Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] twenty minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got about twenty minutes away from the house and the phone starts ringing |
| 2 | Just a short while Bobby read for twenty minutes or something . |
| 3 | A third signal to terminate the round is given after twenty minutes have elapsed since the second signal . |
| 4 | Continue exercise programme , increasing swimming to twenty lengths , walking to twenty minutes . |
| 5 | you know you stop for twenty minutes , put twenty minutes , and you , you just press return and it throws a map up , a map of part of England |
| 6 | Social historians might want to know that the average phone in the US was used for twenty minutes a day in 1992 , whereas the average phone in the UK was used for only four minutes . |
| 7 | He spoke in his most important and official voice , and talked for twenty minutes . |
| 8 | A farm on the other side of the lane provided fresh eggs , the stench of cow shit , and a rabid mongrel roped to a tree who barked for twenty minutes whenever a car went by . |
| 9 | Brando would keep everyone waiting for twenty minutes . |
| 10 | And if you 're still going after twenty minutes or so , we 'll stop you . |
| 11 | There were parts I would not have selected and others left out that I would have included , but as the whole thing had to be condensed into twenty minutes , I was reasonably pleased with it . |
| 12 | She arrived with twenty minutes to spare before her train was due to leave but , after she had queued for a ticket , was only just in time to catch it . |
| 13 | Yeah yeah , we could have had it going in twenty minutes . |
| 14 | Any process on a text of one million characters should normally be accomplished within twenty minutes . |
| 15 | Some played Monopoly ( which is a daft game to try to play in twenty minutes — even my Mum could n't go bankrupt in that time ) and others joined several games together and invented one new one which they called ‘ Scruvial Cluedopolybats ’ . |
| 16 | I remember making this point a couple of years ago , yeah I made this point last year and I showed these pictures , I spent about twenty minutes on it , the following week I was , I was libelously accused and it was a libel , it was a serious libel erm er that I , that I said that females always had to submit erm I was very angry about that . |
| 17 | It took about twenty minutes to ascend the 212 steps , but it was worth the effort . |
| 18 | It took about twenty minutes . |
| 19 | On Sunday he played squash and on weekday mornings he jogged for twenty minutes before work . |
| 20 | We sang for twenty minutes , the songs loud and impressive in the high-roofed hall , each man 's voice resounding with the alcohol and the nostalgia of Christmas . |
| 21 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 22 | The thirty-minute flight was followed by twenty minutes in a truck to a dilapidated harbour where a black-skinned man hauled himself from a motor boat on to the patched wooden dock . |
| 23 | So we 're looking at five minutes preparation , fifteen minutes role play , fifteen minutes play back , followed by twenty minutes feedback . |
| 24 | Anyway she already die , she not move for twenty minutes . ’ |
| 25 | Straightforward deliveries direct to readers took comparatively little time for ‘ ordinary ’ books housed in the Main Building : more than half ( 52% ) were delivered within ten minutes , and more than nine out of ten ( 92% ) had been delivered within twenty minutes . |
| 26 | As I stood in front of her , I noticed that her watch and a clock in the room had both stopped at twenty minutes to nine . |
| 27 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
| 28 | Marius and I waited for twenty minutes and then walked into Mike 's room , only to find him snoring loudly , unconscious . |
| 29 | It was a big place and he waited for twenty minutes while girls came and went . |
| 30 | Erm , how often do you go to a meeting or have you been to a meeting , which has to stop for twenty minutes because some clown has left the files in his office , and he has to go back and retrieve them . |