Example sentences of "[art] next hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adrian spent the next hour nursing his fist and repeating over and over and over again , I hit him , I hit him , at last I 've done something . |
| 2 | Others , mainly the girls , spent the next hour or so exercising the jaw muscles — until the great white chief shouted , ‘ OK ; time to get together ’ . |
| 3 | Such excellence threw the next hour into even sharper relief with two sides growing increasingly scrappy . |
| 4 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |
| 5 | Antennae keenly tuned by the hopes of lucrative business , the new director , Bernard Herdan , was quoted in the Independent on Sunday as looking forward to even greater wonders : ‘ The day is not too far distant when we will be able to tell the ordinary public whether it is going to rain in their street within the next hour . ’ |
| 6 | All Marr really knew was that Morrissey had written a book about The New York Dolls and was quite prepared to spend the next hour talking about them if nothing else was to stem from the meeting . |
| 7 | For the next hour we silently suffered their ribald comments and downright abuse . |
| 8 | For the next hour . |
| 9 | He left his office door opened and , for the next hour , treated her to a stunningly drab conversation about the searches on a leasehold flat in Esher . |
| 10 | The next hour passed amiably , by which time the two of them began to feel the effects of the day . |
| 11 | After all , they were going to live in a village they had never even seen , and during the next hour or so they would discover what manner of place their new home was . |
| 12 | He probably thought it was the gale that blasted his door open , but for the next hour he was busy dispensing more whisky than he would normally expect to sell in a week . |
| 13 | Well , she 's not going to jump out of the window in the next hour , is she ? |
| 14 | The street around the Stones ' house buzzed and crawled with police activity for the next hour . |
| 15 | For the next hour or two , Mr Handford tried to rectify the fault in the chilly darkness , but as it proved impossible , he decided to wait until daylight and to get some sleep meanwhile . |
| 16 | For the next hour , Matilda kept practising , and in the end she had managed , by the sheer power of her eyes , to lift the whole cigar clear off the table about six inches into the air and hold it there for about a minute . |
| 17 | They spend the next hour or so chatting before going in for lunch . |
| 18 | The oil appeared spasmodically for the next hour while three other patients came in . |
| 19 | he had immediately checked into the Shelbourne , one of Dublin 's premier hotels , and spent the next hour soaking himself in a bath , washing away the grime of the rough sea-crossing . |
| 20 | Then at 9.30 am. , when his secretary brings in his mail , he 'll decide how to spend the next hour and the rest of the day . |
| 21 | The unfortunate animal in question is incarcerated in a closed box which also contains a radioactive atom with a 50-50 chance of decaying in the next hour , emitting a y-ray in the process . |
| 22 | For the next hour or more his will be the voice in command of Doctor Who , the one charged with the responsibility of turning words on a printed script into cans of videotape to be seen , weeks later , by the audience at home . |
| 23 | Once home , float their bag(s) in the tank , and after twenty minutes or so add a little tank water , repeating the process over the next hour or so until the fish have adjusted ( if necessary ) to your tank water . |
| 24 | If they did n't feel like coming back you 'd have to wait till the next hour . |
| 25 | If you have forgotten this article within the next hour remember , please , just two things . |
| 26 | The next hour was taken up with rearranging assistant and duty managers ' rotas and trying without success to locate Stephen , who was looking at a remote beach-front site miles from English Harbour , where the estate agents were located . |
| 27 | If you 'd like to take those away with you will actually erm reinforce some of the things that I 'm going to say during the next hour . |
| 28 | And after he 'd gone , and Isobel had returned to the newsroom to file all the dead stories and check the agency printers for the next hour 's updates ready to hand over to Jim , the late-shift newsreader , it briefly crossed her mind that maybe , just maybe , a rising star of journalism with her eye on the national media might have asked a couple of more searching questions . |
| 29 | I 'll be in the library for the next hour or so , if there should be a message for me . ’ |
| 30 | As our papers were in English and not German , we spent the next hour or so being rejected , first at Gate One and then at Gate Six . |