Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few minutes [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy . |
| 2 | Ice fishing , I find , is as cold as anything I have ever tried in the Arctic , and after a few minutes of unproductive ass-freezing I pack it in . |
| 3 | After a few minutes of stilted , low-voiced conversation , Gladys retreated to her room , and Meryl thankfully resumed her seat in the window . |
| 4 | After a few minutes of this he grew breathless with anger and rage and flurried his wings so much that he was hardly able to lift them any more he was so tired . |
| 5 | After a few minutes of practise , subjects adapt and are able to compensate for this distortion . |
| 6 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 7 | After a few minutes with Mr Malik , Robert himself quite often felt like making the frighteningly short journey from doubt to belief . |
| 8 | AFTER a few minutes in the company of Joe Boyd , I was wondering whether there was anybody in world music he had not heard of . |
| 9 | After a few minutes in the kitchen , the lady placed before me a plate of home-made scones , a dish of jam and a large pot of tea , all delicious . |
| 10 | Nicky Ryan can be a defensive man in the wrong company , but after a few minutes in my presence he seems to know I have ‘ felt ’ Enya 's music , and he relaxes considerably . |
| 11 | The results suggested that the half-life of these complexes was short , in the range of a few minutes for P A2b and of 10–20 seconds for P A3 , since the DNA-strand opening was undetectable at both promoters after a 10 minutes challenge and , in the case of P A3 , considerably reduced after a 15 seconds challenge ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 12 | However , there was a delay of a few minutes from the start of the experiment before the chicks ate their first camouflaged rice grains . |
| 13 | Only five or six farms were involved in this tragedy ; but for a few minutes at least we traverse fields brought into being by the high-handed action of a fifteenth-century squire , and pass by the mounds where the hamlet of Holyoak once stood . |
| 14 | The time was after eleven and he was tired but he could never sleep without reading for a few minutes at least . |
| 15 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |
| 16 | I remember that I left my bag on the table for a few minutes at coffee time in the afternoon . ’ |
| 17 | Air is so vital that it is only possible to live for a few minutes without it . |
| 18 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 19 | They sat in the car for a few minutes without speaking . |
| 20 | Add the rice and saffron and sauté for a few minutes with the onion until opaque . |
| 21 | I showered and then decided to lie in a hot bath for a few minutes with a cup of tea at my elbow and the latest Kingsley Amis in front of my face . |
| 22 | The 5 sins were such things as letting his Bible fall by accident , jumping about for a few minutes on the sabbath , forgetting that it was Sunday , and hesitating to lend his sister a book which she asked him for . ' |
| 23 | She leaned for a few minutes on the stone parapet overlooking the river , shading her eyes against the glitter of sunlight on the water and feeling its warmth soaking into her bones , before crossing the road and plunging into the narrow streets of the old town . |
| 24 | Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin . |
| 25 | Outside the wind grew even more savage and we cut short the one doomed attempt to raise the tent , retreating to the truck for a few minutes of poor slumber . |
| 26 | It became the Chancellor 's habit to interrupt his morning procession to work for a few minutes of Cabinet Room conversation with the Prime Minister . |
| 27 | In real-time only seconds had passed , not much more time than it would have taken to see if he was in and ask him for a few minutes of his time . |
| 28 | Ten a.m. , 24th July ; just finished breakfast with the mortar team and relaxing for a few minutes over a mug of hot tea discussing the number of casualties after the heavy shelling last night . |
| 29 | Early one pre-Sale morning a stranger silently passed two sorters working in the vestibule , went for a few minutes into the Church , which happened at eh time to be empty of all nut noods , and then said to them as he walked out ‘ You 've made that Church live . ’ |
| 30 | Georgina chatted for a few minutes about the qualities she considered desirable in a secretary ; she even asked Celia 's opinion . |