Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] minutes i " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After a few minutes I roused myself , gathered up the clothes , and went round to Dominic 's room , holding his key through a handkerchief . |
| 3 | Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After a few minutes I realize this letter can not be written truthfully . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After a few minutes I managed to get to my knees and use a pee-bottle , although after sweating so much , I ca n't imagine I needed to . |
| 8 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |
| 9 | I was glad to stay and rest at first , but after a few minutes I became unbearably nervous . |
| 10 | For a few minutes I was free of this terrible worry about who I am , about my family . |
| 11 | ‘ For a few minutes I was at peace with myself . ’ |
| 12 | I am hot and sticky from my drive , but the scent of lilac drifts in from the garden with the sound of blackbirds , and within a few minutes I feel much at home . |
| 13 | Within a few minutes I not only felt but heard the tissue in the sinuses beginning to break up , and by the time he had finished both were completely clear . |
| 14 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |