Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [num] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I were twenty minutes over the |
| 2 | I should have been allowed in if I was five minutes late . |
| 3 | och , do you know I was five minutes late , but that was different I was twenty five minutes late , I I did n't even ask her why , cos I knew we 'd in the door like as I 'm walking through it . |
| 4 | ‘ I was 10 minutes from the title , ’ he said ruefully afterwards . |
| 5 | You are three minutes late . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're five minutes late . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 're 10 minutes early , but come in — my son can look after you . ’ |
| 8 | If you 're three minutes at home , then you 're fine , most likely that will mean you 're up slightly under the three minutes when you do it before your tutor . |
| 9 | it was very clever , I watched the first couple because people who like Harry Enfield 's comic characters switched on , just to see what he was like and before you knew it you were twenty minutes into a half hour programme and you stuck with it to the end . |
| 10 | So eager was she to experience another session of past-life regression that she was fifteen minutes early for her appointment ! |
| 11 | All she could do was stare glumly at the sign hanging inside the door — CONFISERIE VASSOIR : Ouvert 9.30–18.30 Mardi à Samedi — then glance at her watch , which confirmed she was fifteen minutes too late . |
| 12 | That was doubly endorsed for her as a feeling of nausea entered the fray of ragged nerves , and she realised that she was fifteen minutes early . |
| 13 | Making excuses e.g. excusing yourself for shouting at the babysitter — after all she was three minutes late |
| 14 | By the time she had parked she was twenty minutes late and quite beyond caring . |
| 15 | Here we are 15 minutes walk from the town centre , ’ says Mrs Linda Polson , a former development and community services manager at the hospital , who now runs the Victoria private home . |
| 16 | But we are 90 minutes away from Wembley with a game to follow on our ground . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're 45 minutes from town , so , after training there 's not a great deal on the agenda . |
| 18 | There 's going to be no walkovers now , I mean we 're eighty minutes away from Twickenham . |
| 19 | He was right when he said the question I would have to answer most was ‘ When do we reach so and so ? ’ … and if I were a regular waiter he said I would know the answers , even though we 're thirty-five minutes earlier everywhere than the regular Canadian . ’ |
| 20 | We 're forty minutes up the road . |
| 21 | We 're ten minutes ’ drive away at most . ’ |
| 22 | We were ten minutes from the airport when a jete flew overhead and the pilot said : ‘ Welcome to Alexandria ’ . |
| 23 | I think they 're all I think they 're ninety minutes . |
| 24 | there , then , they 're ninety minutes tape |
| 25 | They were two minutes away from their sixth barren scoreline in manager Don Howe 's 15-match reign when Thomas 's shot took a violent deflection off Sansom to leave goalkeeper Ogrizovic moving to his left while the ball sailed inside his right hand post . |
| 26 | They were two minutes away from their sixth barren scoreline in manager Don Howe 's 15-match reign when Thomas 's shot took a violent deflection off Sansom to leave goalkeeper Ogrizovic moving to his left while the ball sailed inside his right hand post . |
| 27 | Possom Bourne drove them to victory in the Rally Of Indonesia … after four days and 400 kilometres they were six minutes ahead at the end |
| 28 | They were 15 minutes from a battling victory at St James ' Park and seemed to be riding tremendous pressure when referee Steve Bell stepped in to award the Division One high-fliers a spot kick . |
| 29 | It 's thirteen minutes past six . |
| 30 | I know it 's twelve minutes past I need extra few minutes . |