Example sentences of "[art] few minutes [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So apart from a few minutes to snatch a bite to eat , he was seldom off the helm . |
| 2 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 3 | ‘ Afraid your lords and masters will fire you if you allow me a few minutes to put the subject on hold ? ’ |
| 4 | All you need is a little understanding of what the end result should look like and a to spend a few minutes reading the manuals . |
| 5 | Newly renovated , the Red Eagle is a comfortable and well run hotel offering excellent facilities , set conveniently just a few minutes form the centre of the resort . |
| 6 | A murder trial jury has been told that a teenager who was left in charge of a baby girl for a few minutes killed the child by picking her up and smashing her head against a wall . |
| 7 | It would take only a few minutes to open a door , search out the riding boots and pour a little mercury over each spur . ’ |
| 8 | Daak spent a few minutes kicking the remains of the pilot out of the front of the cockpit , and then settled himself into the pilot 's bucket seat and swivelled lazily from side to side , waiting for the women . |
| 9 | So this evening , as we come to the end of one year and prepare for the next , can we spend a few minutes doing a spiritual work-out and look at the consequences of what John wrote about the uniqueness of Jesus . |
| 10 | If the ingredients are still hot just place under a hot grill for a few minutes to brown the top . |
| 11 | After being given a few minutes to study the diagram the sender is told to go ahead and the time is noted . |
| 12 | To the Frenchmen behind , they must look like a couple of young lovers — youngish , anyway — who had stepped outside for a few minutes to admire the sights . |
| 13 | It took me a few minutes to get the hang of things when I put the Legend through an amp . |
| 14 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
| 15 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
| 16 | Once you know the volume and page of your statute in the main work ( or in the Continuation Volumes ) , it only takes a few minutes to find the annotations in the Cumulative Supplement and Current Statutes Service . |
| 17 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |