Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 2 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 3 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 4 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 5 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 6 | I wonder if you 'd care to wander up for a few minutes and we could perhaps move this matter of Gray on a bit ? |
| 7 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 8 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 9 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 10 | The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe . |
| 11 | Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes . |
| 12 | However , he ran into a familiar stumbling-block : the concerto and the Souvenir add up to a few minutes less than the magic number of 55 , so he was forced to abandon the idea . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going out for a few minutes . ’ |
| 14 | It will make up for the thirty-five minutes you were late . ’ |
| 15 | Cos I 've got to go out in a few minutes . |
| 16 | Ramesh K was then brought in for a few minutes . |
| 17 | I have another important foreign call coming through in a few minutes , so , if you 'll excuse me , I 'll hand you over to the Chief Accountant now . " |
| 18 | Welcome back to Central News South : Coming up in a few minutes , the farmer who 's taken maternity hospital technology and adapted it for the lambing season . |
| 19 | Welcome back to Central News : coming up in a few minutes , the sheep farmer who 's opened his farm yard to the public for the lambing season . |
| 20 | Coming up in a few minutes , the artist who 's had a six year love affair with the Malvern Hills . |
| 21 | Welcome back : Coming up in a few minutes , the wallaby farmer who 's got something of a baby boom on his hands . |
| 22 | Welcome back : Coming up in a few minutes . |
| 23 | I 've only popped in for a few minutes . |
| 24 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 25 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |
| 26 | The 5 sins were such things as letting his Bible fall by accident , jumping about for a few minutes on the sabbath , forgetting that it was Sunday , and hesitating to lend his sister a book which she asked him for . ' |
| 27 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 28 | Even so , it was not unusual for friends and kinsmen to drop in for a few minutes , an hour , to see the news or a comedy . |
| 29 | Mummy will come back in a few minutes , wo n't she , for Susie ? ’ |
| 30 | Grant , the people could come back in a few minutes |