Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [num] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could you spare me five minutes before the lectures start ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Surely you can spare me ten minutes — say a quarter of an hour ? ’ |
| 3 | But , in changing direction , the hurricane had given them ten minutes of further respite . |
| 4 | Otherwise it is rather like spending several days journeying to a famous tourist site , but when we get there only allowing ourselves 20 minutes to see it . |
| 5 | It made my one minute I thought help ! |
| 6 | At 11.30 on saturday night ward staff discovered he was missing — they began a search and found him fifteen minutes later . |
| 7 | Sunil found him ten minutes ago . |
| 8 | Biasion 's puncture cost him two minutes and he ended the day two minutes and six seconds behind Fiorio . |
| 9 | It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae . |
| 10 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 11 | we could happily give them fifteen minutes that would take up forty five minutes |
| 12 | You could give them two minutes to check with their neighbours what they think has happened . |
| 13 | I 'll give them three minutes . |
| 14 | Phillips said : ‘ The bench told me two minutes , the referee seven minutes . |
| 15 | And I 'd only done them ten minutes before |
| 16 | ‘ Then before you do , will you give me five minutes of your time ? ’ |
| 17 | How can you , when you 've only met them five minutes ago ? |
| 18 | The famous film director from France could speak no English , and so Miranda was being sent to do the interview as well as provide the paper 's weekly caricature ; she had the address of the location , a newsagent 's in the High Street of a part of the city she had never heard mentioned before , Giblett Park , though she had lived in London most of her life ; the Press Office had said that he would give her ten minutes between takes , or more if she were lucky and the filming was going well and Jean-Claude Meursault was feeling mellow . |
| 19 | Or how about your every day football manager , suspect to the whims of ambitious chairmen and demands of football fans who hail you one minute and then call for your head if the glint of silverware is not on the horizon . |
| 20 | down all these Coronation Street type houses , and erm one of her friends was on the telephone the other night and er this chap draws up in the car and she says I , I wo n't be a minute , and he comes straight out of his car , he said I 'll give you one minute he said , I 'll drive my car and come back down that ro up back to the telephone box and he said if you ai n't gone by then he said I 'll smash your fucking face in , that 's exactly what he said to her . |
| 21 | We 'd say : ‘ Bugger off — we 'll give you five minutes . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll give you five minutes , ’ he said wearily . |
| 23 | Some screws were more lenient than others and you learned when you saw who came round to wake you up how much you had to hurry — whether it was one who 'd put you on report if you were one minute late or if they would give you five minutes ' grace . |
| 24 | I 'll give you five minutes breath of fresh air , alright ? |
| 25 | Yeah okay well I 'll I 'll try and give you five minutes before eleven o'clock so er so you can nip over to the video room or wherever it 's being played . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll give you fifteen minutes ; then I 'm coming back in , ’ he said , putting his head round the door just as she threw back the covers . |
| 27 | I 'll give you fifteen minutes . ’ |
| 28 | Again , some feedback on the flip chart erm let's give you fifteen minutes for that so it 's coming up to five past twenty past |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll give you two minutes . ’ |
| 30 | I 'll give you twenty minutes to get ready . ’ |