Example sentences of "minutes [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see . |
| 2 | And , like , we left him there for about five minutes and we just did n't hear a thing |
| 3 | And the other difficulty is that if you 're , if you 're talking on a controversial subject , and you give three minutes and they only want one minute , they might actually choose the one minute you do n't want actually used . |
| 4 | and Clifford , no Clifford said , the lads to each other are we going out again dad you know cos oh Margaret was in , yes , and there was some other boys , the boy across the road was eating something and the boys said and Clifford said do you mind if I just sit in the chair and be quiet for just a few minutes and he just sat in the chair and had his heart attack |
| 5 | stays on it on the game for about twenty minutes and he just sort of talks on and on |
| 6 | Here is Lawrence , bowls this one on the leg stump , push there , the short play , fielded by Morris and that 's a wicket er that was eighteen , DaSilva a hundred and sixteen minutes and he only had one four and if we remember his first innings when he scored forty-two , with seven fours and he was in only for that , thirty-something minutes , was it ? |
| 7 | Nicholls put him in after 51 minutes and he brilliantly chested the ball down before sweeping a shot past McKeown . |
| 8 | ‘ Our backs were disappointing in some respects against Monaghan , ’ he chides , ‘ We gave away two goals within a couple of minutes and you simply can not do that and expect to win championship matches — it 's not just on . ’ |
| 9 | This last pony I had , from Mrs to Soham church , she used to do it in twenty minutes and I never held the reins . |
| 10 | It took several minutes but they finally boarded the train , fought their way down the corridor and collapsed into the relative calm of a first-class carriage . |