Example sentences of "[noun] a few minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came back out onto the terrace a few minutes later . |
| 2 | His body had now completely relaxed after his frantic efforts with Molly a few minutes before . |
| 3 | Amused speculation on whether the new vicar could really be casting lustful glances at the choir-mistress produced an effective antidote to the emotional tension a few minutes earlier . |
| 4 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 5 | He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre . |
| 6 | Welcome back.In a few minutes , we 'll be going inside the Highgrove Estate , for a look at Prince Charles 's garden . |
| 7 | She could look back down on her twenty-two years and see a tall handsome man , and she recalled his words a few minutes ago , ‘ Sorrow does n't last . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 9 | After that very public proposal a few minutes ’ privacy are definitely called for . ’ |
| 10 | We discussed the administration of the hospital , especially the shift times of the nurses , to allow Frank a few minutes alone with Salome . |
| 11 | Black pepper is a proper and good inclusion , because stirring it in to a hot dish a few minutes before serving releases wonderful flavour . |
| 12 | Dexter smiled to himself , recalling his thoughts in the corridor a few minutes before . |
| 13 | But he 'd only been inside the place a few minutes . |
| 14 | The crash of torrential rain a few minutes later set minds at rest . |
| 15 | A woman friend saw her driving out of town a few minutes later ; after that she just vanished into thin air . |
| 16 | They found their spaceship a few minutes later , and soon they were ready to leave the planet . |
| 17 | I had three questions on this point a few minutes ago . |
| 18 | Sycorax no longer leaked whatever liquids or foods she was able to consume , as she had during the worst of her fever , and Ariel could prop her up into a sitting position , and then , presenting her shoulders to her , go down on one knee to hoist her piggy-back and carry her to the privy in the forest a few minutes ' walk away . |
| 19 | He had learned from watching Rupert a few minutes before that the quicker you answered the quicker you were released . |
| 20 | ‘ Your uncle , as you know , comes in at ten past twelve on the dot and Carrie a few minutes after , that is if she has n't stopped to gaze in the shops . |
| 21 | Something had , at any rate , when she returned to the dining room a few minutes later . |
| 22 | He ran into the room a few minutes later and began to tear off his crumpled clothes . |
| 23 | ‘ How kind of you , ’ she said , balancing nicely on the edge of irony , in case a few minutes more of this should see him running out of line to shoot , and make it desirable to jettison him , ‘ how kind of you to tell me all about it ! ’ |
| 24 | They left Riverboat Island a few minutes later , walked over the wide bridge in silence . |
| 25 | ‘ Even know you tried to pay back the last five shillings a few minutes before my father went to the synagogue one Saturday . |
| 26 | Three of her friends — also nurses — had taken the same route a few minutes before . |
| 27 | Her Dutch cleaning lady would be coming round in the morning — let her do it , thought an exhausted Olga a few minutes later , as she shakily bathed her face under the cold tap ; Boyd could darn well pay her more housekeeping to cover the extra hours of work . |
| 28 | It mattered not that Underwood repaid in kind a few minutes later — the damage had been done . |
| 29 | The car Clock had stopped at 11 o'clock , her watch a few minutes after . |
| 30 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |