Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] a few minutes " in BNC.

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1 If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her .
2 She came back out onto the terrace a few minutes later .
3 ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’
4 Dexter smiled to himself , recalling his thoughts in the corridor a few minutes before .
5 He ran into the room a few minutes later and began to tear off his crumpled clothes .
6 Sycorax no longer leaked whatever liquids or foods she was able to consume , as she had during the worst of her fever , and Ariel could prop her up into a sitting position , and then , presenting her shoulders to her , go down on one knee to hoist her piggy-back and carry her to the privy in the forest a few minutes ' walk away .
7 But he 'd only been inside the place a few minutes .
8 Though he rejoined the race a few minutes later , Albers , who won the opening round of the series at Donington , was forced to call it a day four laps later .
9 She walked into the sitting-room a few minutes later as he was replacing the phone .
10 She 'd hopped into the living-room a few minutes after Sergeant Joe had gone out to have a few words with Archie Cousins .
11 Watching the BMW ease out into the traffic a few minutes later and accelerate away along the road , Harry turned Nadine 's words over in his mind .
12 Alison reached the bridge a few minutes late , and she apologised .
13 ‘ I heard him being interviewed on the news a few minutes ago , ’ Bridget added .
14 At the climax to the debate a few minutes ago the hon. Member for Cunninghame , South ( Mr. Lambie ) was addressing a single Labour Back Bencher .
15 For if that sudden drift of snow in the air a few minutes ago had seemed romantic to the young bride — or the bride 's mother — it had not in any way pleased Cara .
16 When he eventually embarked to be rowed out to the ship , ‘ it blew up just before he reached her , it appears that , if he had left the shore a few minutes sooner , he must have perished with the rest on board ’
17 Mary was standing in the middle of her room when they opened the door a few minutes later .
18 ( 60 ) She was heard to shut the door a few minutes later .
19 When Sarella pushed open the big old doors of the refectory a few minutes after eight she found the high-domed room beyond her deserted .
20 Once I did this under the eye of a policeman who nabbed me for parking on a yellow line when I emerged from the bank a few minutes later .
21 I now allow the painting a few minutes to dry .
22 I now allow the painting a few minutes to dry .
23 On her return to the party a few minutes later , she almost bumped into James , who placed his clammy hands on her bare shoulders and squeezed them .
24 Ian equalised for the Palace a few minutes after coming on to the field , then put us ahead in extra-time for one of the most telling substitutions in the annals of the great competition
25 When we spilled out into the street a few minutes later , it was in a kind of glow .
26 He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre .
27 Frank , one of the day men brought it in on a trolley a few minutes later .
28 Professor St John Goth heard a door a few minutes before he last looked at his watch at twelve-forty-five .
29 It was a fine effort to give Ports the lead but they 'll be disappointed at conceding an equaliser a few minutes later .
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