Example sentences of "[verb] two hours " in BNC.
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1 | We may wait two hours in the cold or dark , but when the show starts , it 's a moment of magic , ’ says Gertrude Holle-Suppa , 44 , a veteran of 20 years on the circuit . |
2 | Some people were still trapped two hours later . |
3 | ‘ I would n't trust them to people who 've had a year to get ready and still manage to come two hours late . |
4 | At six o'clock , Clare again caught the bus to Pimlico , took Josh back to her basement , cooked his supper , cooked her supper ( increasingly , the same nursery food sufficed for both ) , put Josh to bed , had a drink , looked over any paperwork required by her solicitor , crawled into bed with a book , fell asleep after reading a page , and woke two hours later , unable to get back to sleep . |
5 | Double British Summer Time added two hours of daylight and the Luftwaffe needed the cover of darkness . |
6 | Breeze was on her way to Miss Martindale 's now , for the old lady had intercepted her in the lane the day before , to ask her if she would come and do two hours ' digging at tenpence an hour . |
7 | I thought you could only er do two hours ? |
8 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |
9 | Anyone who feels they can give two hours of their time in mornings or afternoons should contact Margaret Fusco at the Centre , 70 North Road , Belfast 0232 654366 . |
10 | Fashanu has carried the injury for a number of weeks and has had to endure two hours of daily stretching on a rack to ease the pain . |
11 | I , yeah , I do n't mind two hours on the motorway , it 's , it 's , it 's nothing at all . |
12 | So he only wanted o one man , and it w if I allowed two hours . |
13 | In fact , because of the immense size of the country , those in Melbourne can celebrate two hours earlier than everyone in Perth . |
14 | On non-school days children should not work any more than five hours if they are under 15 and on Sundays children can only work two hours . |
15 | ‘ He 's probably had two hours sleep in the last seven months , but he does n't care . ’ |
16 | Adding two hours to the period within which night visits may be claimed has caused a clear rise in claims , and this accounts for most , but not all , of the increase observed since the 1990 contract . |
17 | He keeps it that way with a fitness and beauty routine that includes two hours weight training , followed by half an hour on the sunbed to keep his skin golden brown . |
18 | Galliano showed two hours late , which could have ruined him , but fortunately did n't because the press loved him and his audience welcomed him back with loud approval after an absence of two seasons ( due to the lack of financial backing ) . |
19 | The Green Form scheme will provide two hours ' work by a solicitor on a case ( more with an extension ) , but the solicitor can not recover the cost of appearing before a tribunal to argue a case under this component of legal aid . |
20 | No not really Er yes already she 's already got two hours |
21 | Look you 've got two hours and you 've got twelve minutes , now what fraction of an hour is twelve minutes ? |
22 | Robert Lowell has transcribed Eliot 's account of another such meeting in his Notebook : " You speak , " he said , when he 'd talked two hours . |
23 | Half an hour later , her second son emerged , as strong and healthy as the first , and Pen Browning arrived two hours later to go into paroxysms of delight . |
24 | The train going west to Prague was empty and unheated , and arrived two hours late at a different station ; but the weather in Bohemia was a few days ahead of Olomouc and the capital was clear and bright . |
25 | When the recovery crew arrived two hours later they found the capsule was filling with water from the seven foot swell . |
26 | Bjaaland arrived two hours later , with two more men . |
27 | Every day , Meares started two hours after the ponies , and arrived two hours before them . |
28 | Hannele arrived two hours later . |
29 | The tension which had been building up since 7am when the 400 demonstrators began gathering , boiled over as the buses arrived two hours late . |
30 | On the stage you get two hours of release , which is very pleasant . |