Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [det] minutes " in BNC.
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1 | It was doubly ironic for Coventry who in the previous few minutes had attacked with more conviction than at any time throughout the game . |
2 | I imagine that this would be a good finger exercise for resting concert pianists — after the first few minutes my digits were dead ! |
3 | For the first few minutes outside , I used the torch , until the blackness behind the dunes turned to a deep red . |
4 | In fact , after the first few minutes of wriggling and giggling , he began to enjoy it . |
5 | There are even techniques for mirroring the other person 's non-verbal behaviours for the first few minutes of meeting them , and then testing whether rapport has been established by changing your visual behaviours to see whether the other person will reciprocate by mirroring yours . |
6 | You will probably find that you perform very badly and feel dreadful for the first few minutes . |
7 | With minds on absent players 'Mere started cold and were lucky not to have given away a large margin within the first few minutes . |
8 | The first few minutes of the film were somehow missing , but he watched it through to the end . |
9 | And Cambridge almost wrapped up the game in the first few minutes of the second half but were denied by Oldham goalkeeper John Keeley , who pulled off an excellent save to push away a curling , 20-yard Chris Leadbetter free-kick , then fingertipped a header from Mick Heathcote on to the crossbar . |
10 | In the first few minutes of their greetings , the real purpose of Nora 's trip was forgotten by them both . |
11 | After the first few minutes the child is not going to learn any more from the experience and will either fall asleep , start to play , or get up to mischief in the room . |
12 | The strong-smelling ‘ stewed ’ strips of blanket were hot , and as I wrung out the excess water , I needed tongs to hold them for the first few minutes . |
13 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
14 | As it was , the first few minutes of the talk was written by Intel 's legal department cautioning that patent applications covered the material about to be discussed . |
15 | More bird song : willow warbler , wren , robin — all in the first few minutes . |
16 | ( If it 's too long to do this right through , view the first few minutes without sound . ) |
17 | You can not imagine what the first few minutes of that bombardment were like . |
18 | This part of Enfield has those yellow sodium lamps that have that delicate rosy glow for the first few minutes after they are switched on . |
19 | Anyone selling aluminium step ladders outside the Belfry could have made a fortune because after the first few minutes of the match , newcomers realised they could n't see the action on a flat course , unsympathetic to any onlooker less than six feet in height . |
20 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
21 | Only good thing was Dorigo ( apart from the first few minutes ) who played brill . |
22 | IN the first few minutes Armagh could have opened the scoring when Eugene Mullan was forced to pull off a string of good saves . |
23 | If we go back to the first few minutes , or maybe even the first few seconds , there must have been an incredibly high density of matter near that point ? |
24 | Properly installed — and full instructions accompany the Sleep-safe Smoke Alarm — a smoke detector will warn you of smouldering in the earliest stages of a fire and give you the vital few minutes that really could make the difference between death and survival . |
25 | Ipswich then enjoyed the final few minutes of a memorable league campaign . |
26 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
27 | I have n't noticed Reg writing much for the past few minutes , though . |
28 | And why raise the subject now , just when she wanted to get back to her own office to quell the bewildering inner turbulence which had disturbed the past few minutes ? |
29 | For the past few minutes she had not really been paying much attention to the direction and she looked round worriedly . |
30 | The extraordinary thing about the tenor of the right hon. Gentleman 's speech in the past few minutes is that once again he seeks to make out that this is not a very important problem and that we can push it away . |