Example sentences of "[vb past] twenty minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came twenty minutes early , there 's Brian up in the shower , there 's me stuffing things in the cupboard under the stairs . |
| 2 | The meeting was arranged for ten o'clock ; in their anxiety , they arrived twenty minutes early , and Ernest suggested that for politeness ' sake they should walk up White Horse Lane and back , to kill time . |
| 3 | Alida Thorne sat rigid until the calling ceased and the house folded back into silence , and her clock showed twenty minutes past twelve . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The cash , in bundles of £50 , £20 and £10 notes , was stolen while they spent twenty minutes shopping . |
| 6 | … My return journey with the soup took twenty minutes ; the soup was cold , and the Empress had fallen asleep in her chair . |
| 7 | The jury took twenty minutes to return a verdict of guilty . |
| 8 | Telephone call took twenty minutes and had to explain how I had arrived at such a decision . |
| 9 | Edward , given a private room , discovered the problem first hand : it took twenty minutes before he raised the operator , and another ten before he was talking to Flight Lieutenant Benson . |
| 10 | Gazzer wasted twenty minutes on the sea front waiting for a bus to take him up as far as the Leisure Centre . |
| 11 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 12 | I had twenty minutes to see what I could do about his combination locks . |
| 13 | The break lasted twenty minutes ; but it was not a complete break for the horseman for he was still in charge of the horses ; and as they were not feeding they sometimes got restless , especially in the summer-time when the flies worried them and sometimes caused a horse to get his foot over a trace . |
| 14 | Well he was ringing from Birmingham , he 'd put a pound in , it lasted twenty minutes . |
| 15 | The white Mercedes bus that had waited at the end of the line for the red-shirted storm-troopers left twenty minutes after the attack started . |
| 16 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 17 | I waited twenty minutes in Glasgow drizzle and still no bus . |