Example sentences of "was [verb] for [adj] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 2 | And loyalists claim a second inmate was blinded for 48 hours after riot squad prison officers turned high-powered hose on his face . |
| 3 | Another prisoner was blinded for 48 hours by power hoses , ’ he claimed . |
| 4 | Our start was delayed for twelve hours by a typical short but fierce blow from the south west which fell away during the night . |
| 5 | The funeral was delayed for three hours after members of Katherine 's family complained that the wrong grave had been opened for the ceremony . |
| 6 | The start was delayed for three hours partly because the bowlers ' run-ups were damp and partly because vandals , protesting about the omission of Deryck Murray , the local captain , had left wet patches on the pitch — and thrown a good few bottles around as well . |
| 7 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 8 | DARLINGTON Memorial Hospital managers are still investigating claims that a 90year-old woman was forgotten for three hours while waiting for an operation . |
| 9 | Theirs was a marriage blanc ; Harvey was occupied for eighteen hours a day at the Ministry of Transport where he was one of two Parliamentary Secretaries with responsibility for roads . |
| 10 | The Iraqi embassy in Brussels was occupied for several hours early on April 3 by Kurds protesting at the massacre of their people by Iraqi troops . |
| 11 | The driver Robert Bain was trapped for three hours . |
| 12 | Bile flow was collected for two hours after intraventricular injection . |
| 13 | At the midpoint of the ileum , 0.020 mmol of PABA-UDCA disulphate ( 15.0 mg ) or PABA-UDCA ( 10.0 mg ) in a slightly basic ( pH 7.5 ) aqueous solution was injected into the lumen , and bile was collected for three hours . |
| 14 | Monoclonal anti-CD68 or anti-L1 was applied for 20 hours on ethanol fixed sections , and both markers were visualised as described above with FITC fluorescence . |
| 15 | The eastbound carriageway of the M-Fifty motorway was closed for five hours following the accident . |
| 16 | And a 7-mile stretch of the eastbound carriageway of the M50 from Ross to Newent was closed for 5 hours until the wreckage was towed away . |
| 17 | On Wednesday 16th December , Oxford Street was closed for four hours following two bomb explosions , one of which had been planted in a toilet in John Lewis department store . |
| 18 | Three cars and a lorry were involved — The road was closed for several hours and diversions put into operation . |
| 19 | Newton Cap bridge on the A689 at Bishop Auckland was closed for several hours yesterday afternoon when a lorry shed its load . |
| 20 | It was to last for nine hours , spreading from the Olympic Stadium into the streets , houses and offices of Charlottenburg , before the riot police , with their armoured vehicles and water cannons , brought the whole thing under control . |
| 21 | I was to starve for thirty-six hours beforehand , take a powerful laxative and drink plenty of clear fluids ‘ including alcohol if you wish ’ . |
| 22 | She read it when her plane was grounded for four hours at JFK , as was inspired to pre-empt paperback rights . |
| 23 | PABA ( 100 mg ) dissolved in 20 ml of saline solution was administered to the anal side of the colon through the colostomy , and urinary excretion of PABA was mreasured for six hours after instillation . |
| 24 | Care was provided for several hours a day , and replaced most other community services . |
| 25 | After the procedure the patients were monitored for evidence of bleeding and prophylactic antibiotic ( cefotaxime ) was administered for 48 hours . |
| 26 | Hexamethonium ( 10 mg/kg ) or atropine ( 0.25 or 0.5 mg/kg ) was injected intravenously and fluid transport was followed for another hour . |
| 27 | The medium was then replaced with 4 ml of MEM containing 0.1 mg/ml nitroblue tetrazolium , and the specimen was cultured for one hour more with air or nitrogen saturation , without switching . |
| 28 | After her arrest , Mrs Mohammed-Holgate was detained for six hours . |
| 29 | " Your pal at the shipping office was n't hard to check on , because he 's been in our hands — no charge in the end , but he was detained for twenty-four hours while inquiries were made . |
| 30 | The debate was adjourned for two hours whilst Shamir , Peres and other party leaders travelled to Yosef 's Jerusalem home to discuss the proposal . |