1 The girl's table filled up a few minutes later.
2 The Physical Jerks would begin in three minutes.
3 I want you to turn your back on me for three minutes.
4 At five minutes past the hour the girl had still not appeared.
5 For a couple of minutes he had the feeling that he would die if he did not reach a lavatory soon.
6 It was not till a couple of minutes later that the other, more probable explanation had occurred to him.
7 As for the third message, it referred to a very simple error which could be set right in a couple of minutes.
8 If there was any relief, it was in his work, in which he could sometimes forget himself for ten minutes at a stretch.
9 As he turned it occurred to him that the girl had only passed him three minutes ago and that by running he could probably catch up with her.
10 The alley led out into the main street, and down the next turning, not five minutes away, was the junk-shop where he had bought the blank book which was now his diary.
11 Within three or four minutes he was out of the area which the bomb had affected, and the sordid swarming life of the streets was going on as though nothing had happened.
12 He did not know how long she had been looking at him, but perhaps for as much as five minutes, and it was possible that his features had not been perfectly under control.
13 He let what he judged to be ten minutes go by, tormented all the while by the fear that some accident--a sudden draught blowing across his desk, for instance--would betray him.
14 They had only lagged behind the others for a couple of minutes, but they took a wrong turning, and presently found themselves pulled up short by the edge of an old chalk quarry.
15 The queue edged forward till Winston was almost at the counter, then was held up for two minutes because someone in front was complaining that he had not received his tablet of saccharine.
16 But he lingered for some minutes more, talking to the old man, whose name, he discovered, was not Weeks--as one might have gathered from the inscription over the shop-front--but Charrington.
17 Actually, all the possible ways of communicating with her had occurred to him within five minutes of reading the note; but now, with time to think, he went over them one by one, as though laying out a row of instruments on a table.
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