Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [det] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please could I ask you to find a few minutes to write to the Secretary of State for Wales , Welsh Office , Cathays Park , Cardiff CF1 3NQ , urging him to persuade his cabinet colleagues of the importance of finding time for an Environment Bill which includes these measures . |
| 2 | Delays are unlikely to exceed a few minutes while capacity is maximised . |
| 3 | ‘ Shall I tell him to wait a few minutes , Inspector ? |
| 4 | She was obliged to wait a few minutes while a Land Rover was being manoeuvred into the empty space beside her and then , with a start , she saw the driver . |
| 5 | Oh I see , yes , you have to wait a few minutes . |
| 6 | ‘ Surely it did n't hurt you to spare a few minutes for an old man ? ’ |
| 7 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 8 | ‘ I only intend to stay a few minutes . |
| 9 | To think a few minutes of thoughtless pleasure could end in this . |
| 10 | All you need is a little understanding of what the end result should look like and a to spend a few minutes reading the manuals . |
| 11 | What I want to spend a few minutes on again this is something we 'll test tomorrow , right so I 'm giving you , training 's all about doing what do you think ? |
| 12 | She was merely an old woman who wanted to spend a few minutes in nostalgic memory of long-ago visits to America . |
| 13 | I 'd like to spend a few minutes now trying to pull that together and then go onto how we evaluate these plans , because you 've all produced these and would n't you like to know how good they are and how bad they are ? |
| 14 | They dive into the mist and vanish , only to reappear a few minutes later , some considerable distance away . |
| 15 | He left the cosy little restaurant to reappear a few minutes later with the announcement that her taxi was at the door and that he and Bob would go with her as far as her hotel . |
| 16 | It would help us to plan for the future if you would be so kind as to take a few minutes to fill in this questionnaire . |
| 17 | Occasionally they would get a little wary and move out of the swim but only to return a few minutes later to the area that they had apparently cleared for spawning . |