Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] minutes " in BNC.
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1 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
2 | Cream conditioners are massaged onto hair , left on for a few minutes , then rinsed off . |
3 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
4 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
5 | Why do n't we go and sit down for a few minutes and then you can decide what you want to do next ? ’ |
6 | Then if you 'd lie down for a few minutes , have a few minutes ’ sleep , you were right again . |
7 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
8 | Might as well sit down for a few minutes might n't we ? |
9 | Ramesh K was then brought in for a few minutes . |
10 | Even so , it was not unusual for friends and kinsmen to drop in for a few minutes , an hour , to see the news or a comedy . |
11 | I 've only popped in for a few minutes . |
12 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
13 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
14 | She measures out her guarded replies to him in neat , carefully checked words , as once she had suggested , from the top of the steps outside their front door , that Millie might like to invite me in for a few minutes . |
15 | In about a few minutes . |
16 | ‘ At one stage we thought Freddie was going to get John thrown out but they both calmed down after a few minutes , ’ added the source . |
17 | We 'll be sending one of our own men in in a few minutes . ’ |
18 | Inevitably they come straight down in a few minutes looking rather sheepish ! |
19 | ‘ Mr Parkinson is with Sir Ewen in the big house , but he 'll be along in a few minutes , ’ Bob informed them after Maggie explained why she was there . |
20 | I have another important foreign call coming through in a few minutes , so , if you 'll excuse me , I 'll hand you over to the Chief Accountant now . " |
21 | John Hendrie burst through in the closing minutes , but his strong shot was pushed away for a corner by Bob Bolder . |
22 | It was all over in a few minutes . |
23 | Battler opened up with the violin and it was all over in a few minutes . |
24 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
25 | Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes . |
26 | Can I please because I have to be off in a few minutes . |
27 | I wonder if you 'd care to wander up for a few minutes and we could perhaps move this matter of Gray on a bit ? |
28 | I 'm gon na put me feet up for a few minutes , do you want now we 've nearly finished ? |
29 | It will make up for the thirty-five minutes you were late . ’ |
30 | The video shop did n't open up until a few minutes after ten . |