Example sentences of "there [prep] about [adj] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just sitting there for about five minutes then she got up , then she , ooh , sat down , then she got up . |
| 2 | And , like , we left him there for about five minutes and we just did n't hear a thing |
| 3 | They stayed there for about twenty minutes , walked where once there had been fear and intimidation , tried to imagine it as it had been , wondered who 'd died there , whose dreams had been shattered . |
| 4 | Malcolm went in first and was there for about twenty minutes . |
| 5 | well , she friend in the morning , so she goes to our friends so she 's there for about twenty minutes before they |
| 6 | I sat there for about ten minutes and then I came out . |
| 7 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |
| 8 | He 'd have to pull it very tight and hold it there for about three minutes to make sure . |
| 9 | President Gorbachev then left , as the boos and hisses reached the Podium , but in fact it is n't absolutely clear that he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration , or if he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration or if he really was only going to be there for about 20 minutes . |
| 10 | And President Gorbachev stood up there for about 15 minutes or so before the television pictures were cut . |
| 11 | They arrived there with about twenty minutes to go before lunch , which was just time for general introductions and for Leith to be shown her room , wash her hands and rejoin Naylor , Cicely and Guthrie Hepwood , and Travis downstairs . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'll be there in about thirty minutes , ’ the voice on the other end said , then there was a sharp hiss of static followed by silence . |