Example sentences of "[noun sg] a few minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came back out onto the terrace a few minutes later . |
| 2 | Amused speculation on whether the new vicar could really be casting lustful glances at the choir-mistress produced an effective antidote to the emotional tension a few minutes earlier . |
| 3 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 4 | He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 6 | After that very public proposal a few minutes ’ privacy are definitely called for . ’ |
| 7 | Black pepper is a proper and good inclusion , because stirring it in to a hot dish a few minutes before serving releases wonderful flavour . |
| 8 | Dexter smiled to himself , recalling his thoughts in the corridor a few minutes before . |
| 9 | But he 'd only been inside the place a few minutes . |
| 10 | The crash of torrential rain a few minutes later set minds at rest . |
| 11 | A woman friend saw her driving out of town a few minutes later ; after that she just vanished into thin air . |
| 12 | They found their spaceship a few minutes later , and soon they were ready to leave the planet . |
| 13 | I had three questions on this point a few minutes ago . |
| 14 | Sycorax no longer leaked whatever liquids or foods she was able to consume , as she had during the worst of her fever , and Ariel could prop her up into a sitting position , and then , presenting her shoulders to her , go down on one knee to hoist her piggy-back and carry her to the privy in the forest a few minutes ' walk away . |
| 15 | Something had , at any rate , when she returned to the dining room a few minutes later . |
| 16 | He ran into the room a few minutes later and began to tear off his crumpled clothes . |
| 17 | ‘ How kind of you , ’ she said , balancing nicely on the edge of irony , in case a few minutes more of this should see him running out of line to shoot , and make it desirable to jettison him , ‘ how kind of you to tell me all about it ! ’ |
| 18 | Three of her friends — also nurses — had taken the same route a few minutes before . |
| 19 | It mattered not that Underwood repaid in kind a few minutes later — the damage had been done . |
| 20 | The car Clock had stopped at 11 o'clock , her watch a few minutes after . |
| 21 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 22 | Though he rejoined the race a few minutes later , Albers , who won the opening round of the series at Donington , was forced to call it a day four laps later . |
| 23 | She walked into the sitting-room a few minutes later as he was replacing the phone . |
| 24 | The announcements made by the Minister for Overseas Development a few minutes ago about the food situation were welcome , but people in Africa are starving and the terms of trade that they receive in their dealings with the developed countries , the problem of their huge indebtedness to the developed countries and the world order over which we now preside are such that hundreds of millions of people live on the edge of catastrophe . |
| 25 | Frank , one of the day men brought it in on a trolley a few minutes later . |
| 26 | He had his suede shoes brushed over with a wire brush by the boot-black outside the General Post Office and arrived at Exchange station a few minutes before ten o'clock . |
| 27 | Watching the BMW ease out into the traffic a few minutes later and accelerate away along the road , Harry turned Nadine 's words over in his mind . |
| 28 | ‘ I heard him being interviewed on the news a few minutes ago , ’ Bridget added . |
| 29 | Alison reached the bridge a few minutes late , and she apologised . |
| 30 | At the climax to the debate a few minutes ago the hon. Member for Cunninghame , South ( Mr. Lambie ) was addressing a single Labour Back Bencher . |