Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [num] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to have ten minutes with him . |
| 2 | He 'll decide to spend five minutes scanning his mail and raise key profit issues with Henry from Revenue Accounts , Glenda from Product Development and Bertie Buckles ( his boss ) . |
| 3 | He left her on the hard shoulder , near Epping , Essex , saying she would only have to wait 15 minutes . |
| 4 | The rescue service , which describes its staff as the ‘ new knights of the road , ’ boasts women alone should only have to wait 20 minutes . |
| 5 | Had she gone the long way round , using a main road , she would only have added 10 minutes to her journey . |
| 6 | So you set your time limit , right we 'll have say twenty minutes , half an hour at the most , then you stop and look at it , and say anybody want to add anything else . |
| 7 | New station Whittington ‘ would have saved ten minutes if open ’ ; Baschurch ? |
| 8 | ‘ It would have taken forty-five minutes by bus , but I did it in a quarter of an hour by bike , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Now the meeting , which should have taken ten minutes , was being dragged out to three-quarters of an hour . |
| 10 | Jorg Sambetn , a Givaudan engineer who investigated the accident after it happened , says it should only have taken 15 minutes , and can not understand why the workers omitted it . |
| 11 | It " would have taken 15 minutes to reach San Salvador and Marianella was probably transferred for interrogation to the Military School . |
| 12 | Samways might have equalised three minutes later but after creating an opening for himself , he blazed over the bar . |
| 13 | ‘ As for his hard-man image , all I 'll say is that he would n't have lasted five minutes in my day . |
| 14 | You would n't have lasted five minutes if you 'd gone after Bernard by yourself . |
| 15 | But I can assure you that I would n't have lasted five minutes in what , by any standards , is a very tricky and difficult market if I had n't been able to cope with the work . |
| 16 | We have to work as quickly and as safely as we possibly can and we ca n't afford to spend five minutes er searching a house , let alone a flat . |
| 17 | Given the option , would you prefer to spend 80 minutes hard labour twice a week at placed like Lancaster Park , Christchurch or lying on the beach at Famagusta ? |