Example sentences of "spent five minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | The waiter recognised him and Sandison spent five minutes explaining in his ragged Italian about his change of hats . |
| 2 | He spent five minutes cleaning his nails with a nailbrush . |
| 3 | Every morning she arrived at our door and spent five minutes flustering around with her hand-broom . |
| 4 | Then we spent five minutes blowing cigar smoke at each other , until Stok said , ‘ Lenin did n't smoke , hated flowers , never had a soft chair in his office , had only the simplest food , liked reading Turgenev and always had his watch fifteen minutes slow . |
| 5 | She was a strong swimmer , and spent five minutes ploughing her way effortlessly along its length before surfacing to sleek her hair back and knead the water from her eyes . |