Example sentences of "[verb] at any moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lay up all the following day , expecting to be attacked at any moment , but no enemy showed up . |
| 2 | El conde hovered over his kingdom like an eagle , sharp-eyed and cold , ready to swoop at any moment . |
| 3 | In my desperate fear and danger , I was like a pain-maddened animal , ready to kill or wound at any moment . |
| 4 | After all , I had no real claim upon your attention , and I knew I meant so little to you I could be dropped at any moment without a second thought . |
| 5 | Coutts had been informed that a cheque for $6m was expected at any moment from MGM films in America — payment for the distribution rights of Electric Dreams . |
| 6 | It was for this convict , who could be caught and hanged at any moment , that I had deserted Joe . |
| 7 | They went about their business , expecting him to appear at any moment . |
| 8 | In the exercise of his power of arrest , it was perfectly proper for the constable to have taken into account that ‘ there was a greater likelihood … that Mrs Mohammed-Holgate would respond truthfully to questions about her connection with or knowledge of the burglary , if she were questioned under arrest at the police station , than if , without arresting her , questions were put to her … at her own home from which she could peremptorily order [ him ] to depart at any moment ’ . |
| 9 | The maxim on which I act at any moment is the personal rule which is guiding my behaviour — for Kant it is of the essence of voluntary action that there is such a maxim in every case . |
| 10 | They moved out slowly into the corridor , Chen looking about him , prepared at any moment to thrust the knife deep into Herrick 's throat . |
| 11 | She had the air of a female terrorist ; someone who might take it into her head to shoot at any moment . |
| 12 | Her voice was stretched very tight , as though it might snap at any moment and tumble her into tears . |
| 13 | The telephone may ring at any moment and an account executive will be expected to know when a client can see the " Answerprint " of their new commercial or proofs of the latest press advertisement , so complete knowledge of the minutiae of the client 's business ready at his finger tips is required . |
| 14 | Ursula seemed somewhat calmer once she was home , not least because she was within earshot of the telephone , which she continued to think might ring at any moment , bringing news of Samantha . |
| 15 | Seaward there was nothing but a pearly opalescence which , though it seemed likely to vanish at any moment , effectively blocked out sea and sky . |
| 16 | It postulates that the actual rate of inflation which prevails at any moment in time may be decomposed into two constituent parts : ( a ) an expectational component , measured by the variable , ( b ) an excess demand component , measured , as in the Phillips-Lipsey model , by the magnitude of f(U) . |
| 17 | Maureen said that her mother seemed free of pain but he warned her it could return at any moment . |
| 18 | ‘ It could knock us flying at any moment , ’ she said grimly . |
| 19 | It was a nightmare from which he would awaken at any moment . |
| 20 | It was as if Chapman were a captain trying to keep afloat on a treacherous sea in a small boat that threatened at any moment to spring a leak . |
| 21 | You will , in fact , be so much in control of the situation that , should you decide at any moment that you do not wish to continue , all you have to do is open your eyes and you will be your present-day self again , exactly as you were when you first entered the consulting room . |
| 22 | Dennis eventually went off with her on his own , leaving Nicholson to return alone to their hotel where he acted out some kind of ritual guarding of their rooms , ready to forewarn of an attack he was expecting at any moment from some non-existent Red Indians . |
| 23 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |
| 24 | He made the stairs in one breathless rush , expecting at any moment another , more accurate shot . |
| 25 | Sometimes Bentham is represented as having held a significantly different view from that just described , according to which an action which it is right for me to do at any moment is either one which produces a greater surplus of pleasure over pain than any alternative action then open to me ( in which case it is the one right action ) or produces as great a surplus as any alternative ( in which case it is a right action ) , while all actions not thus right are wrong . |
| 26 | I left that meeting with the phrase , ‘ I am a lesbian , ’ ready to be spoken at any moment . |
| 27 | ‘ We might hear at any moment that it 's a bomb , ’ said Haig . |
| 28 | But fire can happen at any moment : the Red Watch was called to the King 's Cross Underground station fire . |
| 29 | He looked down at the child , surprised , as if the boy would vanish at any moment , leaving him holding nothing . |
| 30 | ‘ There are twenty thousand people over there and this thing could fire at any moment . ’ |