Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] few seconds " in BNC.
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| 1 | So is the main report true ? only got a few seconds , I 'm sorry . |
| 2 | Now and again one zooms over about tree-top height but soon disappears , followed a few seconds later by Allied fighters . |
| 3 | About fifty or sixty yards away on the right-band side of the road a mortar bomb burst in the hedgerow , followed a few seconds later by four German soldiers carrying automatic weapons jumping from the hedgerow and scampering along the road . |
| 4 | There was no answer , only silence again , followed a few seconds later by the crashing sound . |
| 5 | Facet augmentation returned a few seconds later . |
| 6 | Out from behind a petrol pump appeared a figure that was female , though it took a few seconds to realise it . |
| 7 | It took a few seconds after he regained consciousness to realize that he was blindfolded . |
| 8 | It took a few seconds before she realised that he had pulled himself away from her . |
| 9 | What she saw brought her upright , but , still foggy with sleep , she took a few seconds to interpret what she saw . |
| 10 | The jeep-driver went into the farmhouse and emerged a few seconds later with the burly man . |
| 11 | The hand rampaged through various pockets and emerged a few seconds later with a rectangle of paper torn from a reporter 's notebook . |
| 12 | She hesitated a few seconds before putting her arm around the girl 's thin shoulders . |
| 13 | The silence lasted a few seconds . |
| 14 | Closing my eyes , thinking that it might be either the sun or the Pernod , I waited a few seconds and chanced another look . |
| 15 | She waited a few seconds for any sounds that might tell her that her mother was in there but out of her range of sight . |
| 16 | He waited a few seconds for Lorton to reply . |
| 17 | Her stilted smile reappeared , placing a dent at one corner of her mouth , but she waited a few seconds longer , making sure that the ghost had retreated again . |
| 18 | She waited a few seconds and shouted louder . |
| 19 | The only certainty was that she had a few seconds to act . |