Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er , she said oh yes please and I said fifteen minutes you know , she said , since I 've seen the Solicitor I feel a different person , I said you look different , you look ten years younger , she said everybody 's telling me I look ten years younger . |
| 2 | Last week a husband took his wife out for a drive and we had 45 minutes to get the place ready , wine chilled , chandeliers , and have a lobster dinner ready on the table by the time they got back . |
| 3 | This seemed to worry the two men , and they took several minutes to calm Bobbie down and to stop her crying . |
| 4 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
| 5 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 6 | The military passing by called up a helicopter which took her to hospital in Mogadishu but she died five minutes after her arrival . |
| 7 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 8 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 9 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 10 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |