Example sentences of "a few minutes when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 2 | On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites . |
| 3 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 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 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |