Example sentences of "[det] moments of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Gloucester jockey Peter Scudamore a few moments of solitude and silence . |
| 2 | Trains had been laid on to despatch them to all parts of the country , so that for the rest of their lives they would be able to recall a few moments of honour , even glory . |
| 3 | I had a few moments of fury , a fury compounded of shame at my own stupidity , the triteness of the situation , the thought of my cottage and supper and the cosy fireside . |
| 4 | After a few moments of thought , a child replies , " We collect it from bees . " |
| 5 | Is the price we pay for a few moments of Mills and Boon romance too high , leaving an aftermath of bitterness , boredom and let-down ? |
| 6 | Within a few moments of Dr McNab 's saline injections Dr Dunstaple had begun to revive . |
| 7 | Given the few moments of contemplation she 'd wanted , it would probably have been her own choice for the evening . |
| 8 | She did n't try to fight the tears as her mind played and replayed the whole scene of Eddie 's last few moments of life . |
| 9 | Daley 's 66th-minute decider was one of few moments of excitement though , once in front , Villa could easily have sealed their victory with two more goals in the ensuing five minutes . |
| 10 | Now and again there were diversions , when one or another of the remaining five would hold the stage and would have a few moments of limelight , or glory . |
| 11 | So she 'd be able to have a few moments of peace and quiet in which to interview the woman . |
| 12 | This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure . |
| 13 | ‘ No , all I 'm asking you for is a few moments of Master Lorimer 's time . |
| 14 | Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination . |
| 15 | Manville asked , after a few moments of silence . |
| 16 | After a few moments of silence there was a series of sharp raps on the door , and a voice called out , asking if anyone was inside . |
| 17 | After a few moments of silence he pressed the button of an integral cassette-player beneath the dashboard and she was delighted to hear the opening bars of Mendelssohn 's Third Symphony . |
| 18 | It was almost worth all that agony to have these few moments of companionship . |
| 19 | After a few moments of pandemonium , Shamir thanked the delegates for their show of confidence , declared the convention closed and walked out of the hall , followed by most of his Cabinet colleagues . |
| 20 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
| 21 | Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had . |
| 22 | After some moments of silence , Loppe spoke without apparent emotion . |
| 23 | Were she not to experience such moments of trepidation there would be something strange m her nature indeed . |
| 24 | In such moments of confession he frequently strikes a prophetic note about his future life as a writer . |
| 25 | Henry found such moments of unpleasantness between them almost reassuring . |
| 26 | But imperialists were equally dispirited by their inability to turn such moments of excitement into a sustained popular identification with their long-term goals . |
| 27 | In fact such moments of leisure were relatively rare . |
| 28 | At such moments of crisis , some people resort to drink . |
| 29 | I used at times to feel somewhat worried when she would play the supremely confident coquette with me and I would be enthralled by her charms , but then I came to the conviction , some time ago , that such moments of relatedness could only be nourishing for her developing personality as well as delightful to me . |
| 30 | But such moments of uplift as were provided by the mystics could not prevent Lewis 's common-sense humility from seeing ‘ how much of one 's philosophy and religion are mere talk ’ . |