Example sentences of "[adv] be a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will only be a moment . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll only be a moment … and maybe we 'll do an extra blood-sugar reading in a little while to make sure being upset is n't making it go wonky . ’ |
| 3 | A test can not be a moment of pure empirical truth where theory is judged against reality . |
| 4 | There can not be a moment from which it passes from the class of invalid into that of valid covenants " . |
| 5 | It had always been a moment of pure magic to him in the theatre , the consciousness of the huge rustling animal behind him , and the hush as the house lights went down , the pause of utter stillness , silence , and then as he brought his baton down , the incredible surge of excitement as music smashed the silence , created instantly the illusion of that otherworld that did n't really exist . |
| 6 | When , she thought , had there ever been a moment when she had been unsure that she disliked him ? |
| 7 | Looking back I realise that , if there ever was a moment when I might have quit , admitted defeat and abandoned the Cathedral to throw myself on the mercy of school , home or child guidance clinic , this was that moment . |
| 8 | One of those deep troughs of dust could suck his wheels down , and there 'd be nobody passing on this road , not for days , maybe , maybe not even then , and he had n't thought to bring water along or tell anybody where he 'd gone , it had all happened too fast , there had n't been a moment . |
| 9 | Often they result from particularly stressful circumstances but they may simply be a moment of carelessness . |
| 10 | I wo n't be a moment . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Mummy wo n't be a moment . ’ |
| 12 | I wo n't be a moment . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I wo n't be a moment . |
| 14 | I wo n't be a moment . ’ |
| 15 | I wo n't be a moment , ’ Laidlaw said , indicating the counter behind him . |
| 16 | ‘ Mrs. Hennessy wo n't be a moment , Tess . |
| 17 | I sha n't be a moment finishing off my share of him , and then you can have the bones . " |
| 18 | He 's jus just upstai he 's just upstairs so I sha n't be a moment I 'll go and call him . |
| 19 | ‘ Kettle wo n't be a moment . |
| 20 | ‘ Answer that , Claudia , and tell Roman I wo n't be a moment . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I wo n't be a moment . |
| 22 | ‘ He then said ‘ I wo n't be a moment ’ and disappeared for his warm up then he walked back into the changing room , stripped off to the waist again , carried on his conversation and continued drinking his beer . ’ |
| 23 | Sha n't be a moment . |
| 24 | I wo n't be a moment . |
| 25 | No it might have some more information , I wo n't be a moment . |
| 26 | Here is a moment when the danger to the dismasted Hurrying Angel becomes apparent to the exhausted crew as the light grows and they can view the sea they had been fighting in the dark : |
| 27 | Before they sat down there was a moment 's pause . |
| 28 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 29 | There had never been a moment like it . |