Example sentences of "a minute [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wait a minute me only |
| 2 | For a minute they walked in silence hearing the rustle of the long grasses over their shoes . |
| 3 | She did n't reply , and for about a minute they sat in silence , facing each other . |
| 4 | In under a minute they 'd made two sharp lefts and a squealing right , and were roaring down a back street so narrow the least miscalculation would have taken off handles , hubs and mirrors . |
| 5 | She added with more assurance that Beuno would also soon return from his walk to the waterfall , and then wondered aloud where the Molesworths were , because in a minute they would be late . |
| 6 | As soon as Luce had been helped in and settled the gondolier plied his oar , and in less than a minute they were on the Grand Canal . |
| 7 | Oh sorry , just a minute they 're playing eighteen . |
| 8 | I never thought for a minute we 'd come off that green with a shot in hand ; maybe one shot behind , never in front . |
| 9 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 10 | Sure enough , within less than a minute we spot the sun glinting off the visiting aircraft already there and , after an overhead join to read the signals square , we land on Crowfield 's runway with the self-satisfaction of a flight well-conducted . |
| 11 | And in a minute we 'll be passing the Tower of London . ’ |
| 12 | I do n't think for a minute we 'll have to . ’ |
| 13 | If you say I 'd like to er can you get this banker 's order , oh well wait a minute we need two signatures on that , or we do n't deal with banker 's order . |
| 14 | We ca n't go on paying ourselves that sort of money , we ca n't go on , and Mr I know in a minute we 'll talk about the number of people who attend committee meetings erm and sit in on them , and that 's increased considerably , erm , so I think it 's important that we do get down to this problem , we grasp the nettle , and I , I believe that will mean that we start to look seriously at reducing the number of times members come and talk here , and perhaps we let the officers get on with the action that they should be getting on with |
| 15 | Tt now if we just take that , that latter point up for a minute we can |
| 16 | What I want you to do is shout out as many features of the plan as you can think of , and then in a minute we 'll look at changing them into benefits . |
| 17 | In a minute we 'll have reaction from people living near the festival site , the local MP , and police involved in trying to control the festival . |
| 18 | Yeah erm wait a minute we got a letter from this morning to say that erm wait a minute , erm they 'd had a communication from Mr |
| 19 | Wait a minute we 've got to light th before we start everybody 's to sing and when I cut the cake , the pink bit is decoration so you do n't eat the pink bit but you eat all the rest of it , alright ? |
| 20 | Wait a minute we have soap in |
| 21 | Erm ooh wait a minute we 're saying , we 're saying than Edmund are n't we ? |
| 22 | Keep your head still a minute we want to look at your nutter . |
| 23 | For about half a minute he did not reply and I thought that he either did not understand English or was trying to humiliate me . |
| 24 | After a minute he heard footsteps , and the door was pulled open . |
| 25 | But after a minute he let his hands drop and picked at the rubbish in the bin . |
| 26 | But after a minute he put her away and started the engine . |
| 27 | ‘ After a minute he came staggering out of the smoke . ’ |
| 28 | Every minute of his working day is a minute he invests in making profit . |
| 29 | But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right . |
| 30 | In a minute he had returned with Oliver . |