Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken them only ten minutes to reach this far . |
| 2 | Cos high up , erm , I usually ten people before they reach |
| 3 | ‘ Jock ’ Barber left 261 Squadron on posting to A.H.Q. The last of the original Hurricane pilots still with the squadron , during his almost ten months of operations he had flown over 90 sorties , claimed three and one shared shot down and at least three damaged . |
| 4 | ‘ The euphoria of completion seems to last you about ten minutes . ’ |
| 5 | And a lot of the commercial ones charge you about ten pence a |
| 6 | Costs you about ten pound do it ? |
| 7 | just gets up to you about ten hours , right , next week in , from the heart . |
| 8 | I 'll have to write a wee note to say that I 've to come and get you about ten to twelve . |
| 9 | Now we start off I 'll ask you I give you about ten minutes that 's all it does n't take long . |
| 10 | Cos you just sit there and , do you think you can lend me some money , please , I promise I 'll pay you back , and they 'll all give you about ten P , some of them give you fifty , some of them give you twenty got about , I was thinking you could just go in there and save up for all your Christmas shopping could n't you ? |
| 11 | She was telling you , telling you again ten per cent |
| 12 | It took them nearly ten minutes to reach the top of the house . |
| 13 | It took me about ten days to work my way into it , after that I found it very acceptable . |
| 14 | Give me about ten minutes , then bring Isabel into the hall , will you ? ’ |
| 15 | Sadly , it only took me about ten seconds to think of this merry lot so I 've probably missed lots of good candidates … |
| 16 | Sadly , it only took me about ten seconds to think of this merry lot so I 've probably missed lots of good candidates … |
| 17 | okay cos they 'll all want some , they 'll all give me about ten P which is n't much |
| 18 | I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this . |
| 19 | A game I invented , and which is useful as children arrive , is to give them about ten or twelve cards . |
| 20 | There are two village greens ; both were levelled , and the pond was reclaimed on one of them about ten years ago . |
| 21 | Anybody whose ambitious at this point in time is taking a risk , in the last three years the world 's airlines have lost between them about ten billion U S dollars . |
| 22 | There must be some mistake , I saw him only ten days ago . |
| 23 | He 's practically crippled that oldest lad of his , and him not ten yet , and she wo n't have a word said against him . |
| 24 | So it was seven per cent that they were giving him not ten per cent ? |
| 25 | It had taken her nearly ten years to do so , ‘ as everyone said that we have enough societies in Bedford already ’ . |
| 26 | The snow was almost knee-deep ; it took him nearly ten minutes to reach the hedge at the other side of the field . |
| 27 | Married him about ten years ago , I believe . |
| 28 | Hugh will be accompanied by a 30-foot safety boat , and he is making the journey , which he estimates will take him about ten hours , in a standard sea kayak , and he is due in around 4.30 this afternoon . |
| 29 | Yeah , it only takes him about ten minutes to get home . |
| 30 | " Can I play ? " she said at last , after we 'd ignored her about ten minutes . |