Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | She spent five hours cuddling the baby as relatives made phone calls to spread the happy news . |
| 9 | ‘ You have twenty-four hours to return here with the money or phone it in . ’ |
| 10 | You have three hours to wait . |
| 11 | In total we spent 200 hours installing the equipment and ironically none of it was from my original system . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Er er and that they sit two hours doing e and exam you know for somebody who can watch at all . |
| 14 | ( 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 . |
| 15 | They took 4½ hours to beat Chris Palmer , John Thurlbeck and John Leeman from the Co Durham club , Stanley , 19–11 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now they have 24 hours to leave . |
| 18 | Because they need twelve hours rest you know . |
| 19 | While there , he spent two hours outlining the new Japanese thinking to the Soviet president . |
| 20 | He spent two hours dying the jockstrap . |
| 21 | He gets eight hours sleep in three minutes . |
| 22 | Mm , yeah , It takes four hours to get to Lanzarote . |
| 23 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 24 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
| 25 | No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ? |
| 26 | He took 17 hours to hatch at an ostrich farm at Weeton , Lancs — egged on by ranger Philip Bowness , who used an African trick of whistling to encourage him . |
| 27 | It took four hours to fix . |
| 28 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 29 | ‘ In the end , ’ he recalled , ‘ it took eighteen hours to cook and an hour-and-a-half to carve . |
| 30 | It took six hours to make . |