Example sentences of "spent [num] minutes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A botanist spent 10 minutes trying to identify it for me , while I fretted between the reception desk and the child . |
| 2 | PARTING was such sweet sorrow for actress Daryl Hannah and John F Kennedy Jnr , above , when they spent 45 minutes saying their goodbyes on a New York street . |
| 3 | The 22-year-old beauty , who was a pupil there between 1982 and 1985 , spent 90 minutes chatting . |
| 4 | For every five hours we spent hugger-mugger over The Dark Side of the Moon , we spent ten minutes listening to Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas . |
| 5 | He spent ten minutes attaching markers to the map , then sat back to look at the result . |
| 6 | After the service she spent ten minutes talking to war veterans . |
| 7 | One elderly Palestinian in Beirut wanted to draw a map of his olive grove for me and spent ten minutes sketching and re-sketching the roads south of Jaffa . |
| 8 | Finlayson spent fifteen minutes teaching Tribe the signals , and describing the blind spots of enemy aircraft . |
| 9 | She was a strong swimmer , and spent five minutes ploughing her way effortlessly along its length before surfacing to sleek her hair back and knead the water from her eyes . |
| 10 | Every morning she arrived at our door and spent five minutes flustering around with her hand-broom . |
| 11 | The waiter recognised him and Sandison spent five minutes explaining in his ragged Italian about his change of hats . |
| 12 | Then we spent five minutes blowing cigar smoke at each other , until Stok said , ‘ Lenin did n't smoke , hated flowers , never had a soft chair in his office , had only the simplest food , liked reading Turgenev and always had his watch fifteen minutes slow . |
| 13 | He spent five minutes cleaning his nails with a nailbrush . |
| 14 | The cash , in bundles of £50 , £20 and £10 notes , was stolen while they spent twenty minutes shopping . |
| 15 | They spent 40 minutes locked inside … another paperboy arriving for work raised the alarm . |
| 16 | A fuming Jackson said : ‘ I spent 40 minutes walking up and down looking for an official , and later two hours near the control centre , but nothing happened . ’ |
| 17 | Once inside , Princess Diana spent 40 minutes talking to the patients , one of whom had sadly died only hours before the Princess arrived . |
| 18 | After Minsky had made his point , Charles Bennett , a specialist in algorithmic information theory at IBM , spent 40 minutes speculating on predicting the behaviour of physical systems . |
| 19 | The hospital confirmed he spent 40 minutes having his injuries examined . |
| 20 | PRINCESS Diana held hands with a dying AIDS victim yesterday and spent 15 minutes comforting him . |
| 21 | Paula spent two minutes putting on her face first thing . |
| 22 | PC Edward Walls spent 20 minutes trying to resuscitate a 71-year-old heart attack victim at a Remembrance Day parade in Blackhall , Consett . |