Example sentences of "[prep] a second the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a second the icy eyes were distant , remembering something pleasurable . |
| 2 | For a second the boat seemed to be frozen as if in a frame of news film . |
| 3 | For a second the wind was blocked and the weight taken from my hands , only to come crashing back in double measure . |
| 4 | Imagination and reality fused and for a second the sense of foreboding intensified . |
| 5 | For a second the Duke 's eyes closed , then he straightened up and spoke very quietly . |
| 6 | For a second the shell lay with a smoking fuse amidst the wreckage of the wheel , then it crashed apart in a deafening explosion . |
| 7 | For a second the boat began to turn on its side , then the oars went down into the water and the boat came down the side of the wave . |
| 8 | For a second the echo , in Chertro 's story , of the notion that Ardakkeans were super beings tugged at the edge of my thoughts . |
| 9 | A groan burst from his lips as he mounted his horse , and for a second the world swam before his eyes . |
| 10 | For a second the count just stood there and then he came slowly across to them , his eyes never leaving Maggie 's face until he was close . |
| 11 | He responded more passionately , and for a second the faraway look in his eyes was replaced by knowingness and humour . |
| 12 | In a second the murderer was dead , and there he hung , his body swinging gently from side to side . |
| 13 | In a second the blaze was over , the mixture and the wasp a single black lump of scarred and blistered debris cooling from a bright yellow heat . |
| 14 | Sinners , prostitutes , and thieves can understand in a second the power of that argument . |