Example sentences of "[prep] a moment [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn swallowed and tried to work out whether she should feel relieved or even more depressed and decided after a moment on the latter . |
| 2 | He got up and went out of the room , to return after a moment with a duvet , which he tucked around her . |
| 3 | One would not have believed his grubby Lada capable of such manoeuvres as he coaxed from its grinding engine but , after a moment of horror , I sat back and enjoyed the ride . |
| 4 | After a moment of uncertainty , the boy lowered his head , unable to meet Connor 's steady gaze , and handed the weapon over . |
| 5 | ‘ It would seem , ’ said Earl Robert , after a moment of courteous silence in deference to any other who might wish to speak , ‘ that as the last comer , this verdict sends me first into the lists . |
| 6 | Wycliffe burst out laughing and , after a moment of hesitation , Bourne joined him . |
| 7 | After a moment of hesitation they walked towards Timothy Gedge . |
| 8 | After a moment of silence in which she studied his face , she said : ‘ I do n't know if it 's of any importance , but they played a game . ’ |
| 9 | After a moment of looking back into her daughter 's eyes , Lizzie said quietly , ‘ She 's five years old and children seem to mature quickly these days . ’ |
| 10 | Peggy did not move , but after a moment of silence she said , ‘ I can divorce him . |
| 11 | Though after a moment of considering her question , seemed to think that there was no harm in revealing , ‘ I believe the dog does not take well to city life — he is up at the house . ’ |
| 12 | The MP knocked on the door which was opened after a moment by another MP . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , I 'm so sick , ’ came a wail after a moment from the other side of the door . |
| 14 | In showing capitalism and capitalist values to be the creation of a moment of history Marx negated the transcendental claim of capitalism to be the only possible natural system for civilized man , and in this way challenged the basic precepts of capitalism . |
| 15 | The position of women that Engels found when he was writing was therefore seen by him as the product of a moment of history . |
| 16 | Swinton 's only response before the interval was a penalty goal by full-back Wilkinson , but Kennett took advantage of a moment of inspiration to add a try in the second half . |
| 17 | The thought did not daunt her , but she had great need of a moment of silence , to take breath and consider how much she dared tell . |
| 18 | To me , that was one fragment of a moment in the studio that got to tape . |
| 19 | The final essay , by Prudence Black and Stephen Muecke , gives an account of a moment in fashion history : the appearance of the mini-skirt in Melbourne in 1965 . |
| 20 | To take advantage of a moment like that , well , it 's not very nice , is it ? ’ |
| 21 | The artful honesty of this novel 's conclusion — with Eupolis impelled towards a moment of self-knowledge which he is not quite permitted to understand — certainly makes the book stand out . |
| 22 | Here , among ‘ Prayer wheels , worship of the dead , denial of this world , affirmation of rites with forgotten meanings ’ , some of the stuff of Eliot 's earlier poetry and his anthropological researches , there comes a visionary instant of incarnation forming a link between God and man and , in Eliot 's own poetry , between Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets : ‘ A moment not out of time , but in time , in what we call history ; transecting , bisecting the world of time , a moment in time but not like a moment of time . ’ |
| 23 | spills like a moment from the past : only |
| 24 | The house looked the same , Sara thought , standing for a moment outside the gate and looking up at it . |
| 25 | Mahmud waved his shirt and the barge cut its engines for a moment for us to come alongside . |
| 26 | Grant listened for a moment for any signs that the slight noise of the brief scuffle had attracted attention from the floor below . |
| 27 | She looked at him as though in understanding , but she could n't answer him for a moment for there were so many things whirling around in her mind : that doctor and her Emma … |
| 28 | Something twisted inside her at the naked emotion that flashed for a moment across his face . |
| 29 | After the Reformation it looks for a moment as if the Ecclesiastical Courts would allow even a divorce in the modern sense ; but the attempt fails , and the only way of getting a complete dissolution of marriage is by special Act of Parliament ( and so the law remained , for persons domiciled in Northern Ireland , up to 1939 ) . |
| 30 | As Sharapour fell back it seemed for a moment as if he would get in the way of Mill Reef on the rails , but Lewis was alert to the perils of getting boxed in up the short Longchamp straight and pulled Mill Reef out to begin his challenge . |