Example sentences of "[adj] minute i " in BNC.
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| 31 | In three minutes I had the Hispaniola sailing easily before the wind , along the coast of Treasure Island . |
| 32 | Now three minutes I told you it was three minutes did n't I ? |
| 33 | By the end of 90 minutes I was close to the tosh school , but still buoyed up by the work 's genuine pleasures ; the unflagging force of its energy , the wit of its timing and the comic unlikeliness of some of its performers . |
| 34 | For maybe 30 , 35 minutes I tried that and then I just felt it slowing . |
| 35 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 36 | He 's changing , changing some every bloody minute I think , he must change ! |
| 37 | I had n't asked him how he thought he was going to get in and for one terrible minute I thought he was going to shoot the lock and kick the door in . |
| 38 | For all that he could be expected to stay in the Lorrimores , car for at least fifteen more minutes I felt decidedly jittery , and I left the door open so that if he did come back unexpectedly I could say I was merely checking that everything was in order . |
| 39 | My dear Paul , in ten minutes I am going to tell my board that I have become a convert to Catastrophe Theory . |
| 40 | For ten minutes I never saw my float as the fish cruised up and down . |
| 41 | After ten minutes I heard the camera motor stop as the film ran out , but the director , knowing by now we could n't use a foot of it , let the old boy run on until he had finished . |
| 42 | ‘ In ten minutes I have to leave . |
| 43 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 44 | In ten minutes I saw a summary of the whole butcher 's shop of war . |
| 45 | For ten minutes I vomited elaborately , with steamhammer convulsions that I had no strength to resist or contain . |
| 46 | ‘ In ten minutes I will be finished here . |
| 47 | ‘ I 'll kill you now , ’ Woolley said flatly , ‘ and stick your fat body in my plane , and in ten minutes I 'll throw you out behind the German lines , unless you get me my booze and my scarves . ’ |
| 48 | and after about ten minutes I thought what the devil is she doing in there ! |
| 49 | Just this , tidying up about ten minutes I always fill the house up with junk ! |
| 50 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 51 | There 's one happening today in ten minutes I 've got a car waiting outside |
| 52 | In greater detail I could look at what kind of coverage we 've got , but I think in ten minutes I do n't have time to do that . |
| 53 | After about five minutes I heard a voice behind me say : ‘ Hi , there ! |
| 54 | And for five minutes I quizzed this wretched bird without getting a single chirp out of it . |
| 55 | Well if they 're not here in five minutes I 'm going . |
| 56 | We we we finish in five minutes I feel that |
| 57 | ‘ I get so fed up on a train that after five minutes I 'm howling with boredom . |
| 58 | No no more than five minutes I would say . |
| 59 | five minutes I think it is . |
| 60 | I thought she 'd be on that one five minutes I 'll see what |