Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] 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 | I told no one , not even Méli , about my visit to Conchis , but I spent many hours conjecturing about the mysterious third person in the house . |
| 5 | My colleagues and I spent many hours discussing this issue , when we first sat down to decide how we were going to approach the running of our company . |
| 6 | I spent many hours hidden in the bushes , silently watching one pair of bulbuls make their nest from beginning to end . |
| 7 | Weeks passed , and I spent many hours studying Flint 's map and dreaming of treasure . |
| 8 | I did then go about the task Mr Farraday had set me with some dedication ; I spent many hours working on the staff plan , and at least as many hours again thinking about it as I went about other duties or as I lay awake after retiring . |
| 9 | I spent many hours working out patterns and ‘ staggering ’ rows so that they knitted correctly . |
| 10 | I spent many hours contemplating ( as we fishkeepers do ) the fact that I would like an extra pond to separate my goldfish from the Koi . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital where I spent four hours having scans and the doctors said he seemed to be OK . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | The final morning brought even more snow , so much so , that I spent 2 hours digging my car out . |
| 15 | She spent five hours cuddling the baby as relatives made phone calls to spread the happy news . |
| 16 | She spent many hours locked up alone in her cell . |
| 17 | ‘ You have twenty-four hours to return here with the money or phone it in . ’ |
| 18 | You have three hours to wait . |
| 19 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 20 | In total we spent 200 hours installing the equipment and ironically none of it was from my original system . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | " One night , " said Carter , " I started to thumb through its pages and I called my wife , Rosalyn , and I called my daughter , Amy , who climbed into my lap , and we spent several hours studying the beautiful history that this book portrays of Persian , of Iran , of its people … " |
| 23 | Now I do n't expect you to play like the pros because we spend many hours working on every aspect of our game . |
| 24 | Er er and that they sit two hours doing e and exam you know for somebody who can watch at all . |
| 25 | ( 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 . |
| 26 | They took 4½ hours to beat Chris Palmer , John Thurlbeck and John Leeman from the Co Durham club , Stanley , 19–11 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Describing themselves as ‘ full daycare playgroups ’ , they offer extended hours to cater for working parents . |
| 29 | Now they have 24 hours to leave . |
| 30 | Because they need twelve hours rest you know . |