Example sentences of "but [art] [det] minutes [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a few minutes ago I said I was dog-tired and hungry . |
| 2 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 3 | The word cottage conjured up in his mind the Smiths ' dwelling ; but a few minutes later , when he saw what she had called a cottage , he realised it was far removed from the Smiths ' dwelling as Screehaugh had been , in that it was a substantially built house . |
| 4 | But a few minutes later , there was no mistake . |
| 5 | The Dormouse woke up and quickly began to tell a story , but a few minutes later it was asleep again . |
| 6 | He turned to talk to me , but a few minutes later Ben was arguing about another of Will 's plays . |
| 7 | But a few minutes later he heard the rattle of heavy rain on the loose corrugated iron sheet hiding the way in , felt the first trickle of water crawling down the floor , and then remembered how long this place took to drain . |
| 8 | But a few minutes later they said they had detained the wrong woman and the real suspect was still at large . |