Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dimly , in what seemed at that moment to have been another existence altogether , she remembered Jurgen and Horst arguing that there was actually something dynamic and hopeful about the forces of good and innocence being so demonstrably at risk from the satanic . |
| 2 | He was as usual training his sights exclusively on the goal currently in view , in this case the unification of South Africa , the kindergarten campaign for which seemed at that moment to require a concession to Afrikaner racial prejudice . |
| 3 | All at once , I was in a wild fury of rage : I saw , not Nonni , but all the foolish and ignorant people who seemed at this moment to be conspiring together against all the forces of right and reason to poison and destroy the world . |
| 4 | Marcus turned at that moment and saw her . |
| 5 | She could sense how his body moved towards her subtly ; how , with the utmost casualness , he strove at each moment to include her in all that was said . |
| 6 | The latticework door at the edge of the veranda opened at that moment and she hurried towards him , not troubling to disguise her pleasure at his arrival . |
| 7 | It was as if Chapman were a captain trying to keep afloat on a treacherous sea in a small boat that threatened at any moment to spring a leak . |
| 8 | Certainly what Devon Loch heard at that moment was not a noise which he had heard before , and it was some noise — a raucous surge of patriotic fervour as the Royal horse galloped to certain victory in front of his owner the Queen Mother and her daughters Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret , a rapturous climax befitting what was about to be one of the greatest moments of racing history . |
| 9 | I decided at that moment that I 'd had enough . ’ |
| 10 | He also decided at that moment , to his own amazement , that somehow , some time , he would have her as his wife . |
| 11 | Duncan decided at that moment that if things got really bad he would blitz the Russian with some of the Skoda and Lada jokes that were popular in the West . |
| 12 | He decided at that moment to make a victim of her . |
| 13 | In all these ways the place was perfectly suited to what Ramsey needed at that moment . |
| 14 | When he had finished piling the boxes up , Charles looked once more round the room and his eyes lighted on the very thing he needed at that moment — a torch . |
| 15 | The telephone rang at that moment ; Rachel answered it and before David had time to leave the room she said , ‘ There 's been an accident in the canteen — a boiler has blown up and two of the staff have been scalded . ’ |
| 16 | Any love she had for her husband disappeared at that moment . |
| 17 | ‘ As I said , it 's up to you , ’ said this stupid young man , who could have done anything he liked to me — or so I felt at that moment — if only he had done it , and not talked about it first , trying to strike a bargain . |
| 18 | And , Francis was frank in the reasons for the substitution when he said : ‘ I felt at that moment something different was needed . |
| 19 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |
| 20 | He felt at this moment as if he held Marcus upon a silken thread which he must use all his intelligence and all his courage to keep whole . |
| 21 | Maura had never dreamt that she could feel like she felt at this moment . |
| 22 | Had never felt the exquisite excitement that she felt at this moment . |
| 23 | How foolishly happy she had been earlier that evening , and how ridiculous she felt at this moment , all her dreams crushed and shattered around her slowly dragging feet . |
| 24 | She knew at that moment that she wanted to injure every penis that ever came into her hand . |
| 25 | Without being told , Sam knew at that moment that Clare would leave him . |
| 26 | Strangely , he knew at this moment that he 'd miss this house as much as his mother would . |
| 27 | Sara did not care to be beholden to Matthew Preston for even one pupil , but she knew at this moment she could not afford to be choosey . |
| 28 | She looked at this moment more terrifying than ever before . |
| 29 | To Rachel 's relief the community nurse emerged at that moment from Jennifer 's bedroom and the conversation switched from David Markham , and for the rest of the day neither he nor Conway House was mentioned again . |
| 30 | I never wanted my Mum so much in my life as I did at that moment . |