Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adj] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |
| 2 | Two urethral injections of argyrol ( 10% ) are then given and retained five minutes . |
| 3 | In each study , continuous infusion of intra-arterial PYX ( 0.1–1.0 µmol/l ) was started five minutes after the start of the carbachol ( 0.1 µmol/l ) infusion and stopped five minutes before the end of the carbachol infusion . |
| 4 | She trotted off and returned two minutes later with a pure white cashmere cardigan . |
| 5 | I let them get on with it , and returned ten minutes later to find them " space-walking " . |
| 6 | Former first team captain Peter Crossley , now fixtures secretary and holder of the coveted Golden Duck award , insists that once when Smith rang he laid the phone down , did the week 's shopping and returned 90 minutes later . |
| 7 | Miss Ingram , as usual , was first , and spent fifteen minutes alone with the old woman in the library . |
| 8 | Every morning she arrived at our door and spent five minutes flustering around with her hand-broom . |
| 9 | She was a strong swimmer , and spent five minutes ploughing her way effortlessly along its length before surfacing to sleek her hair back and knead the water from her eyes . |
| 10 | Dr Scott , from long experience , did no more than wrinkle his nose at the odour of decay , and spent twenty minutes there , mostly occupied with a careful consideration of the head . |
| 11 | One elderly Palestinian in Beirut wanted to draw a map of his olive grove for me and spent ten minutes sketching and re-sketching the roads south of Jaffa . |
| 12 | PRINCESS Diana held hands with a dying AIDS victim yesterday and spent 15 minutes comforting him . |
| 13 | The Duke took a great deal of interest in matters culinary , and spent 15 minutes deep in conversation with Gareth , who has not yet revealed what was discussed . |
| 14 | He enjoyed the camaraderie of police life and spent several minutes going about the murder squad office , exchanging pleasantries with officers he did not know and catching up with the latest news . |
| 15 | CLARE Greenslee ( Macclesfield ) took a massive 10 minutes off the women 's course record in the 10-mile hill race up Moel Fammau from Loggerheads and finished 13 minutes clear of runner Sue Rawsen . |
| 16 | The fly is large , and took eight minutes to erect on my own but just five minutes with a friend . |
| 17 | The big fish took a traditional mallard and claret size 10 fished on the top dropper of an intermediate line on the school house drift , and took 20 minutes to land . |
| 18 | But once I got to the hospital and after the operation the doctor reassured me it was a straightforward and took forty-five minutes . |
| 19 | He took it into his garage and emerged five minutes later looking pale and drawn . |
| 20 | He knocked on the door and waited ten minutes ( as he always does ) . |
| 21 | I was offered a cup of tea and stayed ten minutes longer than I thought I 'd be . |
| 22 | The tree was in silhouette , but there seemed to be flames in one of its branches ; flames that licked high , then guttered and were gone , only to flare again … as if a fire was coming and going … as if the fire was not of this time , but spent brief minutes in the tree , then flared in another world , before revisiting the winter branches . |