Example sentences of "[verb] for twenty minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a short while Bobby read for twenty minutes or something . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He spoke in his most important and official voice , and talked for twenty minutes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Brando would keep everyone waiting for twenty minutes . |
| 7 | On Sunday he played squash and on weekday mornings he jogged for twenty minutes before work . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Anyway she already die , she not move for twenty minutes . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Marius and I waited for twenty minutes and then walked into Mike 's room , only to find him snoring loudly , unconscious . |
| 12 | It was a big place and he waited for twenty minutes while girls came and went . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |