Example sentences of "[adv] at [adj] [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been thwarted in his aims , was he going to swoop down at some unsuspected moment and engage her in another haranguing match ? |
| 2 | So at this grave moment we have come to establish a supreme people 's council which can represent all the Korean People and include representatives from all the classes of the Korean people . |
| 3 | It was fortunate that Luke did n't come in at that particular moment , Merrill mused later , as she reached for the telephone directory ; he would certainly have misread Rob 's little gesture of appreciation . |
| 4 | Mr Browning coming in at that very moment ran to his wife 's side and all but hauled her out of the bed in order to get her upright — in a moment , the convulsion was over and she sank back quite exhausted and drained . |
| 5 | Sat at the end of the row in front of us , a gentleman whose office we might or might not be standing in at this very moment . |
| 6 | I have the plumber in at this very moment re-sealing the bath . |
| 7 | Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road . |
| 8 | She would have stayed asleep , too , if not for the outrageous racket that erupted outside at that very moment . |
| 9 | I do not at this precise moment , therefore , feel quite as wretched as I did this morning after using the public telephone or as bewildered and terrorized as I did this afternoon while sitting half-frozen on the trembling suspension bridge across the sleazy Thames . |
| 10 | One two three four five six not yet seven eight nine no no ten eleven twelve wait thirteen fourteen no ! fifteen not yet ! sixteen wait , wait , wait seventeen wait ! seventeen seventeen eighteen no use nineteen the stuff was Co-ming ! twent — I must have shouted out at that precise moment where exultation turns to disgust , the moment of spilling , of defilement . |
| 11 | And finally , surely at this present moment , only four miles east of Harrogate and about three miles east of Ripon the A s A one is at this very moment in time being lifted to an acceptable standard A motorway standard at this stage and not in the year two thousand which is what you 're talking about for this road . |
| 12 | He stood , hearing the picks ring on the rock and watching the spoil fly from three hundred shovels , and he would realize that perhaps , even at that very moment , a papermaker in some small East End papermill was drying the very sheet on which Chambers or someone would write the final , damning words , ‘ insufficient funds . ’ |
| 13 | Even at that exciting moment , I remembered the old Admiral Benbow , and I seemed to hear the voice of old Bill , the seaman , singing with them . |
| 14 | Whenever an opportunity arose for him to spike evidence or arguments favourable to the defence , he did not hesitate to do so , even at one choleric moment telling Nicky not to be stupider than he was ; and his summing-up was a summing-up for the prosecution . |
| 15 | Even at this awkward moment , I doubt that the performance of the economy alone , or even chiefly , will lose the Conservatives the next election . |
| 16 | I have made it a point of honour to spare you moral blackmail of the ‘ Do you honestly suppose for a single moment that I would be capable of stooping to such beastliness ? ’ variety , and I shall not waver even at this supreme moment . |
| 17 | Almost at that very moment Millie was standing before the Mother Superior , who was voicing that very word , politeness . |
| 18 | If the fuzz follow their normal pattern , then at this very moment someone will be interrupting a tame magistrate snoozing in front of TV News to sign search warrants . |
| 19 | To find out which position line , to or from the beacon , the aircraft is on at any given moment . |
| 20 | In addition , with co-processing the order of the day at Sellafield , it is proving very difficult to keep tabs on who has what grade of plutonium where at any given moment . |
| 21 | Every week one reads of Victoria Crosses being put up for sale by the hard-up families of men who willingly risked their lives for their country , yet at this very moment three holders of this supreme badge of courage live in unmarked graves on Merseyside . |
| 22 | Every week one reads of Victoria Crosses being put up for sale by the hard-up families of men who willingly risked their lives for their country , yet at this very moment three holders of this supreme badge of courage lie in unmarked graves on Merseyside . |
| 23 | I can therefore understand why at that awful moment he should seek to summon up a talisman of words , a secret defence against abomination , or perhaps even an excuse in the form of some kind of precedent that a word expresses and so takes the edge of uniqueness off the contemplated evil . |
| 24 | ‘ Oliver , ’ he said , lapsing almost parodically at this solemn moment into the brute vocabulary of mercantilism , ‘ we 've asked you to be a witness and that 's our final offer . ’ |