Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] minutes he " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone have seen pictures from our game against Poland he came on as a substitute for Fjortoft as lone attacker — and he played brilliantly for the 20 minutes he was on . |
| 2 | For the few minutes he was trapped there he could feel the pull of the ocean on his legs . |
| 3 | After a few minutes he heaved himself out of bed , but his leg let him down and he fell backwards . |
| 4 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 5 | After a few minutes he had spoken again . |
| 6 | I did so and after a few minutes he said , ‘ Good enough , now you can continue in English . ’ |
| 7 | After a few minutes he replaces it with something more conducive to conversation , the Neville Brothers ' ‘ Yellow Moon ’ . |
| 8 | After a few minutes he raised his head and was now sitting motionless , pale and haggard but controlled , while Iris , her eyes moist with sympathetic tears , stood silently and helplessly by . |
| 9 | After a few minutes he came back and locked the door behind him . |
| 10 | After a few minutes he burst into our room with a shocked look on his face . |
| 11 | He was thinking instead of the twenty minutes he had spent at home between a difficult hour persuading the voluntary organist at New End ( a retired primary-school headmistress who felt she was being taken for granted ) to continue , at least temporarily , and this service of compline at Quindale . |
| 12 | He was horrified that even for a few minutes he could seriously have contemplated such destructive stupidity . |
| 13 | But if you leave a child for a few minutes he may find the pills you keep in the bedside drawer and poison himself . |
| 14 | It was too late to save the rick , so for a few minutes he stood and stared at the flames . |
| 15 | Well , I was there , behind the bar , standing in for Marcus , for a few minutes he said , more like two hours , so I saw it all develop . |
| 16 | George drove , not going anywhere , and for a few minutes he said nothing , then : ‘ Ecology . |
| 17 | For a few minutes he remained silent and she wondered where the bright start to the day had gone . |
| 18 | Then , after going on like that for a few minutes he took my hand and said , ‘ Faith you were absolutely rubbish ! ’ with that famous dead-pan expression . |
| 19 | My Donald had terrible injuries , yet for a few minutes he lived . |
| 20 | Erm I ca n't tell you what time he 'll be home really erm well say in the twenty minutes he 's bound to be home cos he he 's been home and then he 's had to shoot out again , he 's gone to get the battery so he wo n't be long . |
| 21 | Within a few minutes he had noticed a scruffy individual walk into the Oak public house , Stoke Row . |
| 22 | ‘ Frankie would buy a wonderful new suit and within a few minutes he 'd look as though he 'd slept in it . |
| 23 | I was told how to contact him in Rome and within a few minutes he was on the line . |
| 24 | In a few minutes he was ready . |