Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 2 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 3 | Even if we confine ourselves for the moment to the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. , when the options were more limited , the road of the Rhone was not the only route for traffic between Celts and Greeks . |
| 4 | You do n't need me for the moment , but I 'll be back this afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't need them for the moment , ’ said Apricot , ‘ because Bernard and I do n't do it . |
| 6 | That shooting The London boxing promoter Mickey Duff said : ‘ The only thing that worries me at the moment is his speedy recovery . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ However , ’ said Canon Wheeler clearing his throat to indicate that he had n't finished and intended to keep the reins of conversation in his own hands , ‘ what chiefly worries me at the moment is the Old Man 's reaction . ’ |
| 8 | What worries me at the moment about the proposals is that there is discrimination not only against the United Kingdom but against Europe in the way in which the Commission is carrying out the negotiations with the United States . |
| 9 | Just now ( but this can not last she thought , dissociating herself from the moment while she talked about boots ) just now she had reached security ; she hovered like a hawk suspended ; like a flag floated in an element of joy which filled every nerve of her body fully and sweetly , not noisily , solemnly rather , for it arose , she thought , looking at them all eating there , from husband and children and friends … |
| 10 | It is not necessary for you to meet him at the moment — in fact , he is not here right at this moment — but you may use the telephone . |
| 11 | ‘ Nobody 's finding it very easy to meet him at the moment , ’ said Charlotte . |
| 12 | Bless Marvin Gaye — but we do n't need him at the moment ! |
| 13 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
| 14 | yeah , count them at the moment . |
| 15 | Wan na watch them at the moment . |
| 16 | afford nothing at the moment . |
| 17 | His name completly eludes me at the moment . |
| 18 | ‘ And I 've told you there is n't any more information I can give you at the moment . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ These are all the variations I can show you for the moment . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't have anything else that I could show you at the moment I 'm afraid . |
| 21 | ‘ We are confident we can beat anybody at the moment , ’ said Cambridge coach John Wilson . |
| 22 | Thick , dark and naturally wavy as it was , all she had to do was twist it through an elasticated hairband and pin the resulting pony-tail into whatever shape pleased her at the moment . |
| 23 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 24 | You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain . |
| 25 | They 're working on what they 're gon na say and when they 're gon na do it at the moment . |
| 26 | I feel I can beat anyone at the moment . ’ |
| 27 | Such investors tended to come in when stocks were exchanged rather than present themselves at the moment of initiation . |
| 28 | But let us for the moment look at the word that signifies the process or action itself : the word kill . |
| 29 | Let us for the moment take it as established that dog has a general sense , denoting the whole species , irrespective of sex . |
| 30 | The Government 's figures — let us for the moment assume that they have an accuracy which the Government 's abysmal record on predicting poll tax bills certainly does not justify — show that average council tax bills this year in Langbaurgh would have been £470 and in Middlesbrough £447 — £170 and £153 respectively higher than the equivalent fair rates bills . |