Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a moment that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd thought for a moment that the fates had it in for him . |
| 2 | It annoyed her intensely that she should have thought for a moment that the dreadful feeling she 'd experienced when he 'd told her he had an engagement was jealousy . |
| 3 | In one bookshop in Kent you might have imagined for a moment that you were actually in a teacher-training college library . |
| 4 | In their discussion of the photograph , Trent had forgotten for a moment that Golden Girl lay miles inland . |
| 5 | He thought , They had forgotten for a moment that I 'm a policeman . |
| 6 | He had thought for a moment that Hoomey was going to ask him back , but he knew he was n't the sort of friend that nice mothers were all that pleased to see . |
| 7 | She had thought for a moment that he was going to have a heart attack from shock , but , recovering himself , he had said , ‘ Well , now you know , what are you going to do about it ? ’ to which she had answered simply , ‘ Divorce , ’ and walked out . |
| 8 | Before 1848 it had seemed for a moment that its crisis of transition ( see The Age of Revolution , p. 304 ) might also prove to be its final crisis , at least in England , but in the 1850s it became clear that its major period of growth was only just beginning . |