Example sentences of "a few minutes later " in BNC.
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1 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
2 | Although you may get ridiculously low because of pressing on too hard , when , a few minutes later , you are back in the good conditions several thousand feet up , you must forget the wasted time and concentrate on flying normally . |
3 | A few minutes later and I was getting into the rescue ambulance for a short ride to the Belford Hospital in Fort William . |
4 | Happily he missed , tried the shot again a few minutes later , and middled it . |
5 | A few minutes later music drones from his room . |
6 | We reached Brigade H.Q a few minutes later and drove the jeep round to the back of the house where we unloaded the canisters . |
7 | She disappeared back into the kitchen and returned a few minutes later carrying a very dirty and dusty bottle of wine . |
8 | A few minutes later you are walking up a short wooden ladder , round the corner and you find a 200ft waterfall — bridges cross the torrent twice before you reach the top and continue along the path . |
9 | So I hung around and , sure enough , a few minutes later a squad car turned up all its lights flashing . |
10 | A few minutes later , Erika sat by Omi . |
11 | A few minutes later , the Base Notes come through , and you 're left with the final , true fragrance created by the Master perfumer , Guy Robert , creator of scents for Dior and Hermès . |
12 | A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion . |
13 | A few minutes later Branco sent a typically fiendish Brazilian free-kick dipping and swerving past the wall and Van Breukelen , who rarely encountered anything like this in his Nottingham Forest days , punched the ball clear without knowing much about it . |
14 | A few minutes later he breathlessly approached the car from the opposite direction , fell into his seat , and said : ‘ Well , that 's all right . |
15 | A few minutes later , feeling decidedly the worse for wear after the last Armagnac had been downed , Mark moved unsteadily into the lift with his voluptuous mate . |
16 | His morale was uplifted a few minutes later when the same Minister returned with a gaggle of additional members evidently called from the floor of the House . |
17 | A flashy piece of pop gothic from Joel Schumacher , Flatliners details the attempts of a group of brattish medical students ( Keifer Sutherland , Julia Roberts , Kevin Bacon etc ) to stop their hearts ( ‘ flatline ’ in medical slang ) , get revived a few minutes later , and in the process explore ‘ death ’ . |
18 | A few minutes later she hurried back and took him by the hand . |
19 | When Carter a few minutes later in the debate said , ‘ I asked my ( eight-year-old ) daughter Amy last night what she thought … ’ , what the audience heard was : ‘ I 'd better try to find a warm human illustration before it 's too late . ’ |
20 | A few minutes later he was uncorking a fine claret in Masha 's room , saying he had something to celebrate : he 'd been invited to breakfast at Downing Street to help brief Maggie for her trip to Poland . |
21 | He had , however , an appointment to keep , and a few minutes later I had the table to myself . |
22 | When , a few minutes later , madam 's pancakes were brought , she ate her way through a plateful of stodge with brisk fortitude which would not have disgraced a squad of Irish navvies . |
23 | Though he rejoined the race a few minutes later , Albers , who won the opening round of the series at Donington , was forced to call it a day four laps later . |
24 | The match , which kicked off a few minutes later than its scheduled 10.15 start time , ended on a bizarre note seven minutes into injury time at 12.15am . |
25 | A few minutes later he went to a room on the first floor to take a blood test . |
26 | A few minutes later Endill caught another glimpse of it in the distance . |
27 | He disappeared into the shelves and returned a few minutes later , holding a book . |
28 | A few minutes later Pet was back . |
29 | A few minutes later they were starting up Heymouth Brae , the road that connected Heymouth with the summit and world beyond . |
30 | Mrs Barnes set to work immediately and , a few minutes later , the child was born . |