Example sentences of "a hour they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an hour they were all ready and stood in the parlour looking humorously at each other in their best shirts of white linen and clean breeches . |
| 2 | For an hour they were outplayed by a recast side whose pace and touch , if not finishing , evoked uncomfortable echoes of England 's embarrassments in the European Championship . |
| 3 | In an hour they were 32 for 3 and that was clearly that , but now it was Gower 's turn for the heroics . |
| 4 | Which within half an hour they will not be , for I have them packaged and ready to be delivered into your hands to do with as you shall see fit . |
| 5 | Marr never stopped talking and enthusing and within an hour they were already writing songs together . |
| 6 | And for more than an hour they heard about the glory of steam and engines and old stations . |
| 7 | In less than half an hour they were all airborne and Rob was flying on his seventeenth raid over occupied Europe . |
| 8 | But the protesters were oumumbered and at the end of an hour they had been thrown out , some of them after suffering enough physical damage to require a visit to the casualty department of Hammersmith hospital . |
| 9 | For three quarters of an hour they stood there , and bitterly complained and rejoiced in rumours of police intervention , faintings , and thefts and then , slowly , the floor began to clear a little . |
| 10 | Grinning broadly the French boy led the way into the forest , and for a quarter of an hour they threaded through the trees following a narrow trail . |
| 11 | For half an hour they followed the telltale red blotches until finally they petered out in a glade surrounded by dense thickets of thorn and bamboo . |
| 12 | And on our way to the crocodile farm erm we past some beautiful countryside , and on the way back one of the two jeeps broke down and after an hour they decided we would have to leave it . |
| 13 | For half an hour they had lain in each other 's arms in the creaking guest-house bed , too scared with happiness to move . |
| 14 | In about an hour they 'd be forming lines in the lobby outside , but for now he had the buffet almost to himself . |
| 15 | In an hour they 'll be gone . ’ |
| 16 | And then for half an hour they make small talk . |
| 17 | For an hour they flew a repetitive zig-zag from their base to the Front and back , until Callaghan 's neck was stiff and his eyes ached ; but when he suddenly spotted an aircraft he wanted to shout the news . |
| 18 | In an hour they would be sailing again and most of the passengers , having dined , would now be watching one of the cabarets . |
| 19 | Nevertheless she followed him and for the next quarter of an hour they streaked up and down the pool . |
| 20 | For half an hour they talked over student days and student friends and then there was a long pause . |
| 21 | The pavements were wet when in under an hour they reached Karlovy Vary , but for the moment it had stopped raining . |
| 22 | And she ke , said yo when th , one day when there was , went out for play time quarter of an hour they rang the bell , she asked me to stop and help her with some papers . |
| 23 | Four pound an hour they pay their cashier ! |
| 24 | I fetch them all in , stick them on clothes horse , they 're all round fire while I 'm on lollipop and then nip to shop and when I come in within half an hour they were bone dry . |
| 25 | So Elizabeth told her everything that had happened today and after half an hour they decided to tell everyone what the they had done at the disco that night . |
| 26 | Yes it was yes , last sort of quarter of an hour they was pressing forward and you know , it always looks like you know , they 're going to nick it but , we held out . |