Example sentences of "she [vb past] a few seconds " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she saw brought her upright , but , still foggy with sleep , she took a few seconds to interpret what she saw . |
| 2 | She hesitated a few seconds before putting her arm around the girl 's thin shoulders . |
| 3 | She waited a few seconds for any sounds that might tell her that her mother was in there but out of her range of sight . |
| 4 | Her stilted smile reappeared , placing a dent at one corner of her mouth , but she waited a few seconds longer , making sure that the ghost had retreated again . |
| 5 | She waited a few seconds and shouted louder . |
| 6 | The only certainty was that she had a few seconds to act . |