Example sentences of "[adj] minute i " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 2 | I am hot and sticky from my drive , but the scent of lilac drifts in from the garden with the sound of blackbirds , and within a few minutes I feel much at home . |
| 3 | If Kegan had waited another few minutes I could have got it settled . |
| 4 | After a few minutes I felt pins and needles in my behind , my blood pressure was fine and I was allowed to sit up again . |
| 5 | Every few minutes I found some reason to stop : to take off my sweater , to put on my robe , to change from boots to training-shoes and back again , to eat some oats , to take my temperature , to redistribute the load inside the lockers and , when I had no other excuse , simply to rest . |
| 6 | After a few minutes I roused myself , gathered up the clothes , and went round to Dominic 's room , holding his key through a handkerchief . |
| 7 | Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics ! |
| 8 | Within a few minutes I not only felt but heard the tissue in the sinuses beginning to break up , and by the time he had finished both were completely clear . |
| 9 | After a few minutes I unexpectedly found myself singing a song which I was sure I had not sung since Eton days forty years before . |
| 10 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 11 | After a few minutes I realize this letter can not be written truthfully . |
| 12 | After a few minutes I take a look round the place , stepping under Moorish archways and over low white walls , past an astroturf tennis court and a swimming pool about the same size , uncovered and still . |
| 13 | After a few minutes I managed to get to my knees and use a pee-bottle , although after sweating so much , I ca n't imagine I needed to . |
| 14 | ‘ You managed to organize all this in the few minutes I was out there ? |
| 15 | He led me to his house and in a few minutes I had diagnosed the trouble — a flat battery . |
| 16 | But after a few minutes I saw the creature 's body begin to move . |
| 17 | I was glad to stay and rest at first , but after a few minutes I became unbearably nervous . |
| 18 | ‘ A few minutes I could spare , ’ she flashed at him . |
| 19 | For a few minutes I was free of this terrible worry about who I am , about my family . |
| 20 | ‘ For a few minutes I was at peace with myself . ’ |
| 21 | Of course all I needed was a two-minute sit-down and in two and a half minutes I was not only fully recovered and ready to carry on , I had adrenalin pumping out the top of my hat in anger that my man had left me to die . |
| 22 | If he was here this minute I would feel like killing him . |
| 23 | From this minute I am your wife . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If we do n't hurry we 're likely to meet Florian and Nicky in the lift , and right this minute I do n't think I could bring myself to keep quiet about the things you 've just been saying . ’ |
| 25 | If you do n't go this minute I 'll go straight home with you , and that must n't happen yet . |
| 26 | If I stay in this house with you for another minute I 'm going to go quite mad . ’ |
| 27 | The farm stands on a spur of moorland on the northern edge of the forest , and within 10 minutes I had turned my back on the corduroy battalions of trees and was striding under a still , cloudy sky over tussocks of rush and coarse grass , with my face to the long , bare shoulders of open hillside that flank the winding shallows of the East Kielder Burn . |
| 28 | Within 10 minutes I had found a suitable love-nest at the Glasgow Green , some 200 yards from the High Court . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't believe what 's happened today , but I have to say it was the best 45 minutes I 've had since coming back , ’ he smiled . |
| 30 | In three minutes I managed to put out the whole fire , and the lovely old building was safe . |