Example sentences of "[to-vb] for a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were very old dogs , taken gently to the nearest suitable spot then straight home ; dogs who bounded ahead , to wait for a moment , look round , eyes shining , mouth dripping , before dashing off once more ; dogs on the lead , who would drag their owner slowly from one thoughtfully sniffed-over site to the next ; and there were some , like Wilson , who trotted to heel — alert , brisk , responsible — although Wilson was not a dog , only so much like an Aberdeen terrier in bearing and gait that his picture sometimes became confused in my mind . |
| 2 | Erm but not everybody 's quite so erm y'know not everybody gets on with everybody and um this kind of what you might call personal chemistry , to lapse for a moment into pharmacological determinism er maybe helps um maybe helps a bit . |
| 3 | I think we also need to recognise that there has also been a er , high level of er , commitment from er , officers employed by this council to achieving the changes that we have asked in terms of financial management , now I 'm not going to pretend for a moment that er , we 've gone all the way there yet . |
| 4 | This was immediately prior to the Nicholson ‘ star ’ era ; the wave of which he rode the crest was beginning to build and it is interesting to chronicle for a moment some of the events leading up to his ‘ discovery ’ as a major Hollywood personality — a hero of the age and one who , as we have seen , was much influenced by the existentialist prophecies of Kerouac , which were now , finally , coming home to roost in middle-class America and elsewhere . |
| 5 | Bodie was too stunned to comment for a moment . |
| 6 | She turned from her and ran down the stairs and into the yard , there to stand for a moment petrified when she saw the young fellow lying on his side , the blood oozing from somewhere above his ear . |
| 7 | ‘ God and Saint Winifred dispose ! ’ said the earl , and mounted without haste , to stand for a moment motionless , before turning the book , with slow , hieratic gestures that could be clearly seen by all , upon its spine between his long , muscular hands , thumbs meeting to part the pages . |
| 8 | There one had to stand for a moment while one 's name was read out — then another little push — a curtsey and four steps forward to just below the Queen . |
| 9 | He paused to listen for a moment . |
| 10 | I do not mean to suggest for a moment any kind of determinist philosophy here : functional rationality does not cause philosophical rationality , but it does help it along . |
| 11 | I do n't want you to imagine for a moment that I do n't believe every word of what you tell me . |
| 12 | Permit me to take up our plight — try to imagine for a moment the straight and level run in to the target , " bombs gone " followed by the desperate seconds ( best described by one of my Canadian pilots as " when I bite buttons off my parachute cushion " ) before the automatic photoflash and the aiming point picture taken by the night camera . |
| 13 | Alexei 's eyes seemed to stare for a moment into the middle distance . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't help feeling , to revert for a moment , ’ said Dyson , ‘ that television is rather more my metier . |
| 15 | ‘ Sorry I 'm late , ’ she said , and he snapped around from the window in surprise , almost forgetting to smile for a moment . |
| 16 | The talk was even between all four of them — neither man wanting the women to leave for a moment and both women , though diffident to start with , more than capable of taking a full part in the ‘ manly ’ subjects of politics and warfare and the economy of the country which George and John-Augustus batted about , rather sweepingly . |
| 17 | At the very least , the assailant may be made to pause for a moment before attacking , and this may be just enough to allow the prey to escape . |
| 18 | Inhibition , as recommended by Alexander , is the ability to pause for a moment until we are adequately prepared to carry out actions satisfactorily . |
| 19 | In one sense these findings may be seen as an argument for mainstreaming and it is appropriate to pause for a moment to consider this view . |
| 20 | Well er in the early days , erm there were occasions where erm if I may say so , that , that just to divert for a moment , the scheme had to have supervision , and there was an increase in the staff , the number of foremen and chargehands increased . |
| 21 | These are people who are so obsessed with the first decade of this new century that they 're inclined to forget for a moment the nineteen hundred or so years that went before it . |
| 22 | Ken Stevens tipped up the wheelbarrow then stood back to rest for a moment . |
| 23 | He did n't even seem to consider for a moment that I might be innocent . |
| 24 | I want to consider for a moment the true price of coal . |
| 25 | Then he frowned and seemed to consider for a moment . |
| 26 | They should be pleased to turn for a moment from the Annual Assessment , which even they find a little dull , to some piece of historical research . |
| 27 | I ask the hon. Lady to relax for a moment . |
| 28 | By day the grey alpaca coat , left behind by Twomey , covered him like a night-shirt ; the turned-back sleeves often fell over his hands to hang for a moment with a pierrot 's sadness . |
| 29 | She pretended to think for a moment . |
| 30 | I also think that before sitting in judgement on Dr Hari 's ‘ uncritical use of the concept of ‘ normality ’ ’ , a social scientist of Dr Oliver 's calibre might stop to think for a moment about the social context in which those remarks were made . |