Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last [det] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last few minutes , she had been travelling in parallel to her previous route . |
| 2 | It was difficult to explain , but he 'd been uneasy for the last few minutes : not an emotion he 'd ever had much experience of before . |
| 3 | Cook the rice as indicated on the packet and cook the frozen petits pois with the rice for the last few minutes . |
| 4 | For the last few minutes before Ellen appeared , Ruth stood by the window , looking down the dale . |
| 5 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 6 | Melanie , their new PR , has been watching proceedings for the last few minutes . |
| 7 | Neither man had spoken for the last few minutes . |
| 8 | Almost everyone has a story to tell about dream incorporation — for instance dreaming about Arctic exploration only to wake up and find that the covers have slipped off and he is freezing cold , or dreaming of bells ringing only to wake up eventually to find that the alarm clock has been clattering for the last few minutes . |
| 9 | During the last few minutes Hazel had been as near to losing his head as he was ever to come . |
| 10 | What the hell do you think I 've been talkin' about the last few minutes ? |
| 11 | What you will think of it , I suspect , depends on your zodiac sign or whether you blubbed through the last few minutes of Peter Weir 's Dead Poets Society . |
| 12 | Its owner had claimed the animal was also whipped , but within the last few minutes , a tribunal has dismissed the accusations . |
| 13 | With the crews overlapping until the last few minutes of the 4¼-mile race , it had been a gruelling test for all . |
| 14 | Do n't wait until the last few minutes ; it may be too late . |
| 15 | In the last few minutes he would fumble in a inside pocket , and the Queen in her handbag , and they would quickly run through the formal subjects for discussion . |
| 16 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 17 | Some kind of crisis had developed in the last few minutes , and she did n't know why she felt afraid . |
| 18 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 19 | Finally , proceed in the last few minutes to the last two of the seven stages — IL and E. |
| 20 | There is a summary , your proof , your appendices , there 's a letter dated the fourth of February from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust , there is a special statement , and last , and only just received in the last few minutes , there is a supplementary note by Doctor on the Greater Crested Newt and its importance in relation to Skelton Pond . |
| 21 | In the last few minutes of the Committee stage we had an interesting debate when the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) defended what had happened . |
| 22 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 23 | The match resumed and the two sides remained locked in fairly even combat until , in the last few minutes , a goal-mouth scramble enabled the home team to snatch the solitary goal and two points that would take them nowhere near the top of their league . |
| 24 | Leeds get stuck in though and in the last few minutes Newsome gets the goal to go 3–2 , do n't ask me what it was the whole match was so exciting I forgot everything ! |
| 25 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 26 | ‘ In the last few minutes one of the party of missing students — ’ Kath let out her breath on a gust ‘ — has made his way to the surface , and he has told us that there are still two men trapped below here , ’ he announced in the earnest voice of sepulchral doom so favoured by reporters at the scene of an incident . |
| 27 | Ballater , in the last few minutes of his visit , praised his performance as a pianist and the atmosphere became more cordial . |
| 28 | We 've just heard in the last few minutes that the application for that hotel to be listed has been turned down . |
| 29 | Gradually , over the last few minutes , I had become conscious.of a growing discomfort , a tickling , burning sensation in the face and hands , and even In my hair a stinging sort of unpleasantness that suddenly became insupportable . |
| 30 | erm Right on the last few minutes with five minutes to go erm the erm Steven was again through and Leach had to go full length to save . |