Example sentences of "[adj] moments [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few moments a truce was arranged . |
| 2 | And in a few moments a voice from that quarter , low and breathy , joined very softly in the responses . |
| 3 | After a few moments a voice said , ‘ Hello , is there anybody there ? ’ |
| 4 | For a few moments the corpse was trapped on a half-sunken log , then an eddy loosed the dead man and carried him westwards . |
| 5 | As we 're gon na be commemorating and celebrating in a few moments the sacrifice to the very point of giving his own life . |
| 6 | They did n't say anything , and after a few moments the silence hardened and became awkward . |
| 7 | For those few moments the atmosphere had changed , was as comfortable as in the Ayling days . |
| 8 | After a few moments the professor himself appears from a doorway . |
| 9 | After considering this aspect of the case for some moments the Substitute remarked : ‘ You chose your man well . |
| 10 | Donald Roy led the way when contact was lost with Mike Burn , for in these dark moments a dash for cover could plunge men into enemy defences . |
| 11 | I watched the Land-Rover grind its way up the track till a turn of the glen hid it from sight , and in a few more moments the sound of its engine had faded to silence . |
| 12 | ‘ Now I want to share with him from the earliest moments the joy , the vindication , the victory after all that we have gone through together . ’ |
| 13 | becomes at its most intense moments a journey , through distinctly modern music-hall conventions , to the most savage level of behaviour . |