Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] for [det] minute " in BNC.
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1 | Manning Jackson had been fretting for several minutes . |
2 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
6 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |