Example sentences of "[art] few minutes [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she was lost , every cell , every fibre of her body alive with the memory of his possession , aching to re-experience what only a few hours , a few minutes ago she 'd sworn to deny them both . |
| 2 | okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed . |
| 3 | But a few minutes ago I said I was dog-tired and hungry . |
| 4 | Only a few minutes ago I felt a slight twitch in the boy 's calf muscle . |
| 5 | She was stationed now on the male floor and visited him frequently — sometimes in the line of duty , sometimes for a few minutes when her work was finished , often — as now , when she should have been elsewhere — for an illicit cigarette . |
| 6 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 7 | On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites . |
| 8 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 10 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 11 | A few minutes later whatever we had climbed to avoid had gone , and we descended to become visual again over the cliffs of Pentire . |
| 12 | A few minutes later they were starting up Heymouth Brae , the road that connected Heymouth with the summit and world beyond . |
| 13 | A few minutes later they had acknowledged Mr Bryant and his daughter outside their house , and then trudged home and stood chatting for some time on the doorstep . |
| 14 | When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty . |
| 15 | A few minutes later they were given a direct order to go to bed — and if you disobey a direct order you 're instantly put on report . |
| 16 | The following ‘ Arkansas Stomp ’ gets things going , though , and when a few minutes later they deliver a truly rocking ‘ Dateless Night ’ a great night seems in store . |
| 17 | A few minutes later they came out onto the bright and still busy Lower Road . |
| 18 | A few minutes later they were approaching the outskirts of the town . |
| 19 | A few minutes later they had reached the main road and were heading through a clear November evening towards the north side of the spectacular Cornish peninsula . |
| 20 | The following ‘ Arkansas Stomp ’ gets things going , though , and when a few minutes later they deliver a truly rocking ‘ Dateless Night ’ a great night seems in store . |
| 21 | But a few minutes later they said they had detained the wrong woman and the real suspect was still at large . |
| 22 | A few minutes later we were in Delhi . |
| 23 | A few minutes later we drew up at a big concrete building which the officer told me was the town jail but which seemed to be a large Luftwaffe barracks . |
| 24 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 25 | Farmer Nash was n't at the market , and a few minutes later we saw his angry red face above the wall on the far side of the field . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We arrive a few minutes later you see , to plan , and we 're putting the stuff in . |
| 28 | A few minutes later our train came in and we established ourselves in a first class carriage . |
| 29 | He had , however , an appointment to keep , and a few minutes later I had the table to myself . |
| 30 | A few minutes later I was led away to a cell . |