Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skaters on the rink last night were given only minutes to leave before it was suddenly shut down . |
| 2 | There was worse to come just minutes later , when striker , Dave Mitchell , who 'd already been booked , charged carelessly into a tackle . |
| 3 | It seemed only minutes , desperately short minutes at that , before she was riding smoothly up a huge curved drive towards a house whose long windows were ablaze with light . |
| 4 | She was awoken , what seemed only minutes later , by a heavy weight suddenly landing on her chest . |
| 5 | It was what she had thought only minutes before , so why did she feel this strange little ache to hear him repeat the sentiment ? |
| 6 | The accident happened just minutes before the usual Thursday night rush to late night drinking spots began . |
| 7 | Going home minute of the day ! |
| 8 | This scale shows both minutes and decimals as an hour . |
| 9 | So it says this scale shows both minutes and decimals and now use the scale to change these to minutes . |
| 10 | This type of display is foolproof and takes only minutes to arrange . |
| 11 | They can be very elaborate , with a separate little piece for the base of each finger , but a very simple pair works just as well and takes only minutes to knit . |
| 12 | It takes only minutes to clear a fridge of CFC gas , which is then stored in a secure container and returned to ICI at Runcorn . |
| 13 | Show them how to be concise when they may have only minutes or even seconds to put over their viewpoint . |
| 14 | ENGLAND international Ian Archbold was in scintillating form yesterday as he clipped nearly minute off the course record in winning the Red House six mile road race at Sunderland . |
| 15 | In equatorial areas the sun drops like a lead brick into the sea , light to dark taking only minutes . |
| 16 | Unpacking took only minutes . |
| 17 | It took only minutes under the hot jets to wash the last dreamy remnants of sleep away , and then once again all the previous night 's fears came rushing back . |
| 18 | It took only minutes for Lubor to drive her to her hotel , but as she thanked him for lunch and he handed her back her parcel , he replied , ‘ Lunch was a happy time for me also , ’ and did n't waste a moment to enquire , ‘ Shall we have a happy dinner together this evening ? ’ |
| 19 | The caravan took just minutes to burn through . |
| 20 | The caravan took just minutes to burn through . |
| 21 | 269 did not look anything like enough ; and when West Indies reached 260 for 1 it looked positively minute . |
| 22 | Pour boiling water over the fish , cover it , leave so minutes . |
| 23 | It lasted only minutes by the clock and I thought , perhaps , I was over-tired . |
| 24 | But the buying spree lasted only minutes as sentiment quickly turned negative , despite expectations that the latest inflation figures will be encouraging . |
| 25 | Sure enough old Alan green was there , quite obviously watching a different match to that Id been watching just minutes earlier . |
| 26 | When another objector pointed out that the Pan-Am jumbo jet which exploded in mid-air over Lockerbie in Scotland in December 1988 , killing 270 people and scattering its debris for miles , had just minutes earlier passed over the Chapelcross nuclear power station , the reality came frighteningly close . |
| 27 | The station had been cleared just minutes before . |
| 28 | They stayed only minutes , most of them , pressing her hand and uttering the easy ritual phrases of sympathy and then departing , leaving their cards in the hall until the salver seemed endlessly overflowing . |
| 29 | ‘ You have only minutes now ! ’ |
| 30 | Streetsmart Ar-see-nee-yo recoils as if in fear from the guest he embraced only minutes earlier . |