Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the second day , she wrote Louise a letter that she knew was inadequate but told all that she felt capable of confiding for the moment . |
| 2 | However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point . |
| 3 | This may very well be true : let us grant for the moment that it is . |
| 4 | Stead 's dramatisation of the issue of sexual exploitation not only stilled for the moment many fundamental conflicts of interest between participants in the agitation , but it also obscured the contradictions inherent in the ideology that informed this agitation against child prostitution . |
| 5 | She is wearing some beads now , hidden for the moment under her clothes . ) |
| 6 | Where the skin stretched taut along his cheekbones it held a faint flush of colour after the day out , the disfiguring bitterness in the blue eyes hidden for the moment behind closed , black-fringed lids . |
| 7 | The teenage PODs lived for the moment and their songs , all crash-bang-wallop-bang-crash , reflected this . |
| 8 | She was pretty and popular and she lived for the moment . |
| 9 | We were young , we lived for the moment . |
| 10 | They lived for the moment , and were completely happy . |
| 11 | Solution : Give up knitting for the moment . |
| 12 | Traditionally , the answer has been found in the study of the two main factors which were at issue in the years leading up to what is regarded as the moment of outbreak of war , the confiscation of the duchy of Aquitaine by King Philip VI of France in May 1337 . |
| 13 | With justice the treaty of Brétigny is often regarded as the moment at which , for the first time , both sides decided to call a halt and have their willingness to do so formally recognised in a treaty , one of the most important of the whole war . |
| 14 | In the history of the Vietnamese communist movement , as Duiker says , the Eighth Plenum is traditionally regarded as the moment when nationalism and a rural strategy of people 's war became identified as the two pillars of Vietnamese revolutionary doctrine . |
| 15 | Noticing that her hands are shaking and knowing that he has noticed she forces herself to act cool , not daring for the moment to analyse her disquiet lest she is incapable of handling the reason . |
| 16 | We 're silently praying for the moment we can plead sunburn and hide all out mottled bits under the outsize bullfight T-shirt . |
| 17 | Left staring at him while waiting for her full wits to return , Leith did not know for the moment what on earth was going on . |
| 18 | What matters for the moment is to examine the contention that the Roman catholic church had this special position only because of this matter of fact . |
| 19 | And that 's called erm er a special word which I 've forgotten for the moment . |
| 20 | One of Scotland 's more interesting ruins , Minto stands for the moment in unspoilt Scottish Borders scenery , which could never be ‘ replicated ’ in Japan . |
| 21 | So , forget for the moment the big tourist attraction : explore your local area . |
| 22 | So that we can wait for the moment when she sees you well enough to be sure whether you are Liam or not . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been excused for the moment . |
| 24 | If you move straight from chapter 5 to chapter 8 you will get a stark contrast between two theories of justification , and all you need to know for the moment is that I take the intervening chapters to provide a reason against any form of foundationalism . |
| 25 | It is enough to know for the moment that you are going … |
| 26 | The poetry above was no mere dream to be forgotten after the moment of its conception ( or the requirements of an appointment , as some have claimed ! ) . |
| 27 | None of us needs any particular other any more , so acquaintance is a whim , flowering or dying with the moment . |
| 28 | It was held that an applicant for a patent has all the rights which a holder has from the moment the complete specification of the patent is published . |
| 29 | In the latter he or she develops from the moment of birth . |
| 30 | The woman had no hope of escape but she did not seek one , revelling in the moment of attention from a Government Man . |