Example sentences of "be twenty minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mindful of the stable-room boiler and the bucket , she gave him a brilliant smile as she stepped down and then she said , ‘ Twenty minutes , Murphy , ’ and he grimaced faintly again , as if to say he knew perfectly well she would be twenty minutes , ladies calling always were . |
| 2 | There were twenty minutes of extra time played , in which a kid called Martin came on — he had never played in first grade before — and scored the clinching try for Canberra . |
| 3 | it was very clever , I watched the first couple because people who like Harry Enfield 's comic characters switched on , just to see what he was like and before you knew it you were twenty minutes into a half hour programme and you stuck with it to the end . |
| 4 | Cos I were twenty minutes over the |
| 5 | How long is twenty minutes ? |
| 6 | The coastal resort of Morecambe is twenty minutes away and has all the amenities of a seaside resort including an open-air leisure park and Oceanarium . |
| 7 | " All we need is twenty minutes — have we that , d' you think ? " |
| 8 | Keith is twenty minutes late . |
| 9 | What 's twenty minutes got to do with bar four and bar eight Carl ? |
| 10 | Right , it 's twenty minutes past seven . |
| 11 | Right , yes , I might say that , right , Pam , thanks very much indeed , it 's twenty minutes to nine . |
| 12 | You know there 's twenty minutes you know and there 's half an hour of of tape when he thought he was taping when it was just running . |
| 13 | that 's twenty minutes that 's fifteen minutes |
| 14 | You 're listening to the Fox Report , it 's twenty minutes past six , I 'm Jane Markham . |
| 15 | He thought about the way that Overdene looked at him from his glass cubbyhole whenever Henry was twenty minutes late from lunch . |
| 16 | It was twenty minutes later when the ambulance arrived . |
| 17 | During practice the best time logged was twenty minutes . |
| 18 | She performed her task so well that it was twenty minutes before she brought him to a thundering climax . |
| 19 | It was twenty minutes before he terminated the interview . |
| 20 | By the time she had parked she was twenty minutes late and quite beyond caring . |
| 21 | It was twenty minutes later , and Morse had decided ( insisted ) that his temporary HQ in the Lancaster Room should be moved to more permanent quarters in the Chapters Bar Annexe . |
| 22 | Annie was twenty minutes away from there . |