Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [num] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far better to catch the parent in the playground or corridor and ask them to spare five minutes when it 's convenient just to pop in to have a quiet little chat . |
| 2 | ‘ But there is one thing that does very much interest me , as it happens … and that 's your answer to my question … the one I asked five minutes ago and to which you have so far avoided giving an answer … ’ |
| 3 | Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ? |
| 4 | I mean ten minutes extra , but ten minutes seems like |
| 5 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 6 | I arrived ten minutes later for dinner with Howard and was completely recovered by the end of the meal . |
| 7 | I arrived ten minutes before the train was leaving , wearing a headscarf , and attached myself to a group of schoolchildren , chatting to their teacher about how smart they were and she must be proud . |
| 8 | Like I mean if I like five minutes we 're all down |
| 9 | A fuming Jackson said : ‘ I spent 40 minutes walking up and down looking for an official , and later two hours near the control centre , but nothing happened . ’ |
| 10 | Here was I , not going to talk about the Pope 's ‘ Lamentabili ’ and have n't I spent ten minutes on it already . |
| 11 | When I thought five minutes were up I decided to give him another five . |
| 12 | ‘ I live 20 minutes away from the set , but when you are working 16 hours a day the last thing you need is to be in a foreign country with a small child . |
| 13 | Two members of the band posed with a laughing Mr Brooke , who said : ‘ I know them considerably better than I did 15 minutes ago , ’ — but he declined to offer a rendition of any of their songs . |
| 14 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 15 | The way I play five minutes . |
| 16 | and er , she said oh yes please and I said fifteen minutes you know , she said , since I 've seen the Solicitor I feel a different person , I said you look different , you look ten years younger , she said everybody 's telling me I look ten years younger . |
| 17 | I said five minutes . ’ |
| 18 | To hell with the risk , I had three minutes to create an impact ( being carried off on a stretcher should do it ) . |
| 19 | I had twenty minutes to see what I could do about his combination locks . |
| 20 | I waited twenty minutes in Glasgow drizzle and still no bus . |
| 21 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 22 | Can I say two minutes for what I think might happen and where we 've derived some of the authority from . |
| 23 | Well that 's what I suggested ten minutes ago ! |
| 24 | I set the float two inches shallower , and then lay the rod down while I spend five minutes trickling maggots down the run . |
| 25 | Then cos you had er three warnings you got five minutes before and er then you had a the erm final warning and then the blasting and the they give you the all clear . |
| 26 | It was fifty , it 's thirty minutes to do the run , you only wanted a bus to repeat itself every forty minutes , so you got ten minutes to waste . |
| 27 | Yeah , at the beginning was when sort of got twenty minutes left to do it erm we were fine there and I think it was the beginning part was and then we started panicking then like sort of after that you said oh do you want five minutes or more and we all sort of looked at each other you know and we did n't feel that we had enough time erm so we just sort of really |
| 28 | about it we could you know five minutes . |
| 29 | Would n't it be lovely , then , to be able to tell your PC that you want to run a CD ROM based game , and would it please re-configure itself to do the best job , preferably without making you wait five minutes while it re-boots ? |
| 30 | Or will you wait ten minutes ? ’ |