Example sentences of "[pron] pause for a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | I paused for a moment , then said , ‘ Kathleen , let me tell you what I think would happen if I did as you say and then you tell me where I 'm going wrong . |
| 2 | I paused for a moment , then added : ‘ Why did you come , then ? ’ |
| 3 | I paused for a moment , then added , ‘ Would you mind if I had some pudding ? ’ |
| 4 | I paused for a moment to shout farewell to the driver , but when I turned , Mick had his back to me , leaning inside the rear of the Land Rover . |
| 5 | I paused for a moment , unsure of which path to take . |
| 6 | I paused for a moment . |
| 7 | She pauses for a moment and the van overflows with the sound of helpless male laughter . |
| 8 | She paused for a moment . |
| 9 | She paused for a moment . |
| 10 | When she had lugged her third skip up to the scribbling engine , she paused for a moment to watch Rose , who by now resembled a tar baby stuck all over with dirty wool . |
| 11 | She paused for a moment under a feeble electric light to recover her self-possession , drawing the clean cold air into her lungs , before plunging once more into the third circle of this industrial inferno . |
| 12 | She paused for a moment and then went on , ‘ Since thoo told me about t'baby , Aah 've been thinking . |
| 13 | She paused for a moment and then went on . |
| 14 | She paused for a moment before continuing . |
| 15 | She paused for a moment remembering how from her earliest days she had sat with her father in the small shed working the leather . |
| 16 | She paused for a moment looking for the right words . |
| 17 | She paused for a moment . |
| 18 | She paused for a moment . |
| 19 | She paused for a moment , seemed to be about to say something else , then changed her mind . |
| 20 | She paused for a moment . |
| 21 | She paused for a moment , staring at him . |
| 22 | It was as she was passing through the drawing-room that she paused for a moment to glance round admiringly at the décor . |
| 23 | She paused for a moment , forcing herself to meet his narrowed gaze . |
| 24 | She paused for a moment , then said delicately , ‘ You and Luke had a difference of opinion , I gather . ’ |
| 25 | She paused for a moment . |
| 26 | She paused for a moment , biting her lip as if fighting for her composure . |
| 27 | She paused for a moment , choked with emotion and dabbed her brimming eyes with a tissue . |
| 28 | She paused for a moment before pointedly adding , ‘ As to your other point , I must confess I think it would be worse if she ended up like you . ’ |
| 29 | If we pause for a moment and consider the place of the Neolithic revolution in the theory of human personality and society so far advanced in these pages we will be struck by the fact that the coming of cultivation posed a major threat to the psychological foundations of human society as they had evolved up to that point . |
| 30 | ‘ I had no idea it was so beautiful around here , ’ Lisa murmured as they paused for a moment on a promontory to admire the view that stretched out before them . |