Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] for [adj] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 2 | Manning Jackson had been fretting for several minutes . |
| 3 | Indeed , I recall being present at a formal state banquet in Malawi when the Life President , His Excellency the very elderly Dr Hastings Banda , had been speaking for 45 minutes proposing the toast and had still only reached 1947 . |
| 4 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 5 | The UK government measures the lead in tapwater that has been running for several minutes , as it would be if you had a bath in it , and not the first few pints or cupfuls , as you would use for cooking or making a cup of tea . |
| 6 | Over two hours , this can be wearing for two minutes it 's fine . |
| 7 | ‘ He was told in writing that he was only going to be narrating for five minutes of the video , which is not what happened . |
| 8 | ‘ Do we have enough air ? ’ ; through controlling proceedings : ‘ I 'll be talking for ten minutes , with five minutes for questions at the end ’ ; and through acting as guide to the presentation , by commenting on the route , ‘ So that 's my second point . |
| 9 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 10 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 11 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 12 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 13 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 14 | Holden was missing for 18 minutes and Reid admitted : ‘ We took a calculated gamble by not replacing Rick — and it did not come off . ’ |