Example sentences of "[verb] at that moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | What made you jump at that moment ? |
| 2 | The farmer approached at that moment and was angry with Tess for wasting time talking to a stranger . |
| 3 | Many inexperienced pilots do not even consider what the situation is going to be and only think about what is happening at that moment . |
| 4 | Most criminals would have panicked at that moment . |
| 5 | DeVore touched the pad , pausing at that moment . |
| 6 | The House of Lords was deliberating at that moment whether such people could legally be Trustees of a Church of England School ( it was eventually decided that they could not ) . |
| 7 | Dimly , in what seemed at that moment to have been another existence altogether , she remembered Jurgen and Horst arguing that there was actually something dynamic and hopeful about the forces of good and innocence being so demonstrably at risk from the satanic . |
| 8 | He was as usual training his sights exclusively on the goal currently in view , in this case the unification of South Africa , the kindergarten campaign for which seemed at that moment to require a concession to Afrikaner racial prejudice . |
| 9 | Marcus turned at that moment and saw her . |
| 10 | The latticework door at the edge of the veranda opened at that moment and she hurried towards him , not troubling to disguise her pleasure at his arrival . |
| 11 | Fortunately a gong sounded at that moment and Bertha sprang up with surprising alacrity and led the way to the dining room , where Randolph was already at the sideboard carving the meat . |
| 12 | Certainly what Devon Loch heard at that moment was not a noise which he had heard before , and it was some noise — a raucous surge of patriotic fervour as the Royal horse galloped to certain victory in front of his owner the Queen Mother and her daughters Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret , a rapturous climax befitting what was about to be one of the greatest moments of racing history . |
| 13 | He 'd write lengthy letters to his accountant , stockbroker , bank etc , most of which I tried to convince him were quite unnecessary to do at that moment — if indeed at all . |
| 14 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 15 | What was Fateha doing at that moment ? ) |
| 16 | I decided at that moment that I 'd had enough . ’ |
| 17 | He also decided at that moment , to his own amazement , that somehow , some time , he would have her as his wife . |
| 18 | Duncan decided at that moment that if things got really bad he would blitz the Russian with some of the Skoda and Lada jokes that were popular in the West . |
| 19 | He decided at that moment to make a victim of her . |
| 20 | In all these ways the place was perfectly suited to what Ramsey needed at that moment . |
| 21 | When he had finished piling the boxes up , Charles looked once more round the room and his eyes lighted on the very thing he needed at that moment — a torch . |
| 22 | The youths , being Moslems , were not having this from any woman , even if she were a great lady , and things would have gone ill for Zeinab if Owen had not arrived at that moment , on his way to her flat . |
| 23 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |
| 24 | The telephone rang at that moment ; Rachel answered it and before David had time to leave the room she said , ‘ There 's been an accident in the canteen — a boiler has blown up and two of the staff have been scalded . ’ |
| 25 | They were interrupted at that moment as Janice came hurrying over to greet them . |
| 26 | As she got to her feet he looked underneath her , remembering the equipment cows had , and saw that she had a semblance of the same thing , although nothing like so dangly as a cow 's , but quite satisfactorily dripping at that moment with what he supposed was milk . |
| 27 | But to arrive at that moment , he wrote , it is necessary to be patient , it is necessary to hold back , it is often necessary to do nothing . |
| 28 | His hands were careful and restrained , his mouth tender , and although only a very short while later , Cassie was to realize just how much self-control he had exerted at that moment of their first real physical contact , for those few minutes , she knew only that she was not afraid of him , nor even suspected that there was any need to be . |
| 29 | Any love she had for her husband disappeared at that moment . |
| 30 | ‘ As I said , it 's up to you , ’ said this stupid young man , who could have done anything he liked to me — or so I felt at that moment — if only he had done it , and not talked about it first , trying to strike a bargain . |