Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a few minute " in BNC.
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| 31 | But even allowing for those one strong young man could have come up the stairs to Wolski 's room and in a few minutes and one journey have stripped that soulless place of all evidence that for almost three decades , since 1946 , Wolski had lived there . |
| 32 | Now the driver of the car had been traced and in a few minutes would be appearing at committal proceedings in the Magistrates ' Court on charges of dangerous driving , failing to report an accident , and failing to stop at the scene of an accident . |
| 33 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
| 34 | ‘ Debauched little madam , what am I going to do with you ? ’ he teased , and in a few minutes had shown her very definitely what possibilities he had in mind . |
| 35 | Only five or six farms were involved in this tragedy ; but for a few minutes at least we traverse fields brought into being by the high-handed action of a fifteenth-century squire , and pass by the mounds where the hamlet of Holyoak once stood . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy . |
| 38 | At first she pulled back , but after a few minutes she relaxed a little . |
| 39 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 40 | Nicky Ryan can be a defensive man in the wrong company , but after a few minutes in my presence he seems to know I have ‘ felt ’ Enya 's music , and he relaxes considerably . |
| 41 | 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 ! ) . |
| 42 | Bella always tries , but after a few minutes she burst into tears and would never go near that room again . |
| 43 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |
| 44 | I was glad to stay and rest at first , but after a few minutes I became unbearably nervous . |
| 45 | But in a few minutes Israeli troops , armed with anti-tank rockets and machine-guns , had turned the place into rubble and 22 families , 140 people , had lost their homes and all their possessions . |
| 46 | Her earlier fears about what terrors lay in store returned , all the more powerful because for a few minutes she had forgotten them . |