Example sentences of "[noun pl] for [art] hour [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if you two charming ladies , and Herbert here , can persuade your betters to free you from the chains for an hour or two , we 're as good as on our way ! ’ |
| 2 | Each morning after the bathroom run , the three of us were let off the chains for an hour or so to exercise . |
| 3 | Four fire engines two from Granagetown and two from Middlesbrough fought the flames for an hour before the blaze was under control . |
| 4 | Next day a joyrider who drove his dad 's car 31 blocks for an hour and a half was locked up in a psychiatric hospital . |
| 5 | David and Julia and the other court personnel had been in their appointed seats for an hour and a half before the proceedings began . |
| 6 | After all , as Deborah Hutton , health editor of Vogue , put it : ‘ If you 're the sort of person who frowns , even if you do wear these things for an hour while you exercise , you 'll carry on frowning for the rest of the day after you 've taken them off . ’ |
| 7 | He studied the prints for an hour and identified forty non-human particles . |
| 8 | We drove round in circles for an hour and now we 're back in the Butcher Building . |
| 9 | The routine at Aubagne was the same every day ; we got up at 4.30 am , washed , shaved and paraded outside before a breakfast of coffee and bread in the main cookhouse ; then we cleaned the barrack rooms for an hour and paraded again at 7.30 am for the allocation of the day 's duties . |
| 10 | Surely I could forget my surroundings for an hour and a half . |
| 11 | One more pair of hands for an hour or two a week can be a godsend for this very worthwhile and rewarding ‘ back bone ’ work . |
| 12 | And so they sat with clammy hands for an hour and a half and let go only when the lights came back on . |
| 13 | Many 's the time I 've been about to introduce the top of the bill , when from behind the curtain the urgent whisper , ‘ He 's pissed — fill in while we sober him up , ’ has stopped me in my tracks and left me out there telling gags for an hour or more while the star is force-fed black coffee . |
| 14 | She clattered back to her office and pounded away at the audio letters for an hour and a half , broken only by a trip to the kitchen for coffee . |
| 15 | But to break us into this new er schooling the Headmaster had us in various mornings for an hour and was supposed , well tried , to make a sort of summary of what the lesson would have been in standard three . |