Example sentences of "on for [adj] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 2 | Let him go ’ , so the interpreter sat down and M. Ver carried on for five minutes more . |
| 3 | Just leave lotion on for five minutes . |
| 4 | Describing the American feature film , The Last Temptation of Christ , to which he awarded a certificate , as a challenging religious film he said that acontroversial scene : ‘ It indicated that Christ had sex , but it did not go on for 14 minutes . ’ |
| 5 | These went on for fifteen minutes , again under the hard gaze of Sister Mary . |
| 6 | How to use : Apply a thin layer to the face and neck and leave on for 10–15 minutes . |
| 7 | Apply to face and neck , leave on for 10–15 minutes and rinse off with cool water . |
| 8 | How to use : Apply to wet hair ; leave on for 15–30 minutes before shampooing out . |
| 9 | How to use : Apply to wet hair ; massage into the scalp and leave on for 15–30 minutes . |
| 10 | The debate has now gone on for thirty minutes . |
| 11 | it 's only on for two minutes |
| 12 | Wicketkeeper Adam Parore delayed Sri Lanka 's victory bid by holding on for 223 minutes for a Test-best 60 . |
| 13 | Could you really address Princess Diana as ‘ Your Royal Highness ’ after hearing her babble on for 20 minutes to a man who calls her Squidgy ? |
| 14 | Wood changed the compass course and flew on for 20 minutes , but their next bearing from Darwin indicated that they were even further north of track . |
| 15 | Dexter watched the conversation between his boss and Russell rattle on for several minutes . |
| 16 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 17 | ‘ I used a hot towel and left the product on for ten minutes after which time my hair felt very soft . |
| 18 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 19 | The musical interlude went on for ten minutes and finished with the mad figures collapsing on the ground . |
| 20 | PRICE : £2.39/250ml ‘ I left the conditioner on for 15 minutes and wrapped my hair in a hot towel . |
| 21 | ‘ I have an 18 month old son so I could only leave the conditioner on for three minutes but I was still very impressed . |
| 22 | I am less sure about the Andantino grazioso , which could be more relaxed than here ; it 's as if the performers are anxious that this longish ( and to be honest , maybe too long ) movement should not outstay its welcome , and even here it lasts getting on for three minutes longer than either of the others . |
| 23 | So she puts the pinger on for three minutes . |