Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [det] seconds " in BNC.
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| 1 | I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night . |
| 2 | Doggedly she kept her head down over the jewel-coloured designs , trying to concentrate , but after another few seconds she gave up and laid down her pen with elaborate resignation . |
| 3 | It is important to take into consideration more than one eye-witness report of these few seconds ( and the Gaumont newsreel film ) in an effort to decide what did happen ; but no account or film can tell us exactly what Emily Davison 's motive was . |
| 4 | But even during those few seconds when he is changing he is on one horse or the other . |
| 5 | But he was n't , and during those few seconds while he 'd held her , she 'd had to admit this growing physical attraction she felt for him . |
| 6 | I just looked at her very quickly — I was so nervous — and in those few seconds she was gone . |
| 7 | In those few seconds I saw myself returned to Leeds like a misrouted parcel … |
| 8 | For a few seconds the lights at the Villa Fiesole failed entirely , and in those few seconds there was the sound of the back door being opened and footsteps in the passage . |
| 9 | In those few seconds Athelstan realised the depth of his own arrogance . |
| 10 | She could swear , that in those few seconds before the interruption , Fen had been as aware of her as she of him . |
| 11 | To her dismay , hot tears burned her eyes in frustration at the physical weakness that kept her kneeling in such a submissive attitude at his feet for several more seconds . |
| 12 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |