Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] moments " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood perfectly still holding his balls , and breathing gently against his chest for several moments . |
| 2 | After considering this aspect of the case for some moments the Substitute remarked : ‘ You chose your man well . |
| 3 | Yet there is at least one moment at which Revelation seems very close and allegory does all but break through — naturally enough , a moment of ‘ eucatastrophe ’ , to use Tolkien 's term for sudden moments of fairy-tale salvation . |
| 4 | The bull lifts its head a little and gazes up at the Admiralty for some moments . |
| 5 | All sorts of odd moments occur during the day , in which a page or two of a score can be read and hints stored away for future use . |
| 6 | No point thinking of hilarious moments from life 's rich tapestry of jokes , Morecambe- , Groucho- , Woody-style : ‘ You mean you have n't had sex for two hundred years ? |
| 7 | The secret of exciting pop lies in corralling a succession of brilliant moments . |
| 8 | In fact Dorothy tells us more about the sunset and the landscape than William — and yet he is traditionally thought of in association with such moments of natural grandeur . |
| 9 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 10 | It is this sense which seems to be given the clearest possible confirmation in those moments of the portrait of the artist , where the brooding Stephen , Stephen Daedalus , suddenly emerges from his vigilance in a lightening display of strength . |
| 11 | The only workable categorization of Elvis 's music , as we have seen , is not by historical period but by song-type — or more precisely , by apparently self-contradictory assemblages of musical elements as they are mediated by the differential demands of varied songs at various moments . |
| 12 | The only small quibbles I have are the shape of the zip pullers , which sometimes dig into hips when a rucksack 's carried , the lack of a horizontal chest pocket to take a map ( very useful when navigating in poor weather ) and a wired hood , which would stop it falling over the eyes at inconvenient moments . |
| 13 | Capable of examining matters with a panoramic sweep and with a talent for adopting innovative and unexpected courses of action at vital moments , MacArthur was too readily the prisoner of his own prejudices . |
| 14 | But in the last six months his father 's image had begun to intrude on his consciousness at odd moments , in the middle of a meeting , across a boardroom table , in a gesture , the droop of an eyelid , the tone of a voice , the line of a speaker 's mouth , the shape of fingers splayed to an open fire . |
| 15 | We might just as well ask why , when we try to recall visually some period in the past , we find in our memory just the few meagre arbitrarily chosen set of snapshots that we do find there , the faded poor souvenirs of passionate moments . |
| 16 | The old town well merits a day 's visit , with its many handsome seventeenth-century patrician mansions and Town House facade , painted with frescoes of significant moments in Swiss history . |
| 17 | Josephine Thom creates quiet monuments to uncelebrated moments in women 's history using mundane , domestic materials . |
| 18 | Mr Benn , who often comes to our help at these moments , has promised that as soon as a Labour government under Mr Kinnock has looked at the books and realised the true extent of the crisis , it will realise the need for serious measures . |
| 19 | Old people who took in their grandchildren at such moments might have few resources and little space themselves . |
| 20 | Dyson continued to gaze at Morris for some moments , his mouth very slightly open . |
| 21 | Continuing to stand with his back to her , he stared silently down at the muddy green waters of the River Thames for some moments , before turning slowly around to face her . |
| 22 | M. Dupont resumed his conversation and I continued my way around the room for some moments . |
| 23 | She groaned , suffering all over again the excruciating embarrassment of those moments . |
| 24 | Then , in 1989 , he caused a storm over Wild Orchid , refusing to promote the film when Playboy published pictures of himself and his on-screen/off-screen lover Carre Otis in explicit moments from the film . |
| 25 | He is capable of cold-blooded or berserk courage in desperate moments yet is constantly afraid of being cowardly . |
| 26 | I sit there going ‘ Mmm' ’ and ‘ Mmm ? '' at appropriate moments and greedily noting your every twitch and shudder down by the pool . |
| 27 | It is important to emphasize that the policy statements of the CDP disguised serious conflicts of opinion at crucial moments amongst the polytechnic directors , but also were frequently at variance with the views of the principals of the colleges of higher education and other institutions , and with the sentiments of the academic boards or staff of the polytechnics . |
| 28 | In a meeting at the beginning of April , the City Council of Amsterdam , after having ordered the forensic laboratory in Rijswijk to conduct its second investigation , severely criticised the councillor responsible for the Arts , Mrs M. Baak , for her inept handling of the problem and her lack of initiative at crucial moments during the affair . |
| 29 | There were people of all ages , wandering back and forth , some studying the paintings for long moments others just glancing , some checking their guides , some making notes . |
| 30 | But there is no interconnection between these moments : although there is a recognizable Mr Palomar throughout , operating in a recognizably similar environment from one piece to the next , there is no attempt to construct a coherent and consistent account from his scattered observations . |