Example sentences of "[pers pn] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another point to remember is that flowers will wilt badly , or even die , if they are left sitting in a hot car or office all day , so if you have to buy them hours before they will be pressed , put them in plenty of water as soon as possible or , better still , buy them on your way home and then they can be pressed fairly quickly . |
| 2 | See th this is what I 'm saying , you 'd done all them hours and then you was at it again on the weekend . |
| 3 | It would take them hours to deprogramme those instructions . |
| 4 | It would take them hours . |
| 5 | But erm and all sugar used to be packed in thick , very thick blue bags , heavy blue thick bags , and there 's an art in doing it as well in folding the the bag , I 've watched them hours and hours . |
| 6 | just working in the same room as him welding all them hours |
| 7 | depends what time I 'm back from you see I , I wan na try and get them hours in tomorrow |
| 8 | He began speaking as soon as he entered the lecture-room , which he generally did five minutes after me hour . |
| 9 | Of course we had no right to expect the life of the household , let alone the street , to be hushed because of us , but in the absence of quiet it took me hours to drift off . |
| 10 | " I bought a second-hand copy because it had been very usefully annotated , the notes alone will save me hours of work . " |
| 11 | Well once I 've got you know once I 've got the shape of the story in my mind I can it down in an hour or so every time you know it 's in long hand , then it takes me hours to type it but er you know the actual once I 've got the idea I I find it necessary to get it all down you know in long hand as quickly as possible . |
| 12 | Aye , she says what they 're getting Sheila , she said I 've just cut me hours down they , they were working thirty nine and they 've cut me down to thirty two , just like part-time thing , like you know |
| 13 | Creggan watched them hour after hour , envying their freedom in such a wide area , though a small ditch right round the pond prevented the ducks wandering too far from its edge . |
| 14 | Mind you hour and a half is plenty in n it ? |
| 15 | Basic discipline can save you hours of wasted time , preserve years of carefully built up data and give you peace of mind . |
| 16 | We 'll tell you all about it shortly when Roz has the book ready for publication , as it could save you hours spent trying to match the tension of patterns which have originally been knitted on different makes of machine to your own . |
| 17 | But they 'll also give you hours of pleasure just by being there . |
| 18 | However , since you have no doubt spent hours piecing this letter together ( must have taken you hours , my dear , to get all those words out ) — I 'll grudgingly acknowledge its existence . |
| 19 | DLT is a safe and powerful tool that will save you hours searching through files and directories looking for those unwanted files to delete . |
| 20 | With the old method it would take you hours looking through files , but with the computer you just push a button and it tells you right away . |
| 21 | it 's like when she asked her whether she would change her hours from half past nine to six to cover the office and said no I 'm quite happy doing what I 'm doing and could n't have coped with the confrontation you see . |
| 22 | Took him hours to clean it up and , since then , the pitch and tone have been all askew . |
| 23 | Yeah well we , if we go it 's gon na take us hour to get bloody down there and back on the bus in n it ? |
| 24 | The West ‘ gave us hours to survive , then days , then weeks and now they give us seasons , but they should learn from the time that has elapsed already ’ , he said . |
| 25 | This saved us hours of back-breaking work ( though we did lose some concrete in odd places ) . |
| 26 | Left us hours about four times . |