Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a minute " in BNC.

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1 Go on with your maps for a minute she said to the second form who were glancing at one another in astonishment as they heard the noise from the first form room .
2 How about forgot about one of the pennies for a minute this one if we shared that out between two of us .
3 He sucked his teeth for a minute .
4 At this remove , the whole incident seems insane , but at the time it only proved once again what any driver has always known , that the constructors as a class are hard-nosed men with egos every bit as big as their drivers ' and that there is n't enough concern among them for driver welfare or safety to fuel a heart for a minute .
5 Oh I see I thought you were talking about toxophily for a minute .
6 Not even the threat of their own unemployment was enough to persuade Ossi consumers to buy ‘ home-grown ’ products for a minute longer than they had to .
7 The maximum you should pay is 48p for a minute ; I 've checked it and I can place a concisely worded advert in about 45 seconds , and at cheap rate that works out at 27p .
8 Having made this decision after a minute 's observation , not only amazed him , it also caused him to relax completely .
9 Visual fatigue can sometimes be lessened if the pupil looks away from a task briefly , or closes the eyes for a minute or two .
10 Kiah closed his eyes for a minute .
11 He closed his eyes for a minute .
12 Now , close your eyes for a minute while I get out of these . ’
13 I 'll just er put you beside this seat for a minute while I check this whatsit .
14 Have a seat for a minute .
15 Let's just take a break for a minute .
16 He was talking about the theatre and the writers he liked : Arden , Bond , Orton , Osborne , Wesker , each suffocated just by being in his mouth for a minute .
17 Outside he stood on the steps for a minute , surveying his city and sniffing the morning air .
18 She says , ‘ I 'll bring your duvet in a minute , ’ and she slips into her bedroom and shuts the door .
19 that he thinks that erm of all of these forced motivations class interest is the most damaging and he argues there 's a remedy for this , we 'll see why it 's a remedy in a minute , that certain people ought to be given more than one vote so that although everyone should have some votes , not everyone should have the same number of votes .
20 Tohou opened the scoring in the 11th minute when she beat goalkeeper Jo Thompson and after Mary Nevill had levelled with a penalty stroke within a minute , Tohou made the game safe with her second goal two minutes from time .
21 Oh we 're , we 're going to Sainsburys in a minute .
22 Erm so , there 's various methods , we 'll go into specific methods in a minute , but er , when you are passing data from one file to another , you ought to use passing and receiving areas .
23 At half-time it looked bad for Town but they came bouncing back with two goals in a minute
24 The blonde midfield ace scored two quickfire goals in a minute to rescue this opening Gold Cup tie for the Blues .
25 I 'll get you more tea in a minute . ’
26 I 've put the kettle on and then we 'll have another cup of tea in a minute .
27 No she , I 'll leave her for a , she 's gon na have , have her tea in a minute , she can have a bit after her tea .
28 I 'll make you a cup of tea in a minute .
29 Gon na have a cup of tea in a minute ?
30 I can get your tea in a minute .
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