Example sentences of "[verb] [num] minute [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each was given 30 minutes to solve the problems they were set . |
| 2 | When the time arrives , the proposer has 10 minutes to speak in favour of his Bill and an opposer may speak for 10 minutes against it . |
| 3 | Arms out in front of him , Henry ran up the stairs , thinking , as he ran — She has three minutes to live . |
| 4 | The player chosen has three minutes to think of as many words as possible beginning with that letter . |
| 5 | She let five minutes pass , then followed slowly . |
| 6 | Say twenty minutes to transfer the men and cargo ; two hours to the mainland and a further half-hour to reach the upriver disembarkation point . |
| 7 | Say four minutes to recross the river , two hundred yards of drift . |
| 8 | The first time you try it you 'll find it difficult to keep the nose planted that far down , Stuka-like ; but remember , starting at FL 300 even at that rate you 'll need two minutes to get down to breathing levels , which encourages a firm push on the yoke . |
| 9 | We were given 10 minutes to prepare , then had to give an interview of 2 minutes . |
| 10 | For example if your speed is 90 kt and the chart says 2 minutes outbound you will plan to fly 5 nm , ie 2 minutes at 150 kt . |
| 11 | It was nearly six o'clock , and we 'd got forty minutes to wait . |
| 12 | Come on you 've only got ten minutes to go ! |
| 13 | You 've got ten minutes to see who 's one dropped |
| 14 | Now just having a little look in the paper here today and er well oh the Mary Whitehouse saga continues by the way we are absolutely determined to get her on before the end of the show we 've got ten minutes left . |
| 15 | I mean you could forget this list that I gave th b that gave you , unless there 's anything on it that is still relevant , but find the things yourself on that topic so that on Thursday Next Thursday you can each spend ten minutes talking about things which you 've read in your topic specifically . |
| 16 | He 's actually been out of his armchair today long enough to erm , spend ten minutes putting a washer on the hand basin in the loo . |
| 17 | In short answers unless it is crying out for a diagram do n't bother because you 'll spend five minutes drawing the diagram , labelling it , explaining what D P and D S means and it just wo n't work it definition , application , measurement problems , contention , |
| 18 | Well that was fourteen minutes so you 've got fifteen minutes to ask questions of John , and it would help , I think , if you want to ask a question , to stand up and say who you are and where you come from , which constituency . |
| 19 | We 've got fifteen minutes to watch James Bond |
| 20 | Always re bear in mind , that whenever you do a short answer question , right , you 've only got fifteen minutes to do it in . |
| 21 | but they 're not in control of their body , so you must watch them , talk to them and if , if you can walk along the road with them , talking to them now the , there is the other type where you get the aura , they know they 're going to have a fit , so if somebody at your work place comes along and says to you I 'm gon na have a fit in five minutes , I mean do n't laugh at them and think ha ha , take them to a room where they 're safe and this applies to all epileptic fits , they 've got to be safe , so you 're going to clear a room of any danger , they 're laying down on the floor theirself because they 've got time they know they 're going to have this fit , if they 've got something to put in their mouth alright they will put it in their mouths themselves and once again they 've got five minutes to do it in and then that person will go through their fit , you stay with them , you comply by their wishes , if they say to you right , well just leave me when I come round I , do n't touch me I 'll be alright , they know , so you , you comply by their wish wishes , erm but only go in when you feel it is necessary , if they say right , erm I , I should regain consciousness in ten minutes and they have n't , you 're there , you stay there in case make sure they 're safe , there 's nothing there that can hurt them , then they 'll probably get up at the end of the fit and erm go into a room for a rest and say thank you very much and er , erm that 's it . |
| 22 | And you 've got five minutes to do both . |
| 23 | Well , when you 've got five minutes come and knock 's door . |
| 24 | ‘ Have you got five minutes to spare ? |
| 25 | Trish I 've got a patient for you Trish if you 've got five minutes to spare please . |
| 26 | Got five minutes left . |
| 27 | We 've g we 've got five minutes have n't we ? |
| 28 | The Angel of Death looks in and he says : ‘ You 've got five minutes to get your clean nightdress on , and arrange your effects , and put the cat out , and tear up that compromising letter , and then I 'll be back for you . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah , at the beginning was when sort of got twenty minutes left to do it erm we were fine there and I think it was the beginning part was and then we started panicking then like sort of after that you said oh do you want five minutes or more and we all sort of looked at each other you know and we did n't feel that we had enough time erm so we just sort of really |
| 30 | ‘ We 've got four minutes left . |