Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , I bought a number of computer magazines which I read into the small hours each night . |
| 2 | Most days , I worked into the early hours , leaving little time to spend with Joan . |
| 3 | Certainly if players such as Edberg , involved in the final stages of the Australian Open , felt even remotely like I did after the 31 hours it took me to arrive home from Melbourne before leaving on another seven hour journey to Bayonne less than 24 hours later , then it is no wonder that many of them are unable to do justice either to themselves or their countries in Davis Cup competition , as things stand . |
| 4 | They would sit patiently either side of my word processor as I wrote into the small hours , purring appreciatively when I was pleased with myself , and opening their eyes enquiringly when I was not . |
| 5 | Just before they reach the flowering stage — earlier if you need the land for another crop — chop them down , allow them to wilt for a few hours then plough or dig them in . |
| 6 | The first organisms , which appear within a few hours of the pool forming , are bacteria , as well as tiny single celled plants and animals called algae and protozoa respectively . |
| 7 | Of the calls for which times were available ( and excluding the seven visits which occurred outside the claimable hours ) , 536 ( 33.8% ) were done between 2200 and 2300 between 0700 and 0800 ( SE proportion 0.0119 , 95% confidence interval 31.5% to 36.1% ) . |
| 8 | A policewoman discovered the blaze which occurred in the early hours of yesterday . |
| 9 | Police said the assault , which occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning at Chesnut House in St James Drive , Bootle , had been brutal and apparently without motive . |
| 10 | There 's also a general view in the community that community care itself is not necessarily really working very well , there 's some fears about it , some uncertainties and a member did mention , it may have been Jim you know or somebody mentioned about the seven hours domiciliary , from my experience as a councillor I am not sure that simply because that figure exists that that means that that is satisfying the need of those people and in any case the sort of people who need to go into residential care , who can no longer be maintained in their home , with whatever help we give them or with whatever help their family have to give them they 're not necessarily the sort of people who we 're talking about need to go in a home . |
| 11 | If you 're strongly allergic to any foods , you 'll know what they are , but if you get the occasional bout of nettle rash for no obvious reason or red , itchy patches which fade within a few hours , suspect a food allergy and think back to what you 've eaten during that day . |
| 12 | If you get the occasional bout of nettle rash for no obvious reason , or even red itchy patches , which fade within a few hours , suspect a food allergy , you have eaten in the past day . |
| 13 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 14 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
| 15 | The violence appears to been started by an offensive against the UDF by Zulu warlords which began in the early hours of Saturday morning . |
| 16 | Meanwhile figures for Oxfordshire 's council tax have also been set after a meeting which lasted into the early hours of this morning |
| 17 | When I first left home and lived on my own , I gorged myself on an endless round of late night parties and visits to newly-found friends which lasted until the early hours of the morning . |
| 18 | The astonishing image manipulation routines will have you drawing until the early hours , we have already used it to manipulate some of the pictures shown in this section . |
| 19 | There was little hope of falling asleep again ; there never was when she woke in the early hours . |
| 20 | You wake in the early hours ? |
| 21 | ‘ See it in its historical perspective , ’ Ellen comforted her husband when she returned in the small hours . |
| 22 | Instinct told her what that ‘ something ’ was and that night she talked until the small hours with her flatmates discussing what she should do . |
| 23 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 24 | How could one not admire a woman so clear as to her needs that she did not care whose flesh she carved her way through , who did not care whose sleep she shattered in the small hours of the dawn ? |
| 25 | Could you come for a few hours each day , do you think ? ’ |
| 26 | There she languished throughout the hot hours of the day , emerging each evening only when the workmen had departed . |
| 27 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 28 | We danced until the early hours of the morning when , exhausted , we all went together to a large bedroom and fell asleep . |
| 29 | We then all got into taxis and we went off to the Coconut Grove at the top half of Regent Street where we spent until the small hours of the morning . |
| 30 | We talked until the early hours , and consequently I overslept . |