Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 11.30 on saturday night ward staff discovered he was missing — they began a search and found him fifteen minutes later . |
| 2 | Sunil found him ten minutes ago . |
| 3 | Biasion 's puncture cost him two minutes and he ended the day two minutes and six seconds behind Fiorio . |
| 4 | It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae . |
| 5 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 6 | Phillips said : ‘ The bench told me two minutes , the referee seven minutes . |
| 7 | Perhaps four or five minutes , though it certainly seemed more ; Moxie guessed ten minutes , and Gildas later told her that Ludens told him fifteen minutes . |
| 8 | They allowed you five minutes from your house to the tram-stop they had selected , and then five minutes to walk to the courts . |
| 9 | In the hall he retrieved his greatcoat and cap , was sitting in the rear of the Mercedes when Berger joined him five minutes later . |
| 10 | They joined him ten minutes later . |
| 11 | I was flying as Deputy Group Commander , and followed him one minute later . |
| 12 | ‘ Bill called me ten minutes ago from the track , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Captain Crowe looked likely to be the last man to leave the ship but DeFreitas scuttled him eight minutes after he reached a courageous fifty with yet another which left the bat . |
| 14 | Eventually Linda gave it up and admitted that Marilyn Duxbody was not present but added , with overtones of hysteria , that she expected her any minute . |
| 15 | Joseph saw them one minute to port , then the next minute to starboard , and once they even appeared dead astern as the river turned back on itself . |
| 16 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 17 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 18 | No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school ! |
| 19 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 20 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 21 | It took me five minutes to put up the inner , which is erected first and another five minutes to fit the flysheet and peg out on one wild and windy night . |
| 22 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |
| 23 | It took me ten minutes to reel him in . ’ |
| 24 | It took me ten minutes just to stop shaking so I could walk . |
| 25 | Outside , in the terrible wind and the rain , it took them fifteen minutes to get the boat ready . |
| 26 | Erm yo there was so many trains into Nottingham , into Victoria at twelve minutes , it took you thirty minutes into the Midland Station , having called at and , and all sorts of places on the way . |
| 27 | If it took you 15 minutes then you were walking at 4 m.p.h. : Speed = Distance/Time = 1 mile/0.25 hours |
| 28 | It took him fifteen minutes and by the end his hand was sore from all the shaking . |
| 29 | It took him five minutes to dress and leave the house . |
| 30 | I got into a fight with a man whose IQ was so low , it took him ten minutes to say ‘ press wanker ’ . |