Example sentences of "[prep] just a few minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 2 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 3 | Now , for just a few minutes at a time , focus on this image — and stir in desire . |
| 4 | He 'd first appeared a few months earlier for just a few minutes . |
| 5 | For just a few minutes out there I was holding a real live flesh-and-blood woman in my arms . ’ |
| 6 | Maintaining that calm , uncaring façade even for just a few minutes had taken a lot out of her , and she felt the faint beginnings of a headache behind her eyes . |
| 7 | Now let me for just a few minutes , look forward if that 's not too presumptuous for a chair who is moving out . |
| 8 | and Clifford , no Clifford said , the lads to each other are we going out again dad you know cos oh Margaret was in , yes , and there was some other boys , the boy across the road was eating something and the boys said and Clifford said do you mind if I just sit in the chair and be quiet for just a few minutes and he just sat in the chair and had his heart attack |
| 9 | ‘ Seems like just a few minutes ago ’ |
| 10 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 11 | Sometimes within just a few minutes of the arrival of leaf-eating creatures , the tannin content is up to levels which make not only the leaves under attack , but all the other leaves of the tree toxic or at least unpalatable . |
| 12 | In just a few minutes , the encoded gibberish on the computer screen starts to turn into plain English . |
| 13 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 14 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 15 | It is this incredible flexibility that allows us to juggle page layouts in just a few minutes and produce a fresh piece of artwork each time rather than wait hours , even days , for the re-worked page to come back from the artist 's studio . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'll find out in just a few minutes , ’ Julius replied . |
| 17 | ‘ The director wants to see you right away , Marianne , and Dane asked me to tell you he 'll be down in just a few minutes , Shae , to finish off his costume fitting . ’ |
| 18 | We talk about the stress in just a few minutes . |
| 19 | Erm so erm what we 've got then is is the the idea of ah looking at some kind of behavioural analysis , although I 'll got into behavioural analysis in just a few minutes . |
| 20 | Besides — ’ again she pried her eyes away from the eyeglasses and looked at her cousin ‘ — in just a few minutes you are going to be transformed into a femme fatale . |
| 21 | Their eyesight can be corrected in just a few minutes by the use of a lasers . |
| 22 | Most of these accidents could have been avoided by just a few minutes extra care . |