Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [num] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put me in the oven and bake me for forty minutes . |
| 2 | It was not until Aunt Kit rang me up , three days later , and abused me for ten minutes between tearing bouts of coughing , saying that I had hurt ‘ poor Lil ’ quite unbearably , that he said I had been wrong to write it . |
| 3 | He watched them for two minutes , but they did not move . |
| 4 | The rumour is one of the caretakers was happily waving at them for 5 minutes before somebody told him they were n't real . |
| 5 | He had then thrown stones at them for fifteen minutes before ordering a kit inspection for the rest of us . |
| 6 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 7 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 8 | I speak with them for forty minutes and generally have my socks charmed from my feet , the spring put in my step and all semblance of a chill factor taken from this typical October evening . |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't seen you for five minutes alone today , ’ I complained . |
| 10 | Ca n't I leave you for five minutes ? |
| 11 | alright he 's met you for five minutes but he 's come here I said this gang of children , I said the poor bugger 's not going to know what hit him I said alright if it 's just for Sally 's three I said he 's gon na be , he 's not gon na be relaxed I said I know that for a fact I said I know what it was like when I used to go and visit your people when I was |
| 12 | This is mainly the fault of the shop assistants , all of whom climb mountains and will stand discussing Munros with you for 45 minutes , which makes it impossible to leave without buying something . |
| 13 | Xishe 's wife is allowed to see him for 45 minutes twice a year . |
| 14 | The object of the rest of the company , who question him for fifteen minutes , is to establish a self-contradiction . |
| 15 | I usually let him out of the pram but last week I lost him for five minutes in Tesco , ’ she said . |
| 16 | When Vinnie Jones was a player here they put one camera on him for 90 minutes , nothing else . |
| 17 | After coaxing him for 20 minutes , one officer grabbed the man — only to discover he had been bleeding heavily from deep cuts to his wrist and arms . |
| 18 | Oh yeah all the all the hits er like er Bunch of Time and and Maggie and Old Flames and after all these years , if did n't do those you 'd be shot afterwards like but er what we do with the songs that that were like you know hit singles and that people really come to hear we make sure that you know that we do those and then we put in er you know what we think would be the favourite ones from albums and then we add in a sprinkling of the stuff from the new album so you know we give them a good cross-section for an hour and a half and then we have a good first half of the show as well we 've got first half of the show as well and our band go on with him for forty minutes and er they perform as well a few soloists and er then Tony and myself come on and we do an hour and a half and we go right everything we do on stage we have recorded at some time , we do n't do something that we have n't recorded . |
| 19 | Went past the garden , they did n't find her for thirty minutes the little girl ! |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps you can look after her for five minutes while I go and book the rooms ? ’ |
| 21 | Corbett had been alone with her for five minutes when she died , but Mr Justice McKinnon told the jury ’ You simply could not be sure that in the short time Danielle was under his control he caused her death . |
| 22 | Having ignored her for forty minutes whilst they failed to answer questions about Amy to which she might know the answer , Theodora might perhaps have been forgiven for telling them nothing . |
| 23 | After a while , though , I started receiving letters from her , and on Sunday evenings my Pop would take me to the phone booth , where at a prearranged time I would ring a phone booth in Scotland and talk to her for 3 minutes . |
| 24 | He stood in it for fifteen minutes , until it rang on the dot of nine . |
| 25 | Yes , if the sun were to go out now we would n't know about it for eight minutes . |
| 26 | if you leave it for two minutes |
| 27 | The passcode system 's a welcome addition and the joystick on the control panel which mimics your movement 's also a nice touch , but once you 've played it for five minutes you 'll have seen everything the game 's got to offer ! |
| 28 | In some lessons you might use it for five minutes . |
| 29 | I had sight of it for five minutes and decided to use it . ’ |
| 30 | To make this purée of salt cod , brandir ( stir or crush with energy ) the fish , having first soaked it for at least 24 hours , simmer it for 20 minutes and remove the bones and fins but not the skin . |