Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for a minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ca n't think of anywhere myself , let me think for a minute . |
| 2 | When it is my turn to use the phone , I stand for a minute with two ten pence coins in my hand . |
| 3 | No you see I , see how I go for a minute |
| 4 | I thought for a minute , then I said , ‘ Yes , I can keep a secret . ’ |
| 5 | I thought for a minute you had that look about you . ’ |
| 6 | I thought for a minute , he said down to Mr Blobby did n't you ? |
| 7 | ‘ I thought for a minute you could have been Billy sitting there , ’ she said as she put the tea down on the desk . |
| 8 | Well Mary said if I thought for a minute that she would stick at it , I would pay for her but |
| 9 | I rest for a minute on our cardinal-red front step . |
| 10 | She stopped for a minute and looked out at the fields . |
| 11 | Now you relax for a minute , I wo n't be long . |
| 12 | At the risk of alienating most of our readers — I HATE THE GAME ! ( 'S ' okay , I 'm only joking — had you going for a minute there though , did n't I ? ) |
| 13 | Right now , sorry to keep you waiting for a minute . |
| 14 | She thought for a minute that he was n't going to obey . |
| 15 | She waited for a minute and then added , apologetically , ‘ Gran was foul to her , you know that . ’ |
| 16 | And then every year after that , they used to hold the one minute 's silence which the mill whistles went and of course you stood for a minute and then they went again and that was it over . |
| 17 | She pondered for a minute . |
| 18 | She pondered for a minute . |
| 19 | I mean why do people have to kind of , if , if , if we accept for a minute that there 's something in this analogy , this model that Freud is talking about , why do people have this compulsive need to repeat like this , why do they have to repeat history ? |
| 20 | So we motored past delightful mountains while I occasionally whined from the back seat , ‘ Why are n't we doing that one ? ’ or ‘ ’ That one looks nice ’ , or ‘ Can we stop for a minute please ? ’ |
| 21 | " They do the same thing to them they do to Indian women , " Braden said , and after that no one spoke for a minute . |
| 22 | Anybody stuck for a minute ? |
| 23 | ‘ You had me worried for a minute . ’ |
| 24 | " Let her loose for a minute , will you ? " |
| 25 | They sat for a minute in silence as if what had passed between them needed to be assimilated in peace . |
| 26 | He stopped for a minute . |
| 27 | He rested for a minute , weighing Karlinsky 's impending visit , dreaming himself into the spell of its promise . |
| 28 | Half way up he rested for a minute or so to rest his straining arm and shoulder muscles , then continued his exhausting climb . |
| 29 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |
| 30 | He thought for a minute . |