Example sentences of "[adj] moment of [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that needs to happen , in between , is this moment of horror I mentioned . |
| 2 | Given the few moments of contemplation she 'd wanted , it would probably have been her own choice for the evening . |
| 3 | After a few moments of silence he pressed the button of an integral cassette-player beneath the dashboard and she was delighted to hear the opening bars of Mendelssohn 's Third Symphony . |
| 4 | In such moments of confession he frequently strikes a prophetic note about his future life as a writer . |
| 5 | She would offer her breast as a blood sacrifice for life and in that moment of despair she had no doubt at all but that death would accept it and she would have to live . |
| 6 | In that moment of truth she wanted to be struck by lightning and reduced to smouldering ashes . |
| 7 | At that moment of jubilation I realised that my own philosophy on life and that of football management go hand in foot . |
| 8 | Until that moment of confrontation I had determined that I would tell the truth . |
| 9 | In that moment of fear she remembered the Brownie Guide Law , which points out that ‘ a Brownie Guide thinks of others before herself and does a good turn every day . ’ |
| 10 | In one brief moment of weakness he had allowed the mask to slip . |
| 11 | In the brief moments of respite they get they sometimes wonder , like Champaben , a homeworker ; |
| 12 | She was immobile , cruelly transfixed , but in the very moment of immobility she saw most clearly a time when such moments need not be . |
| 13 | At one moment of inaction he checks over what he has done and what still remains to be done , in an unspoken conversation when he imagines he is being examined for his second mate 's ticket , his present goal in life and the strong motivation of his apprenticeship . |
| 14 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 15 | He had noticed that in rare moments of stress she was apt to revert to her original Cockney . |
| 16 | In rare moments of leisure he liked to potter around the garden , and always said he would take up farming when he retired . |