Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you ask me , he simply wants a few moments in sane and pleasant company , away from the madhouse . ’ |
| 2 | The elderly lady found a private moment in which to invite her hostess to come to see her in the room she occupied in her daughter 's house . |
| 3 | Apart from the considerations which I mentioned a few moments ago , it would indeed . |
| 4 | More empirically however , on the other hand , and drawing upon the work of Peter Bürger , Callinicos accepts the case for Modernism having contained a critical moment — a ‘ protest against the capitalist society to which it is in complex ways related ’ ( p. 53 ) . |
| 5 | QUEEN OF SHANNON had tears and not champagne flowing by winning at Salisbury yesterday — but she could not have picked a better moment . |
| 6 | But whether you are here for the first or merely the latest time , as you enter the square — better still , as you emerge into it , blinking away the bright Milanese light as you climb up out of the Metro — there can be no doubting its magical ability to conjure a timeless moment of calm from out of the bustle . |
| 7 | Between 1820 and 1870 there occurred a rare moment of historical calm , Nizan argues , during which French economic , social and political structures stabilised . |
| 8 | Cough worse ( < ) lying down which causes the most violent cough to appear a few moments later . |
| 9 | Clearly , the hon. Gentleman was not listening a few moments ago when I quoted directly the Governor of the Bank of England saying that the conditions necessary to underpin a sustained recovery are now in place . |
| 10 | Herluin , when finally he did touch , touched as if the vellum might burn him , timidly and convulsively , and even when he had the book open , for better or worse , agonized a few moments over where to choose on the page , shifting from recto to verso and back again before settling . |
| 11 | His eyes lingered a dry moment on mine , as if to make sure I took the implicit compliment ; and then , as if to limit it , he turned out the lamp . |
| 12 | They lingered a few moments more to admire the Palladian house which stood before them , beyond an ornamental lake crossed by a fine stone bridge , lying in a fold of the rolling parkland , as if held in the palm of a vast green hand . |
| 13 | It seemed a long moment while they remained thus immobile and then the young woman put her head and shoulders down and rushed like an eight-year-old , knees doubling up and arms pounding . |
| 14 | Again , wait a few moments before walking towards the dog , assuming it does stay , so as not to cause it to bound off . |
| 15 | ‘ Wait a few moments yet . |
| 16 | The effect , Merrill noticed a few moments later , had been carried into the interior . |
| 17 | An occasional court appearance can become enshrined as mere ritual ceremony totally encapsulating a particular moment of time which can be easily forgotten . |
| 18 | In that case , Lipsey 's diagram includes a further moment of choice , in the box in Figure 3.1 where ‘ the theory appears to be either inconsistent with the facts or consistent with the facts ’ . |
| 19 | In case librarians and information scientists feel that the first stage of Taylor 's processes of adding value is not very challenging , I feel that I should spend a few moments indicating the considerable complexity of the publicly available information resource potentially relevant to business activities . |
| 20 | We would then spend a few moments sharing any relevant and deep intuition that had come to any of us , and it was remarkable to see what a full and varied message the daily passage gave us . |
| 21 | Knight , 30 , may not have enjoyed the success Grobbelaar has , but his career has rarely had a dull moment since he signed as a 14-year-old schoolboy when Ian St John was manager . |
| 22 | She could n't imagine he could ever have had a single moment of nervous insecurity in his whole charmed life . |
| 23 | Would n't it be better not to translate Billy 's invitation to come forward , as the people at the Welsh meeting understood English and it allowed a quiet moment between Billy 's phrases ? |
| 24 | Do you want to come back on that Mr or do you want to wait a few moments ? |
| 25 | The ideas are limitless and it is up to you to spare a few moments when on holiday to notice what is growing around you and press some interesting pieces that you will be able to use on your return . |
| 26 | Now that was the point I made a few moments ago . |
| 27 | Kubla Khan represents a strange moment in this decline , a moment in which Coleridge is fantastically aware of the power of his mind , and yet is not depressed by its imagery . |
| 28 | But I can do what I want , so perhaps it is possible to use one or two frames of a timpani shot to realize a particular moment in the music . |
| 29 | For the ‘ dogmatic dialectic ’ , as he describes dialectical materialism , the whole question naturally poses no problem , for each person or group simply constitutes a partial moment of an already operative movement of totalization that produces them and then goes beyond them . |
| 30 | He resembled nothing so much as an old man reliving a glorious moment of his past . |