Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] for [art] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sit down for a minute . |
| 2 | Right , just sit down for a minute and let's , Michael read his first . |
| 3 | ‘ Come and sit down for a minute while the lasagne finishes cooking . ’ |
| 4 | Sit down for a minute , he 's gon na be a minute . |
| 5 | No sorry it 's mummy 's fault , she pulled the wrong one , that 's it , good girl , I 'll er brush your hair in a minute , get all your knots out , right , sit down for a minute , well turn round , there |
| 6 | Greta Ross said , ‘ Please wait here for a minute , Mrs Sanders . |
| 7 | Cover again for a minute or so , then add the soured cream and beat the potatoes well . |
| 8 | ‘ Now just stand here for a minute and listen . ’ |
| 9 | He pulled me to a halt and said , ‘ Willie , stand here for a minute . |
| 10 | Just stand here for a minute and eat your ice cream . |
| 11 | Well while you 're just having look there for a minute I 'm gon na nip to the basement and straight back up again ok , I wo n't be a minute . |
| 12 | said stay down for a minute . |
| 13 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 14 | Benjamin 's modest but handsome little portrait seems to want to relay a message to us : I may not be blue-blooded , it says , but please do n't for a minute put me down as any kind of manual labourer — I belong to the established and rising ranks of the artisan middle-class . |
| 15 | I do n't , do n't for a minute think it 's from that hand , because you know the tingling , you 're s are you supposed to get tingling all time ? |
| 16 | That 's routine , and I do n't for a minute expect there to be any complications . |
| 17 | If you just step outside for a minute . |