Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] minutes [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 After a few minutes we watched them crossing the field , alongside the hedgerow .
2 After a few minutes we were shaking hands .
3 After a few minutes we all started to move along the ditch .
4 After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old .
5 At first chicks peck at both food and pebbles about equally , but after a few minutes they learn the difference and thereafter pick up the food and avoid the pebbles ( especially if the latter are glued to the floor ! ) .
6 After a few minutes they were half opened and a middle-aged woman came and sat on the chair by his bed .
7 She made it back to her office and sank into her chair ; but after a few minutes she sat up , combed her hair and decided to go home .
8 At first she pulled back , but after a few minutes she relaxed a little .
9 After a few minutes she returned .
10 After a few minutes she noticed a certain cunning softness replacing the apprehension of his expression , and her heart began to beat a little faster .
11 After a few minutes she decided to take another two tables and then continued taking two at a time until she had swallowed about 30 .
12 After a few minutes she said , ‘ Oh , I nearly forgot the valentine card I bought yesterday ! ’
13 After a few minutes she padded back into the bedroom wrapped in a big fluffy towel .
14 After a few minutes she stopped watching them .
15 Bella always tries , but after a few minutes she burst into tears and would never go near that room again .
16 After a few minutes she went out and Quigley came in , waving a piece of paper .
17 After a few minutes she opened them again .
18 They headed north , and after a few minutes she began to think she might actually survive .
19 After a few minutes she bent her head and dropped a kiss lightly on his ankle , and then her hand slid up under the leg of the leathers and sensuously kneaded the firm muscle at the back of his calf .
20 After a few minutes it was the same inside .
21 Gaining height rapidly , heading east , after a few minutes it was enveloped by clouds and lost to view . ’
22 If your symptoms do n't go away after a few minutes it is probable that you have n't caught it quickly enough and in this case you will need to use the technique of ‘ rebreathing ’ .
23 After a few minutes it will slowly and cautiously uncurl itself again .
24 Then after a few minutes it all stops .
25 After a few minutes I felt pins and needles in my behind , my blood pressure was fine and I was allowed to sit up again .
26 After a few minutes I roused myself , gathered up the clothes , and went round to Dominic 's room , holding his key through a handkerchief .
27 Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics !
28 After a few minutes I unexpectedly found myself singing a song which I was sure I had not sung since Eton days forty years before .
29 After a few minutes I realize this letter can not be written truthfully .
30 After a few minutes I take a look round the place , stepping under Moorish archways and over low white walls , past an astroturf tennis court and a swimming pool about the same size , uncovered and still .
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