Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] for [adj] minutes " in BNC.
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| 1 | A WOMAN escaped unharmed with her 11-month-old son yesterday after being held for 45 minutes by a knife-wielding kidnapper . |
| 2 | Two survivors — both women — were cut free after being trapped for 20 minutes in the wreckage . |
| 3 | This enables oxygen to be stored for several minutes , and during prolonged periods of submersion an accessor valve between the heart ventricles can be opened to bypass the function of the lungs . |
| 4 | The film had to be stopped for seven minutes , during which one man shouted through a loud-hailer , ‘ We , the National Front , protest against this anti-British rubbish , especially at the time of El Alamein . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps when his desk collapsed through sheer weight of mail he finally will realise that we simply want to be left for 60 minutes an hour in our blinkered little world of leather and willow . |
| 6 | A crowd crush at Ayresome Park on Saturday forced Middlesbrough 's match with Leeds United to be suspended for 15 minutes , and so alarmed the Leeds manager , Howard Wilkinson , that he clambered on to the perimeter fencing to appeal for calm . |
| 7 | A crowd crush at Ayresome Park on Saturday forced Middlesbrough 's match with Leeds United to be suspended for 15 minutes , and so alarmed the Leeds manager , Howard Wilkinson , that he clambered on to the perimeter fencing to appeal for calm . |
| 8 | Resigned to being detained for several minutes , Melissa forced herself to be pleasant , making suitable replies to his comments on the weather and agreeing that it was a bit unsettled , that frost was still likely to be a problem but was only to be expected at this time of year . |