Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] seconds " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Damiani said nothing for several seconds after finishing his narrative but he opened up a battered suitcase and produced from it his old pale brown British Palestine passport and opened the document on page six . |
| 2 | Fine , can you bear with me for five seconds while I 'll just make a phone call ? |
| 3 | She looked at me for several seconds without speaking , and then said , ‘ Well , Molly , we all think you treat life as a joke ! ’ |
| 4 | The explosion , the worst in Turkish mining history , appeared to have been caused by the ignition of methane gas , which in 20 seconds had reached dangerous levels inside the mine , apparently foiling a sophisticated alarm system . |
| 5 | And you can do a lot in fifteen seconds , you could murder somebody in fifteen seconds . |
| 6 | In fact , the shooting took place in the dark and none of the witnesses arrived on the scene for something like ten seconds . |
| 7 | The duration of the nadir could only be graded into coarse divisions of less than one second , one to two seconds , or more than two seconds as the paper speed at which the recordings were made did not allow greater accuracy . |
| 8 | Eighty two per cent lasted less than one second , 16% were one to two seconds , and 2% were more than two seconds in duration . |
| 9 | It 's says rule of thumb that eye contact is one to three seconds per person |
| 10 | Always the rear one lagged behind the front one by 22 seconds . |
| 11 | I want you to move to another booth and call me in forty seconds on this number . |
| 12 | Whitley scored eight goals in a row , three of them in 61 seconds , to win 9–6 . |
| 13 | On another occasion , having been introduced to a pop personality at a cocktail party , his name — it was then not as celebrated outside his own world as it is now had left me within five seconds . |
| 14 | When she looked back at Mick she allowed her gaze to rest on him for some seconds before she answered , ‘ Of course I know who it is . |
| 15 | Her face was on a level with his ; she stared at him for some seconds before she said quietly , ‘ You need n't be concerned that you might have started something ; I 've got no ideas that way . |
| 16 | She stared confusedly at him for several seconds , then lowered her head , gazing into the glass she was holding . |
| 17 | He glared down at her for eternal seconds and then his mouth descended and Robyn felt the anger and fire , still there , but focused this time in the searing heat of his kiss , the grip of his embrace , the rough glory as his hands roamed her body , conjuring desire and need out of nowhere , moulding her to him , showing Robyn just how much she wanted him , how much he desired her . |
| 18 | He watched her for several seconds before the casual motion of a hand raised to the back of her neck and run up through her long hair identified the silhouette as Judith . |
| 19 | He stared at her for several seconds as if he could not remember who she was . |
| 20 | He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled . |
| 21 | " I 'm awake , " she told him when he had been standing in silence beside her for some seconds . |
| 22 | Brown told him in thirty seconds . |
| 23 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 24 | To take your pulse all you need to do is to count it for 10 seconds and then multiply by 6 . |
| 25 | Remember , each of the above exercises is immediately preceded by taking a deep breath , creating tension , and holding it for five seconds , then exhaling while letting go the tension and saying the word ‘ relax ’ to yourself . |
| 26 | He dipped the flannel in the water and bathed the swollen joint not once but many times , leaving the flannel wrapped around it for long seconds each time . |
| 27 | She made it with thirty seconds to spare . |
| 28 | Ben was after his tenth clocking under 10.10 in one season , achieving it with 10.06 seconds . |
| 29 | And they do it in five seconds now ! ’ |
| 30 | We will run it in 27 seconds . |