Example sentences of "[vb base] for a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , leaving the graduated scheme out of account for a moment , the position we have reached today is that the state pays to all retired persons , without regard to means , a pension roughly of subsistence value . |
| 2 | 1 Coarsely chop the oysters , then process for a moment with the rest of the ingredients , except the clarified butter , citrus juice and fresh parsley |
| 3 | Her lips felt swollen from his kiss , her body shuddering as she felt his hand , pressed tensely against her spine , hesitate for a moment and then , as if he could not stop himself , slide around caressingly over her slender body and up to the full swell of her breast . |
| 4 | Cadfael shepherded his charge within , and watched him subside gratefully on to the narrow cot , and sit there mute for a moment , laying his burden down beside him with a kind of caressing gentleness . |
| 5 | Next time the phone rings or there is a knock on the door , just pause for a moment instead of reacting immediately . |
| 6 | But pause for a moment . |
| 7 | If we pause for a moment and consider the place of the Neolithic revolution in the theory of human personality and society so far advanced in these pages we will be struck by the fact that the coming of cultivation posed a major threat to the psychological foundations of human society as they had evolved up to that point . |
| 8 | If we just pause for a moment and look at the A C C digest that the papers see . |
| 9 | My patience snapped and I said : ‘ Do shut up and just listen for a moment . ’ |
| 10 | Imagine for a moment that one of the people who is the real driving force behind your business is removed tomorrow . |
| 11 | Imagine for a moment what easy pickings a huge shoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike . |
| 12 | Imagine for a moment attempting to describe in detail the difference in shape between a milk bottle and a sherry bottle , or the taste of cod as against haddock , or the design of some wallpaper . |
| 13 | But never imagine for a moment that she has abandoned a lifetime of hard-won apostasy and now rejoices in the mating rituals of her long-lost tribe . |
| 14 | If your book has photographs , diagrams or graphs , stop for a moment when you come to them , close your eyes and try to visualise them . |
| 15 | When you are getting on really well with someone , stop for a moment and notice if your body language is like that of your friend . |
| 16 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 17 | I focus for a moment on one arch carved into the Redwall limestone . |
| 18 | Raise your right knee up I straight in front of you , hold for a moment , then lower . |
| 19 | It 's not much protection from wind at this slower speed , but you can unnerve the man in front of you , wait for a moment of weakness and spring past . |
| 20 | Consider for a moment the bustle of the scene a hundred years ago , with horse-drawn barges and occasional steam tugs nearing the end of their journeys or perhaps setting out on the return trip towards the sea . |
| 21 | Consider for a moment the following : Bugs Bunny — gay ? |
| 22 | Consider for a moment the question of legitimate presence . |
| 23 | Consider for a moment two ways of superimposing fourths on the scale of C major : In order to create chords each having two perfect fourths as in ( a ) , B♭ and E♭ have had to be introduced in the first and fourth chords . |
| 24 | If we consider for a moment the extent to which the hero-kings of early agricultural societies did indeed come to play a maternal , provident role with regard to those dependent on them we can perhaps begin to see the truth of the claim that they became the heirs of the matriarchs . |
| 25 | All there is in this thunder is not relief but a revival of ‘ aethereal rumours ’ which ‘ only at nightfall … / Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus . ’ |
| 26 | Past more bushes now , I stand for a moment on the edge of a sacred area , which I share with the rabbits for which it is home . |
| 27 | When sitting down , tense your tummy muscles immediately before rising , with one foot further back than the other taking most of your weight ; rise without a quick jerky movement and , when upright , stand for a moment and take a deep breath before starting to walk away . |
| 28 | They stand for a moment locked by their feelings in an awkward embrace . |
| 29 | They saw the man come in from the street and stand for a moment adjusting to the darkness . |
| 30 | It was dark and the lamps were lit and they might not have seen Sesostris if he had not had to step aside to avoid a porter with a heavy bundle on his back and stand for a moment in the light from a shop front . |