four , working on Thursday night . |
14 | It was just my luck to have bags made of light nylon , weighing in at ten kilos in total . |
15 | ‘ Your uncle , as you know , comes in at ten past twelve on the dot and Carrie a few minutes after , that is if she has n't stopped to gaze in the shops . |
16 | The same thing applied to winter , we were very short of work , but instead of you ever being on the dole again , er you went in at ten o'clock in the morning . |
17 | It 's going in at ten pounds for it . |
18 | It 's going in at ten pounds . |
19 | Are you going in at ten pounds and away . |
20 | Or they 're late if they come in at ten o'clock . |
21 | Oh God , he went in Sunday , Bill took him in at ten o'clock about sixteen mile here and sixteen mile back it is |
22 | Well tough he 's not getting my , he 's not getting the ensuite room , I can tell you If I if I have got three lodgers and I 'm getting on with them and they 're they 're paying me regularly for the sake of an extra twenty pounds or whatever and the annoyance from Tony coming in at ten a or there abouts and then sitting there like a stuffed frock waiting for me to leap about and put food on a plate and microwave it not doing it , Brenda ! |
23 | Getting in at ten to four . |
24 | You know , when I 'm not supposed to be out and I 'll come in at ten thirty when all the others and they do n't say anything . |
25 | Erm , she 's in at ten o'clock and she just does not stop until four o'clock . |
26 | But if you were n't in by ten the doors were locked . |
27 | You were there for four years and the they , they did n't just , if you were n't in by ten and you did n't get your proper night 's sleep then you would n't be any good on the wards the next morning . |
28 | He was in by ten , mind , time he 'd played Elsie and shouted at , flyer a line twenty six pound . |