Example sentences of "[vb -s] for 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 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Once they go it seems for a moment that neither it nor we have any real existence .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 It becomes interesting when it seems that Jane might hit Tom , or when one of them stops for a moment and thinks .
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