Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do n't think for a moment that I 'm duped by my own little lies . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd love to help her , and I know every one of us would ; but I do n't think for a moment that Miss Miggs would let us pay her fare , even if we could raise so much money . ’ |
| 3 | And I do n't think for a moment that I 'm alone in feeling this way . |
| 4 | Aggressive criticisms of assembly-line education such as this from the 1930s should cause us to stop and think for a moment . |
| 5 | Do n't think for a moment that the women are all on the creative side of the business . |
| 6 | He could feel the vibrations in his bones ; juddering the cradle he was strapped into , making him think for a moment that the tiny vehicle was going to shake itself to pieces . |
| 7 | I do not think for a moment that the Letter of Aristeas should be taken as a Festal Scroll , something like the Book of Esther , to be read in the Alexandrian synagogues every year on the day on which ( as we know from Philo ) the Alexandrian Jews commemorated the translation ( De vita Mosis 2.41 ) . |
| 8 | He should think for a moment what that means . |
| 9 | Let us think for a moment about some of those who have been left behind . |
| 10 | The old lady did n't answer for a moment , and before she did the wrinkles on her neck moved under the effect of her swallowing , and then she said simply , ‘ Thank you , Charles . ’ |
| 11 | The Thing did n't answer for a moment . |
| 12 | Taken by surprise , she could not answer for a moment and than said angrily , ‘ If you knew , why did n't you say something before ? ’ |
| 13 | He did n't answer for a moment , and it seemed as if he was trying to control conflicting emotions . |
| 14 | Let us consider for a moment how one of Rowlandson 's plates for this work would be produced . |
| 15 | So let's consider for a moment what are the attributes , the other attributes , that an advocate needs ? |
| 16 | To understand why this is so let us recapitulate for a moment . |
| 17 | I will discuss in a moment how such transport might be achieved , but first I give an example of its role in maintaining life . |
| 18 | Apart from one other ingredient , which I will discuss in a moment , most helicopter aerobatics consist of combinations of the loop and roll . |
| 19 | I will describe in a moment how the decoding is carried out , but first , a word about what kind of code it is . |
| 20 | We shall consider in a moment the grip this kind of thinking has on the conservative mind , not merely the politically Conservative , but traditionalists of all kinds . |
| 21 | A strict analogy with judicial review would perhaps give the decision-maker a power ( and a duty ) to award compensation after it had re-made its decision , if it turned out that the applicant had suffered loss as a result of the initial illegal decision ( although there are difficulties in this solution which we will consider in a moment ) . |
| 22 | What else is his Eucharist but , at a higher level , an endless act of fruitful out-pouring of his whole flesh , such as a man can only achieve for a moment with a limited organ of his body ? |
| 23 | Jenny could n't speak for a moment . |
| 24 | Roger Kenyon started slightly , but he did not speak for a moment . |
| 25 | This was something so endearing I could n't speak for a moment . |
| 26 | ‘ Was n't that terrific ? ’ she turned to Ven to eagerly exclaim — and felt her heart begin to race yet again when , his expression somehow gentle , he did not speak for a moment but just stood and looked at her . |
| 27 | Let us assume for a moment that we could indeed fire her : should we ? |
| 28 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 29 | It would n't fool them for long but it would do for a moment . |
| 30 | No it could do in a moment or two though it er , it looks a bit ominous , you rub one or two er doubts , they are similar colour to these actually |