Example sentences of "[adv prt] for a few 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 | Why do n't we go and sit down for a few minutes and then you can decide what you want to do next ? ’ |
| 5 | Then if you 'd lie down for a few minutes , have a few minutes ’ sleep , you were right again . |
| 6 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 7 | Might as well sit down for a few minutes might n't we ? |
| 8 | Ramesh K was then brought in for a few minutes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've only popped in for a few minutes . |
| 11 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 12 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | I 'm gon na put me feet up for a few minutes , do you want now we 've nearly finished ? |
| 17 | We take our clothes off and I stick my penis into you and pull it in and out for a few minutes and white stuff comes out and you say ‘ Is that it ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going out for a few minutes . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Mr Drewer 's out for a few minutes — can I help ? ’ his secretary asked . |
| 20 | Yeah , and they 're only out for a few minutes and they 're fed up out there as well , and backwards and forwards like a fiddlers elbow go on I want to put those lupins in |
| 21 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |
| 22 | We pushed each other around for a few minutes . |
| 23 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 24 | The 5 sins were such things as letting his Bible fall by accident , jumping about for a few minutes on the sabbath , forgetting that it was Sunday , and hesitating to lend his sister a book which she asked him for . ' |
| 25 | They scream in horrifying agony , and thick gouts of blood spray over anyone in the area as the meats fly with a squelch into roasting-trays on the tables , where they flop about for a few minutes like dying animals . |