Example sentences of "[art] few minute i " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You managed to organize all this in the few minutes I was out there ? |
2 | I am hot and sticky from my drive , but the scent of lilac drifts in from the garden with the sound of blackbirds , and within a few minutes I feel much at home . |
3 | After a few minutes I felt pins and needles in my behind , my blood pressure was fine and I was allowed to sit up again . |
4 | After a few minutes I roused myself , gathered up the clothes , and went round to Dominic 's room , holding his key through a handkerchief . |
5 | Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics ! |
6 | Within a few minutes I not only felt but heard the tissue in the sinuses beginning to break up , and by the time he had finished both were completely clear . |
7 | After a few minutes I unexpectedly found myself singing a song which I was sure I had not sung since Eton days forty years before . |
8 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
9 | After a few minutes I realize this letter can not be written truthfully . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
13 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |
14 | I was glad to stay and rest at first , but after a few minutes I became unbearably nervous . |
15 | ‘ A few minutes I could spare , ’ she flashed at him . |
16 | For a few minutes I was free of this terrible worry about who I am , about my family . |
17 | ‘ For a few minutes I was at peace with myself . ’ |
18 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |