Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [art] moment " in BNC.
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1 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
2 | The prediction of its heliacal rising after inferior conjunction , that is , its first reappearance as ‘ the morning star ’ after a period of invisibility , was of vital concern to the Maya , who regarded it as a moment of particular dread . |
3 | ‘ I do n't doubt it for a moment . ’ |
4 | Oh their life 's can be totally wrecked , I do n't doubt it for a moment . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain . |
7 | He handed the paper to Hawkins , who studied it for a moment , then said : ‘ I know those places marked with an asterisk . |
8 | They 're working on what they 're gon na say and when they 're gon na do it at the moment . |
9 | Though she did n't believe it for a moment . |
10 | Well , let's believe it for the moment , because it makes love 's triumph the greater . |
11 | Exactly and if you do n't pay it , and there are a few silly old so and sos not paying it at the moment , I mean the rest of us have had to pa |
12 | If we take our budget-fixing example and examine it for a moment , we realise that two separate things may be going on . |
13 | The management er clearly desired to implement the scheme er with the minimum amount of frustration er to anyone , although you 've got to understand that as an engineer working a , a big milling machine for example , if someone comes along and said er , you know you could stand that job on its side different to what you 've got it at the moment , and you could do two faces instead of one you know , by turning the table and you know , by use of various tools er decrease the time factor , there was the , it was a fear that our members may work themselves out of a job . |
14 | You must get the alternative there first , and we have n't got it at the moment . |
15 | Leonora admired it for a moment . |
16 | And when words can manage something of this , and manage it in a moment in time , and in that same moment make out of it all the vital signature of a human being — not of an atom , or of a geometrical diagram , or a heap of lenses — but a human being , we call it poetry . |
17 | it 's , I ca n't see any other way to do it at the moment , I mean probably when I |
18 | They get some man to do it at the moment . |
19 | I think I did , I thought about that but I ca n't afford to do it at the moment there look see you can get the , the L ones the double seat ones and the little ones look |
20 | better than not being able to afford to do it at the moment , |
21 | I would like to have it very much because music is one of the great pleasures in life to me but I just have nowhere to put it at the moment . |
22 | I 've left it with two screws holding it at the moment . |
23 | She took the boxed flower and then , after holding it for a moment and wondering what to do with it , laid it down alongside her place setting . |
24 | Which is more , but let's face it at the moment wears out as it grows older does n't it ? |
25 | Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses of beautiful women of antiquity , and how would they be troubled by this beauty , into which the soul with all its maladies has passed ! |
26 | We ought to have known it from the moment Mrs Thatcher was made a member of the Order of Merit , one of the top 24 in the land . |
27 | ‘ That 's how I plan to keep it at the moment . |
28 | She examined it for a moment , then squeezed it between thumb and fingernail and dropped it on the floor . |
29 | But it 's not doing it at the moment , although there 's |
30 | The Bishop of Woolwich , John Robinson , did this some time ago with ‘ Honest to God ’ and Don Cupitt , I think , is doing it at the moment too with his book ‘ Taking Leave of God ’ . |