Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I saw him five minutes later eating sandwiches — posting them , Breeze , like letters in a pillar-box ! ’ |
| 2 | I gave you ten minutes or so of the lesson to look at some words . |
| 3 | The Rectory , when she reached it ten minutes later , was as silent and calm as when she had visited it with the Archdeacon on Saturday evening . |
| 4 | They joined him ten minutes later . |
| 5 | They allowed you five minutes from your house to the tram-stop they had selected , and then five minutes to walk to the courts . |
| 6 | One police source said last night : ‘ They gave us 30 minutes to find four separate devices in a huge area like that . |
| 7 | Some German military police took Tribe prisoner and locked him in a barn , where they shot him fifteen minutes later . |
| 8 | It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae . |
| 9 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 10 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 11 | It took me five minutes to put up the inner , which is erected first and another five minutes to fit the flysheet and peg out on one wild and windy night . |
| 12 | No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school ! |
| 13 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |
| 14 | It took me ten minutes to reel him in . ’ |
| 15 | It took me ten minutes just to stop shaking so I could walk . |
| 16 | Outside , in the terrible wind and the rain , it took them fifteen minutes to get the boat ready . |
| 17 | It took him five minutes to dress and leave the house . |
| 18 | It took him fifteen minutes and by the end his hand was sore from all the shaking . |
| 19 | It took him 20 minutes . |
| 20 | It took him 20 minutes to make it down safety and it 's an experience he 's not keen to repeat . |
| 21 | I got into a fight with a man whose IQ was so low , it took him ten minutes to say ‘ press wanker ’ . |
| 22 | Fred Rodgers said it took him 30 minutes to travel half-a-mile this morning . |
| 23 | It took him twenty minutes to get down to the town centre and turn into the street of tatty terraced houses behind the bus station were Nails lived . |
| 24 | It took him several minutes before he could talk . |
| 25 | Erm yo there was so many trains into Nottingham , into Victoria at twelve minutes , it took you thirty minutes into the Midland Station , having called at and , and all sorts of places on the way . |
| 26 | If it took you 15 minutes then you were walking at 4 m.p.h. : Speed = Distance/Time = 1 mile/0.25 hours |
| 27 | It took us five minutes t'bring ‘ im round again . |
| 28 | Anyway it took us an hour and twenty minutes to get there , it took us forty minutes to get home . |
| 29 | It took us 20 minutes of scrambling through squalid , ruined alleyways before we reached the place , clambering over burnt-out buses and cars to find some Christian gunmen sitting on a pile of earth , smoking cigarettes . |