Example sentences of "seconds and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But join us in ninety seconds and we 'll have a crack at it . |
| 2 | Maybe just a few more seconds and they would have fired him and he would n't be in this position now . |
| 3 | forty nine seconds and they can build a car |
| 4 | The district nurse comes to give her the monthly vitamin injections for her anaemia — takes about ten seconds and she 's gone . |
| 5 | Luke was silent for several seconds and she began to suspect that he had fallen asleep . |
| 6 | Another few seconds and he might have fainted . |
| 7 | Still , a few more seconds and he would be free . |
| 8 | Thirty seconds and he would turn off the road . |
| 9 | ‘ Another 90 seconds and he would have made it . ’ |
| 10 | He added : ‘ Another 90 seconds and he would have made it . ’ |
| 11 | However a lap later McCall had passed him and led by 20 seconds and he stretched his lead all the way to the finish . |
| 12 | At a press conference he warned parents : ‘ Poor James only went missing from his mother for a matter of seconds and he had gone , disappeared . |
| 13 | and fly them , and they usually flew for about ten seconds and he smashed it ! |
| 14 | I said oh , about forty seconds and he sort of looked . |
| 15 | Give him thirty seconds and you will have knitting . |
| 16 | Another five seconds and you 'd have had to scrape me off the underside of this thing . ’ |
| 17 | Crucially , it 's faster ; it wo n't take an age to scroll through a document , spell checking takes only seconds and you wo n't find yourself waiting for the word processor to catch up with your touch typing . |
| 18 | Well it 's , look he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark , ten seconds later he passed the two hundred and fifty metre mark , how far did he run in ten seconds and you 've put down a hundred metres |
| 19 | Now , two seconds and you go to bed ! |
| 20 | It lasted only ten seconds and it was at four in the morning when nobody was around . |
| 21 | Twenty seconds and it began to do its own action replay . |
| 22 | I mean , you can have a an X J six running for ten seconds and it uses hardly any petrol . |
| 23 | It 'll do 165 mph and 0 to 60 in under 6 seconds and it 's a mere snip at less than £80,000 . |
| 24 | Lasted yeah lasted about two seconds and it was twice and basically |
| 25 | Ramadan , ’ he would say and close his eyes as the hot air dried him in seconds and I retreated even further under the wilting greenery . |
| 26 | Nicola , who had shed tears of disappointment , said : ‘ Another two seconds and I would have been Olympic champion — the girl 's eyes were going red . |
| 27 | It was difficult to raise the vein as the filly staggered around , but she came to rest for a few seconds and I dug my thumb into the jugular furrow . |