Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | From these , we can derive ( using the assumptions about the random terms ) the difference equations for the second moments ( variances and covariance ) , and then solve for the steady-state values to which they converge . |
| 2 | But then the other man seemed to regain control of himself , for the next moment he was shinning up the rope as though he had just realised his life depended on it — quite literally ! |
| 3 | For the next moment he was kissing her and she was instantly realising that nothing quite so exciting had ever happened to her before . |
| 4 | The behaviour of the distribution is characterized in terms of the second moments . |
| 5 | DOZENS of new leads have come from members of the public after a reconstruction of the last moments of stabbed businesswoman Jean Bradley , police said yesterday . |
| 6 | Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib . |
| 7 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 8 | From the first moments , when my brothers and I stood there incredulous as Blyth screamed and jumped and tugged at his leg , to the tearful farewell of Blyth 's parents and Diggs taking statements ( a bit even appeared in the Inverness Courier which was picked up for its curiosity value by a couple of the Fleet Street rags ) , not one person even suggested that it might have been anything other than a tragic and slightly macabre accident . |
| 9 | I could see this condition coming upon me relentlessly from the first moment Dana cast his eyes upon me : he was another who knew how to use the power of the evil eye , almost casually , to enchant total strangers . |
| 10 | From the first moment we spoke I knew you were a girl with great sensibility , and I admire you very much . |
| 11 | From the first moment to the last the lonely hour of the ‘ last instance ’ never comes . |
| 12 | From the first moment to the last , the lonely hour of the ‘ last instance ’ never comes . |
| 13 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 14 | From the first moment to the last , the lonely hour of the ‘ last instance ’ never comes. , |
| 15 | She told Lily afterwards that from the first moment she saw him , she knew . |
| 16 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 17 | From the first moment , Randall and Boot could tell that considerable power was being emitted . |
| 18 | Why was it then that , even from the first moment , the thought of Lorrimer in his sister 's bed had been intolerable . |
| 19 | From the first moment we met you wove a spell that has bound me to you more securely than chains could ever do . ’ |
| 20 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 21 | From the first moment I set eyes on Frankenstein , at the hotel in Sècheron , I had the impression of a man with a burdensome secret . |
| 22 | From the first moment … ’ |
| 23 | He was impressed with Myra from the first moment he saw her : " She was a tremendous talent with a feel and flair which can not be taught . " |
| 24 | Never trusted him from the first moment . |
| 25 | From the first moment I saw Inverness Doogie and his Welsh wife , Miranda , I had them down as a sort of suicidal Sonny and Cher . |
| 26 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 27 | ‘ This is something I should have done days ago ; something I 've wanted to do almost from the first moment we met , yet I 've fought against it every step of the way , just as you have . |
| 28 | In fact , right from the first moment we arrived back in London she 's done her best to make my life absolute hell ! ’ |
| 29 | Stunned that he had n't known from the first moment that something was wrong with her . |
| 30 | I knew from the first moment you were the man for her . ’ |