Example sentences of "[art] [adj] moment [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YEOVIL TOWN captain Mark Shail was heartbroken last night over the rash moment which may cost him the chance of playing in the dream FA Cup tie against Arsenal . |
| 2 | At the right moment we fling the ballroom doors open , there 's the sound of a spinet , the room is ablaze with candlelight — ’ |
| 3 | Talk to the exhibitors , too : as long as you pick the right moment you 'll find they are very happy to talk about their ponies . |
| 4 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 5 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 6 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 7 | The principal moment I 'm left with is a shot of two smoky essences in bottles , the sound of dry autumn leaves rustling through a chill night wind , and the voices of Cecil Kellaway and Veronica Lake , father and daughter , conversing from their adjacent bottles . |
| 8 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |
| 9 | At the actual moment I was transfixed with horror by the antics of the small black car . |
| 10 | He will need help , of course , other agents or what have you and at the appropriate moment you arrest the lot . ’ |
| 11 | That way people could stare at him as much as they wanted to and as much as he wanted them to ; then at the crucial moment he would lift his face and turn those famous eyes on his chosen suitor for the evening . |
| 12 | By some instinct , he knew the exact moment she relaxed , and she was shocked to find her sphincter muscle consent to the invasion of its domain . |
| 13 | the other the black moment you know th the bit where I I put in the bit where the he broke his leg and the mortgage was gon na be foreclosed on him I mean that builds up to the black moment which is a necessary part of the story and then he got out of it erm because the house relented and showed him where the copper kettle was that was worth the money . |
| 14 | the other the black moment you know th the bit where I I put in the bit where the he broke his leg and the mortgage was gon na be foreclosed on him I mean that builds up to the black moment which is a necessary part of the story and then he got out of it erm because the house relented and showed him where the copper kettle was that was worth the money . |
| 15 | When Scouting for Boys first appeared in a series of fortnightly instalments in 1908 , the fly-leaf of the final issue was already claiming that ‘ at the present moment something between 500,000 and 700,000 young men are interested in this scheme , which will come into full swing about April ’ . |
| 16 | At the present moment one can think of Chaliapin and Battistini among the men , Calvé , Bahr-Mildenburg and Ackte among the women . ’ |
| 17 | Cos it 's not actually working algebraic that calculator at the present moment I do n't know what you 've got it programmed in What you 've got it at but it 's not working algebraic . |
| 18 | ‘ I must confess ’ , Stamfordham wrote to St Loe Strachey , editor of the Spectator , ' … at the present moment I feel that His Majesty should do his utmost not to hamper in any way Ramsay MacDonald in , what we must all admit will be , a task of almost incalculable magnitude . |
| 19 | Yeah because if you want to go to Southwell at the present moment you go on a bus and you got to wait two hours to get one back . |
| 20 | I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help . |
| 21 | Well at the present moment it 's about , where he is it 's about half past five , twenty to six , so he is probably waiting for his supper I should think his evening meal . |
| 22 | She was n't hungry — her appetite had disappeared during the long moments she had looked into his amber eyes . |
| 23 | The memory of the terrible moment she had come face to face with Salt rolled over her . |
| 24 | 1 portable chair , collapsible ( you have probably noticed that , at the very moment you feel like a quick sit-down in an old house , all the chairs suddenly develop signs saying NOT TO BE SAT UPON , and all the window-seats are occupied by NT helpers ) |
| 25 | I am very happy that at the very moment you are admitted to your degree and become a graduate of the University of Nottingham I have the opportunity to shake your hand in congratulation . |
| 26 | You have established , at least in the eyes of others who were n't watching precise times , that at the very moment you were in the church , the Lady Eleanor was still alive . |
| 27 | UBI A girl who lifts her skirts at the very moment you wish she would |
| 28 | I am so sorry I could not revert to the ‘ phone at the very moment you rang on Thursday . |
| 29 | We should be looking to educate and train all people a lot more than we do at the moment where driving is concerned , so that from the very moment you pass your test you can feel confident , other people can feel confident and we can all have confidence on the road . |
| 30 | I must have been arranging those flowers , and setting the lighted candles round them , at the very moment my father was dying . |