Example sentences of "minutes [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the splash of the water , and the squeak and thump of the diving boards , the calls of the Indians to each other and an occasional squeal of delight from the child , it was still , and a thrush , lodged in a tree on the common beyond , dominated for minutes together the air above the sequestered pool . |
| 2 | Staff at St Heliers in Carshalton say doors were left unlocked for up to ten minutes so an emergency patient could be admitted . |
| 3 | After a few minutes more the conversation was beginning to flag . |
| 4 | She should also swim for 30 minutes once a week and do my video Thighs , Tums & Bums 1-2 times a week . |
| 5 | They do n't wait for 30 minutes once a week . ’ |
| 6 | He is allowed visitors for 10 minutes once a week . |
| 7 | She said not until five past , Mrs said you can get up them stairs , she said you go at ten minutes early every day ! |
| 8 | He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre . |
| 9 | Minutes later a flurry of Japanese cameras signalled the emergence of Prince Charles . |
| 10 | So I hung around and , sure enough , a few minutes later a squad car turned up all its lights flashing . |
| 11 | Twenty minutes later a taxi arrived . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening . |
| 13 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 14 | At 11.30 a large-calibre shell exploded close by and fifteen minutes later a woman aged 60 was admitted to the hospital with an open fracture of the thigh . |
| 15 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
| 16 | Some thirty minutes later a crowd of about four hundred dockers left work and marched through the city centre to their trade-union headquarters in Orchard Street . |
| 17 | Five minutes later a plastic bag containing his wet , bloodstained pyjamas and a bottle of antiseptic fell on his bed and he heard Murray 's heavy footsteps retreat down the bare boards of the corridor . |
| 18 | Five minutes later a passenger aircraft appeared overhead and took up a hold at 7,000 feet . |
| 19 | A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion . |
| 20 | A few minutes later a police jeep screeched to a halt outside . |
| 21 | A few minutes later a youth with a shattered left knee-cap was wheeled on a low-slung ambulance trolley into the Cleansing Theatre . |
| 22 | Minutes later every police station in the Metropolitan area was receiving a description of a man and instructions for every beat officer to keep an eye open , to spot but not approach , to radio back to the police station and tail the suspect but not intervene . |
| 23 | A few minutes later the lights went out . |
| 24 | A couple of minutes later the night silence outside was broken by the sound of a vehicle , presumably an ambulance , starting up and moving off . |
| 25 | Just 30 minutes later the westerly switched itself off — just like that , as the man said — and we had to motor sail for the rest of the voyage . |
| 26 | Five minutes later the door jangled and the man in the helmet and the leathers walked in . |
| 27 | He left them in a panelled solar beyond the hall , and went to inform his master that he had unexpected guests ; and no more than five minutes later the door of the room opened upon the lord of half Leicestershire , a good slice of Warwickshire and Northampton , and a large honour in Normandy brought to him by his marriage with the heiress of Breteuil . |
| 28 | Two minutes later the door swung open and everyone prepared to sally forth . |
| 29 | Ten minutes later the nurse checked on her . |
| 30 | Five minutes later the midget ex-chauvinist was on his way . |