Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] right moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | His only choice at present was to wait for the right moment to play his hand . |
| 2 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 3 | He would wait for the right moment . |
| 4 | This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection . |
| 5 | And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I make big scenes for fun , because I adore drama , but I can also wait ten years , wait for the right moment to come . |
| 7 | She understood then that if she had had leisure to listen at the right moment , she might have heard the faint , suggestive sounds of a third presence . |
| 8 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 9 | The banks have been hostile to the plans from the beginning but had been waiting for the right moment to withdraw on commercial rather than political grounds . |
| 10 | John Delaney knew now that all along it had been hunting them , that it was still hunting them , waiting for the right moment to pick them off at will , one at a time . |
| 11 | Although the City has recommended for the past year that Quality go public , the company has been waiting for the right moment . |
| 12 | Choosing the best time to buy is not always possible , and sometimes the inconvenience of waiting for the right moment can cause more trouble than any financial saving may by worth . |
| 13 | Huy had delayed telling Merymose about Surere , waiting for the right moment to come . |
| 14 | I 'm waiting for the right moment . ’ |
| 15 | I was waiting for the right moment to find out just how deeply your were involved with Elise . |
| 16 | So it was a question of waiting till the right moment . |
| 17 | With this in position he waits for the right moment to switch through the distance shot film of the city , coupled with the live action inlay of the characters . |
| 18 | It is important that selection decisions are timed at the right moment in this chain . |
| 19 | It is just because whatever one has planned to do is bound to be altered in the process that it is important to start at the right moment , he wrote . |
| 20 | Editor , — K M Citron 's editorial on BCG vaccination against tuberculosis appears at the right moment . |
| 21 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 22 | The Collector had gone up to join Ford on the roof because he wanted to be in a position from which he could give the order to retreat at the right moment ; in his own mind there was no doubt but that he would have to give it sooner or later . |
| 23 | ( It was used to make a " gun-shot " by being popped at the right moment , thereby creating the wrong time for the murder . |
| 24 | Additional airbrake should be available to make the glider stop floating at the right moment . |
| 25 | Winifred with a dead bird , Mrs. Jordan wanting her daily orders , even a fit of coughing — if any of these had happened at the right moment , she would never have invited Sarah on this visit . |
| 26 | Mungo admired Emily 's patience as she waited for the right moment to mention his proposition . |
| 27 | After Theo had gone , Vincent waited for the right moment to break his own news to Sien . |
| 28 | He waited for the right moment , walked calmly across the road , knelt down , put his neck across the railway line and waited for a loaded van to sever his head . |
| 29 | Carefully she waited until the right moment . |
| 30 | Secondly , and most serious , are allegations of ‘ Clever Hans ’ errors ; named after the German horse early in the century that gave correct answers to arithmetical problems shown it on a blackboard ( by tapping with its hoof ) until it was unmasked as reacting to unwitting symptoms of tension in its trainer which caused it to stop at the right moment . |