Example sentences of "[adj] minutes he " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next seventy-five minutes he will be the most important man on the floor-maintaining discipline and relaying all the instructions given him by the team assembled up in the gallery . |
| 2 | Livermore said : ‘ For 70 minutes he showed tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 3 | Fly half Jon Bland kept City going forward after the break with some long wind-assisted touch kicks and within 12 minutes he had landed two penalties to put City 10–6 ahead . |
| 4 | Again early in the second half he was just wide , but after 49 minutes he did succeed when not only did Wakefield collapse a scrum but they were also offside . |
| 5 | After a few minutes he heaved himself out of bed , but his leg let him down and he fell backwards . |
| 6 | In the last few minutes he would fumble in a inside pocket , and the Queen in her handbag , and they would quickly run through the formal subjects for discussion . |
| 7 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 8 | Within a few minutes he had noticed a scruffy individual walk into the Oak public house , Stoke Row . |
| 9 | After a few minutes he had spoken again . |
| 10 | He was horrified that even for a few minutes he could seriously have contemplated such destructive stupidity . |
| 11 | I did so and after a few minutes he said , ‘ Good enough , now you can continue in English . ’ |
| 12 | After a few minutes he replaces it with something more conducive to conversation , the Neville Brothers ' ‘ Yellow Moon ’ . |
| 13 | But if you leave a child for a few minutes he may find the pills you keep in the bedside drawer and poison himself . |
| 14 | ‘ Frankie would buy a wonderful new suit and within a few minutes he 'd look as though he 'd slept in it . |
| 15 | I was told how to contact him in Rome and within a few minutes he was on the line . |
| 16 | It was too late to save the rick , so for a few minutes he stood and stared at the flames . |
| 17 | Well , I was there , behind the bar , standing in for Marcus , for a few minutes he said , more like two hours , so I saw it all develop . |
| 18 | He was reading a newspaper , but every few minutes he looked up from it , to talk to me . |
| 19 | After a few minutes he raised his head and was now sitting motionless , pale and haggard but controlled , while Iris , her eyes moist with sympathetic tears , stood silently and helplessly by . |
| 20 | George drove , not going anywhere , and for a few minutes he said nothing , then : ‘ Ecology . |
| 21 | For a few minutes he remained silent and she wondered where the bright start to the day had gone . |
| 22 | After a few minutes he came back and locked the door behind him . |
| 23 | In a few minutes he was ready . |
| 24 | After a few minutes he burst into our room with a shocked look on his face . |
| 25 | For the few minutes he was trapped there he could feel the pull of the ocean on his legs . |
| 26 | Then , after going on like that for a few minutes he took my hand and said , ‘ Faith you were absolutely rubbish ! ’ with that famous dead-pan expression . |
| 27 | My Donald had terrible injuries , yet for a few minutes he lived . |
| 28 | ‘ . After another 10 minutes he is with me . |
| 29 | Every two or three minutes he stops and speaks with the crowd . |
| 30 | MARTIN O'NEILL , the Wycombe Wanderers manager , emerged cheerfully to face the press , extolling the virtues of what had been , by his own admission , one of the most gruelling 90 minutes he had endured this season . |