Example sentences of "just [prep] the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought they might do for us — just for the moment , anyway . |
| 2 | I know what you girls are like , you say you 'll just have it short to see what it looks like , and then you say Pedro at the salon wo n't let you grow it just for the moment , and then you say you 've got to look your best for some wedding or other and you ca n't go with it straggly and then you end up not growing it again and if I do n't mention it every week you think I 've learned to like it and if I do mention it every week you think I 'm nagging so I do n't mention it and I 'm stuck with it . |
| 3 | But just for the moment we wo n't worry about the grouping aspect . |
| 4 | Try to get rid of those sceptical preconceptions of yours , just for the moment . |
| 5 | ‘ We are alone just for the moment . ’ |
| 6 | Just for the moment . |
| 7 | We 'll go erm to our next caller very shortly who 's just waiting on the line , so if we can go to that caller yet , we ca n't just for the moment I 'm told . |
| 8 | But I am more disturbed by the sharp , diving whine of a mosquito , which produces an anticipatory tension by its frequency alone , just like the moment when the dentist turned on his drill and swung the whole clumsy contraption over my youthful , gaping mouth . |
| 9 | Since this is rarely so , a deft body evasion , backed up with a counter-block just before the moment of the attack 's impact , almost always pays dividends . |
| 10 | ‘ I lay on my nail scissors by mistake — they were under the rug — and just at the moment , well , to be graphic , an awful pain from outside was all I could feel . ’ |
| 11 | He reappeared with his shotgun just at the moment Judas was handing over his master . |
| 12 | I 'd know where I lived if I saw it , but just at the moment I ca n't remember the name of the street it 's in , and the policeman would n't know if I do n't have the address . |
| 13 | Just at the moment , indeed , the chief beneficiaries of the EC 's bounty are the two largest borrowers in Eastern Europe , Poland and Hungary , with gross debts of $41 billion and $17 billion and populations of 37 million and 10.5 million respectively . |
| 14 | Well , he 's not , but he 's not causing any difficulty just at the moment . |
| 15 | But just at the moment , it 's the Military Show that counts . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think that is the right thing for me just at the moment . |
| 17 | There was a strong case for saving Thoresby for the nation , but unfortunately its future came into question just at the moment when all thoughts were focused on Brodsworth , near Doncaster , another Victorian house with an even more complete set of contents . |
| 18 | The subsequent courts of sewers were steadily reinforced by successive legislation , culminating in 1532 in Henry VIII 's Statute of Sewers , just at the moment when the power of the monastic lords of the levels was broken by the Reformation . |
| 19 | He supposed you got bored with too much of it , but just at the moment it seemed very desirable . |
| 20 | Laing was traced to Dharram just at the moment he crossed the frontier on the causeway to the neighbouring Emirate of Bahrain . |
| 21 | Obviously , the content of a shot has a bearing on its length ; ideally , it should end just at the moment when the viewer has absorbed all the information in the scene , and is beginning to wonder what happens next ? |
| 22 | Most radical opinion was outraged by the fact that Britain should be reversing its traditional hostility to Russia just at the moment when defeat by the Japanese in 1904–5 , and the revolutionary upheavals which followed , had rocked the foundations of Tsarist tyranny . |
| 23 | Just at the moment when France 's Jacobin revolutionary tradition reached its lowest ebb , the British Left discovered the radical possibilities of patriotism . |
| 24 | I think the real historical tragedy is that AIDS has emerged just at the moment that the gay community was reaching a sort of maturity and openness . |
| 25 | I need this conversation like a hole in the head just at the moment ! |
| 26 | This was n't true , but he did n't want to get dragged into one of William 's theological discussions , not just at the moment . |
| 27 | Just at the moment I 'm fine , she thought . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's got one or two things on his mind just at the moment . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Just at the moment , Prentice , I do n't think there 'd be any shortage of volunteers to help you on your way , if you were serious . ’ |
| 30 | Just at the moment other men are beginning to wonder if they 've come to the end of themselves , and if this is all that life has to offer , you discover a complete new range of abilities in yourself . |