Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits for a moment on the arm of the chair , and rests her hand on my neck . |
| 2 | Fred thinks for a moment . |
| 3 | No one who thinks for a moment will suppose that that is a path in which there are no hills to climb . |
| 4 | Crilly thinks for a moment . |
| 5 | ‘ I do have that platinum , suicide blonde hair in the movie , ’ says Kylie , allowing herself a rare giggle , as the guise drops for a moment . |
| 6 | After the Reformation it looks for a moment as if the Ecclesiastical Courts would allow even a divorce in the modern sense ; but the attempt fails , and the only way of getting a complete dissolution of marriage is by special Act of Parliament ( and so the law remained , for persons domiciled in Northern Ireland , up to 1939 ) . |
| 7 | She pauses for a moment and the van overflows with the sound of helpless male laughter . |
| 8 | One day they might slow right down and start to fall back again — like a stone thrown into the air — it slows down , pauses for a moment , and then falls back again . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ he adds after a moment , ‘ maybe I deserve it . ’ |
| 10 | Well we come round to what happens in a moment to As and Bs . |
| 11 | spills like a moment from the past : only |
| 12 | It might seem surprising , then , that Chancellor Kohl should seem to have accepted the French position , until one reflects for a moment on the implications . |
| 13 | Waves of compassion and outrage fuse with delayed feelings of self-pity for her own plight , and society seems for a moment a huge conspiracy to exploit and oppress young women . |
| 14 | It seems for a moment as if the world is peopled only by this god and this moon , facing each other through the aeons of the night . |
| 15 | Once they go it seems for a moment that neither it nor we have any real existence . |
| 16 | When told to leave all behind , his past , his roots , his culture , his sense of belonging , his status and position in society and the family , the friendship , support and love of those close to him , everything except for Sarah , his wife , and Lot , his nephew , he goes without a moment 's hesitation . |
| 17 | A fragment of yet another poem alludes to the bringing of Eadwine 's severed head to Aberffraw ( principal residence of the kings of Gwynedd on Môn ( Anglesey ) ) and clearly refers to a moment after the battle of Hatfield Chase . |
| 18 | But tossed about by a cruel world , Iris is not the sort of girl who quietly puts up with her destiny — just as the flower beneath which she reads for a moment , while a woman 's revenge wreaks horrible havoc in the final minutes , is not just an ordinary cactus . |
| 19 | However , if one forgets for a moment the organizational structures of the two parties and considers their policies , one sees a relatively united unionist movement . |
| 20 | If anyone believes for a moment that we should forget about the cause of asylum seekers , I ask them to read some of the evidence of people who fled from Chile , El Salvador , Burma and so many other places where they could not cope with the oppression against them . |
| 21 | It becomes interesting when it seems that Jane might hit Tom , or when one of them stops for a moment and thinks . |