Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] hours " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She 'll be all right for a few hours . |
| 2 | Despite this demonstration of his habitual need for normal sleep , even if only for a few hours a night , this same individual appeared on television a few years later , again claiming never to sleep . |
| 3 | Opportunities to relax and let her guard down , even if only for a few hours , had been rare . |
| 4 | We knew it was not true to life but it was a good way to escape our humdrum lives if only for a few hours . |
| 5 | The bulk of LIFFE 's trade is conducted by " open outcry " in pits , each of which is specific to a particular type of instrument which is traded in it only during the recognised hours laid down by the Exchange . |
| 6 | Volunteers usually act as ‘ sitters ’ caring for a client while the rest of the family is away , perhaps for a few hours for a weekly shopping trip . |
| 7 | Nine o'clock on the late show babysitting for me all this week , Adrian and then one o'clock till six o'clock during the early hours of Thursday the fifteenth of July , to keep you company , it 's Mark . |
| 8 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 9 | On subsequent nights it became more difficult to prevent REM sleep , especially in the early hours , and the number of wakenings necessary increased night by night until by the fifth and sixth nights subjects were hardly getting any sleep at all . |
| 10 | Police did not restore order until commanded to do so in the small hours of Aug. 27 by President Zhelyu Zhelev ( who had rushed back to Sofia from Varna , on the opposite side of the country ) . |
| 11 | The jeep driver was pleased at the opportunity to get away for a few hours and we set off about 3 p.m. , arriving in the area of the Highland Division a short time later , after following their divisional signs along the country lanes . |
| 12 | Fifteen miles north , they put into St Abbs haven , under the mighty headland of that name , just before dawn , and went ashore for a few hours ' rest in a hay barn . |
| 13 | She had travelled overnight all the way from Scotland , just for a few hours one Saturday . |
| 14 | Today she 's come to a pre admissions clinic just for a few hours . |
| 15 | Frequently the girls talked thus into the early hours — and usually in the comparatively small but cosy bedchamber allotted to Joan . |
| 16 | JOHN PEEL tinkers away into the small hours with only Loudon Wainwright III and Jacob 's Mouse for company . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the injection did not work and despite much medication to calm his heart , he passed away in the early hours of the morning . |
| 18 | It 's alleged the men , from Gorebridge and Dalkeith , drove the vehicle away in the early hours of Sunday morning without permission . |
| 19 | A neighbour raised the alarm after seeing the woman 's dog sitting in the road outside in the early hours . |
| 20 | 16–11- That he would contribute £50 and proposed that services should be held at Keills and Ballygrant alternately at the usual hours of public worship on the Sabbath . |
| 21 | Finishing the script , I would leave it for the typist and go home for a few hours ' nap until rehearsal time at two o'clock . |
| 22 | Go home for a few hours . |
| 23 | Unemployed members who had only two shillings a day came twelve miles by train to attend street corner meetings , or to undertake office duties , spent the surviving pennies on food , and walked home into the small hours of the morning in winter weather . |
| 24 | Sleeping lightly as always in the early hours , she had heard his key in the lock , his foot on the stairs , before drifting again into sleep . |
| 25 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 26 | Finally , if you do n't already have one , beg , borrow or buy a Swiss Army knife — with its corkscrew for wine bottles , bottle-opener for beer , can-opener for tins , knife to cut through the seal on metal whisky bottle-tops that revolve instead of snapping when you try to open them , screwdriver and wire-stripper for changing plugs ( and for removing insanity-inducing ticking clocks from the headboards of Stockholm hotel beds , etc ) , even a compass for navigating home in the small hours . |
| 27 | Dinah , accordingly , had champagne drunk out of her slipper , more champagne thrust upon her in a glass ; and was driven home in the small hours of the morning , after supper at a famous restaurant with three escorts ; Nathan Holland , the famous actor who played Macbeth , and her father . |
| 28 | Erm most were dozing as the minibus headed home in the small hours from the ni the school 's prom concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London , the impact as the Ford Transit driven by the teacher Emma Fry thirty five , ploughed into the back of a stationary motorway maintenance lorry |
| 29 | ‘ My eldest daughter Catherine 's behaviour became unacceptable to the family : she was always disappearing with these friends and coming home in the early hours . ’ |
| 30 | Joseph Shill returned home in the early hours of Sunday 21 December . |