Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few minutes " in BNC.
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| 61 | " Comment t'appelles ? " he asked , after a few minutes . |
| 62 | After a few minutes had passed a loud scream was heard , for it was an electric oven ; and Alf , with singed hair , ran out of the house , down the street and round the corner where he vaulted the Embankment wall , intending to drown himself in the river but forgetting that it was a low tide . |
| 63 | After a few minutes I realize this letter can not be written truthfully . |
| 64 | After a few minutes a woman in a grey fur coat began to cross the street from my building . |
| 65 | After a few minutes , I took a deep breath . |
| 66 | After a few minutes , his breathing quickened and he started making noises that might have come from a monkey-house at feeding time . |
| 67 | After a few minutes of this he grew breathless with anger and rage and flurried his wings so much that he was hardly able to lift them any more he was so tired . |
| 68 | After a few minutes I take a look round the place , stepping under Moorish archways and over low white walls , past an astroturf tennis court and a swimming pool about the same size , uncovered and still . |
| 69 | After a few minutes , Greta Ross put down the phone and came out of the room . |
| 70 | Mr Wopsle went in to discover what was happening , and after a few minutes rushed out , calling , ‘ Something wrong up at the forge , Pip ! |
| 71 | ‘ That 's enough ! ’ he called after a few minutes . |
| 72 | After a few minutes ' thought , he announced , ‘ I must reveal the truth , I suppose . |
| 73 | After a few minutes she said , ‘ Oh , I nearly forgot the valentine card I bought yesterday ! ’ |
| 74 | After a few minutes she padded back into the bedroom wrapped in a big fluffy towel . |
| 75 | I looked around the ship , and after a few minutes , I found some long pieces of wood . |
| 76 | After a few minutes I managed to get to my knees and use a pee-bottle , although after sweating so much , I ca n't imagine I needed to . |
| 77 | After a few minutes , she thought to soft-nose him in . |
| 78 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 79 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
| 80 | After a few minutes , I began to feel quite snug . |
| 81 | ‘ Yes , I remember , ’ said my mother after a few minutes . |
| 82 | Even after a few minutes — even while the porter is still showing him to his room — Howard feels that he has understood a great deal about this city . |
| 83 | After a few minutes , the smell too was fainter . |
| 84 | After a few minutes more of dozing I sat up . |
| 85 | After a few minutes it will slowly and cautiously uncurl itself again . |
| 86 | At first chicks peck at both food and pebbles about equally , but after a few minutes they learn the difference and thereafter pick up the food and avoid the pebbles ( especially if the latter are glued to the floor ! ) . |
| 87 | After a few minutes , Blanche seemed to sense Dexter 's baleful mood , checked her watch and stood up to go . |
| 88 | Marcus told everything , reluctantly at first , but more freely after a few minutes . |
| 89 | After a few minutes her voice began to grate on Dougal 's ears . |
| 90 | After a few minutes a young woman came out of the street door below them and walked away . |