Example sentences of "[prep] [num] minutes [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Livermore said : ‘ For 70 minutes he showed tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 2 | For eight minutes she struggled unsuccessfully , changing her posture , hammer grip and the position of the nut , while Ricci rested nearby , apparently just keeping an absent-minded eye on her daughter . |
| 3 | And then after fifty minutes you do the melt the |
| 4 | After eleven minutes it looked as though the changes would work , when John headed into the net from a centre by Hulme . |
| 5 | Again early in the second half he was just wide , but after 49 minutes he did succeed when not only did Wakefield collapse a scrum but they were also offside . |
| 6 | After 45 minutes they finally emerged from the storm under broken cloud , and then made good time to Rangoon . |
| 7 | After 45 minutes we felt a bit silly . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The captain fed us bits of information about decompression and what to do , and after 10 minutes we were told we were returning to Birmingham because of a shattered windscreen on the aircraft . |
| 9 | After ten minutes we were hot and had to take off a few layers . |
| 10 | He says , ‘ All right , 125 ’ ; and then after ten minutes he says , ‘ On your way , ’ so I got dressed and went out and thought , ‘ Now I 'm for it , ’ but I heard nothing more . |
| 11 | After ten minutes I heard the camera motor stop as the film ran out , but the director , knowing by now we could n't use a foot of it , let the old boy run on until he had finished . |
| 12 | After fifteen minutes he was crouched over tyre marks on the grass verge between the pavement and the road . |
| 13 | After five minutes they were well away from the school , chasing along the road , laughing and yelling as they pitched the ball back and forth between them . |
| 14 | I think erm Winston Churchill when he went for his Eton exam or the entrance exam to Eton or something and erm y'know they asked some question and he and he goes on and erm after five minutes he wrote his name , very neatly , right ? |
| 15 | ‘ I get so fed up on a train that after five minutes I 'm howling with boredom . |
| 16 | After five minutes she had no doubts — that was the man all right . |
| 17 | After 15 minutes we came to the comforting realisation that the phone had come unplugged from its socket . |
| 18 | After twenty minutes we returned to the ship , tired but amazed by our experience and looking forward to hoisting up anchor and heading for our next stop , St. Lucia . |
| 19 | After twenty minutes he was quite awake , and he suddenly noticed Mary 's face . |
| 20 | After two minutes I was showered with hot tea and a selection of cakes from the next door cubicle . |
| 21 | After two minutes I believe the butcher would have followed her out of the shop had she beckoned him . |
| 22 | ‘ For 10 minutes they attempted to engage Anthony in conversation before explicitly asking him to work for and provide information to them . |
| 23 | For 26 minutes we watch , until the finishing touches , the birds and tree , have been added to Cypress Point and the painting is complete . |
| 24 | By the end of 90 minutes I was close to the tosh school , but still buoyed up by the work 's genuine pleasures ; the unflagging force of its energy , the wit of its timing and the comic unlikeliness of some of its performers . |
| 25 | You 've to watch it for a maximum of three minutes you dad says . |
| 26 | It was not a pleasant situation to deal with in a sea like that , but Sam issued his orders quickly and with complete confidence : the sail was lowered , a new sheet bent on , a reef taken , and the sail rehoisted , so that within the space of five minutes they were on their way again , and the Gribbin was drawing abeam . |
| 27 | Mr Threlfall said : ‘ The standards we regularly achieve in County Durham exceed the national requirement of 19 minutes it is regularly 18 and a half minutes . ’ |
| 28 | For 35 minutes they actually dominated possession and position and Saracens seemed in a lot of trouble . |
| 29 | One bus the sixteen , but it 's like twenty minutes it 's like catching the bus from Moseley erm Village |
| 30 | For 20-30 minutes he fired at lunchtime diners with two large-capacity ammunition clip semi-automatic pistols , before finally killing himself . |