Example sentences of "the [noun] a few minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tommy asked when the duty corporal entered the barracks a few minutes before lights out . |
| 2 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 3 | She came back out onto the terrace a few minutes later . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 5 | Dexter smiled to himself , recalling his thoughts in the corridor a few minutes before . |
| 6 | He ran into the room a few minutes later and began to tear off his crumpled clothes . |
| 7 | Sycorax no longer leaked whatever liquids or foods she was able to consume , as she had during the worst of her fever , and Ariel could prop her up into a sitting position , and then , presenting her shoulders to her , go down on one knee to hoist her piggy-back and carry her to the privy in the forest a few minutes ' walk away . |
| 8 | But he 'd only been inside the place a few minutes . |
| 9 | Though he rejoined the race a few minutes later , Albers , who won the opening round of the series at Donington , was forced to call it a day four laps later . |
| 10 | She walked into the sitting-room a few minutes later as he was replacing the phone . |
| 11 | She 'd hopped into the living-room a few minutes after Sergeant Joe had gone out to have a few words with Archie Cousins . |
| 12 | Watching the BMW ease out into the traffic a few minutes later and accelerate away along the road , Harry turned Nadine 's words over in his mind . |
| 13 | Alison reached the bridge a few minutes late , and she apologised . |
| 14 | ‘ I heard him being interviewed on the news a few minutes ago , ’ Bridget added . |
| 15 | At the climax to the debate a few minutes ago the hon. Member for Cunninghame , South ( Mr. Lambie ) was addressing a single Labour Back Bencher . |
| 16 | For if that sudden drift of snow in the air a few minutes ago had seemed romantic to the young bride — or the bride 's mother — it had not in any way pleased Cara . |
| 17 | When he eventually embarked to be rowed out to the ship , ‘ it blew up just before he reached her , it appears that , if he had left the shore a few minutes sooner , he must have perished with the rest on board ’ |
| 18 | Mary was standing in the middle of her room when they opened the door a few minutes later . |
| 19 | ( 60 ) She was heard to shut the door a few minutes later . |
| 20 | When Sarella pushed open the big old doors of the refectory a few minutes after eight she found the high-domed room beyond her deserted . |
| 21 | They had taken out all the drawers to make it lighter and Matthew brought down two of the drawers a few minutes later . |
| 22 | Reporters for ITN were getting the results a few minutes ahead of the announcement , by asking the candidates . |
| 23 | Once I did this under the eye of a policeman who nabbed me for parking on a yellow line when I emerged from the bank a few minutes later . |
| 24 | I now allow the painting a few minutes to dry . |
| 25 | I now allow the painting a few minutes to dry . |
| 26 | On her return to the party a few minutes later , she almost bumped into James , who placed his clammy hands on her bare shoulders and squeezed them . |
| 27 | Ian equalised for the Palace a few minutes after coming on to the field , then put us ahead in extra-time for one of the most telling substitutions in the annals of the great competition |
| 28 | When we spilled out into the street a few minutes later , it was in a kind of glow . |