Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [adj] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next week came , and we never got that half hour , so it must have added up a lot , all throughout the year . |
| 2 | Millie found this half hour soothing . |
| 3 | The Radio 2 Arts Programme devoted two whole hours to the singing of people who could not sing . |
| 4 | you got yo would have to take and hour or take two hours , or take three hours and if you take up to three hours or if you got three separate hours that was detention and if we were in our in the junior part of the school in the first three forms erm , you then had to go into school on Saturday morning . |
| 5 | Defeat became inevitable 24 hours earlier when the Progressive Democrats , junior members of Mr Reynolds ' coalition government , ended more than three years of partnership power . |
| 6 | In the afternoon ‘ individual sweep ’ , the unbelievable happened when John Mathews ( again Stoddards ) playing off 12 , scored a net 63 and tamed this four hour round course which had fast been gaining a ‘ killer ’ reputation . |
| 7 | Yeah we got , we got all four hours a night . |
| 8 | This too he was granted ; he spent another two hours with the Shah . |
| 9 | Reports of the pay freeze leaked out after the Cabinet spent another 4 hours trying to hold public spending to next year 's target of £244.5bn . |
| 10 | He then spent another three hours combining the ingredients in his kitchen while his wife Kate dressed the dining table and got the children to bed . |
| 11 | Due to his speech-impediment , he was mistaken for a German spy and was arrested and spent some uncomfortable hours in custody before being released . |
| 12 | We spent some 200 hours , in Committee and on the Floor of the House , spelling out the fact that the tax was unfair , unworkable and extremely expensive to administer . |
| 13 | Young and Willmott ( 1973 ) , for example , ( although they are generally trying to demonstrate the increasing symmetry of domestic relationships ) show that married men spent some ten hours per week on domestic tasks , compared with 23 hours for full-time and 35 hours for part-time employed women . |
| 14 | The foursome spent three fun-filled hours on the highland course at Ballater . |
| 15 | As children Kylie and sister Dannii spent many lost hours singing into their bedroom mirrors . |
| 16 | Accompanied by our daughter , I spent many happy hours helping there . |
| 17 | A few years later , mass produced model cars were commonplace , but thanks to Dad my friends and I spent many happy hours with the early version he produced in 1923 . |
| 18 | I never ceased to be amazed by its proportions and architecture and spent many happy hours during School holidays , sketching this wonderful building . |
| 19 | Annabelle 's late father , George , used to enjoy a game of football/a game of golf/fixing the car on Saturday afternoons , and we spent many happy hours together sailing/relaxing often accompanied by Steven . |
| 20 | I spent many happy hours on this beach . |
| 21 | Many years ago I spent several happy hours playing rugby against and with the London Irish and other Irish teams of both Catholics and Protestants . |
| 22 | He discussed the matter with the client at length — I observed two three-quarter hour meetings — and examined the documents for a loophole with great care . |
| 23 | She went back into the lounge and sat with Fritz , finding out how remarkably much they had in common , until they were joined by Rosa and other friends and spent two magical hours until , at 10.00 , she stood up . |
| 24 | In paper mills the base for wage calculation was a measure of output judged to occupy eight hours , but paper makers generally worked another four hours ' overtime . |
| 25 | If each employed man and woman worked one extra hour a day it would increase national production by over 7% . |
| 26 | Well not very much unless you made it yourself , you know , if you were , the factories used to have their own erm dances and the Embers , it used to be the Embers then , that 's the place in the Stow , they had danci , yes , they had dancing there and they put on competitions for different things and my son , with lots of others er , did erm a rock and roll thing which needed thirty six hours . |
| 27 | Now wearing five tanks , the final distance to Keld Head took some two hours , including a one hour decompression stop , calculated by the Aladin computers 100 metres from the entrance ! |
| 28 | After seven days of climbing up and down the cliff , we did manage to film the fox , amid thick flurries of snow , as it nosed among the nesting ledges , picking up leftovers — a sequence which will last about two minutes on the screen and took some 56 hours to film . |
| 29 | All that took some five hours for very little result . |
| 30 | The fried , woody chips , kept warm two hours in the oven , |