Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] the [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor , said Thomas Gisborne in 1795 , must he himself disdain to borrow money at the appropriate moment if he is not to put his credit to real and serious hazard . |
| 2 | It was a spectator sport where young men would show their courage by standing in the path of the maddened bull and then leaping side at the last moment . |
| 3 | ‘ Look here ! ’ exclaimed Peter at the same moment . |
| 4 | One of the features of , of the media which I think I mentioned earlier , certainly to one group if not the whole lot , is that people in the media cut things to the last moment , and the final second , it 's part of the adrenaline , we 've a chance to , make people move in . |
| 5 | One idea is to place a cereal like cornflakes round it and then add milk at the last moment before producing it . |
| 6 | Anyway , the position now is that if you do not take silk at the right moment , it may mean that you have to continue working much too hard for your time of life ; on the other hand some barristers who take silk repent it , for they find too late that their services in the more expensive class of advocacy are not in demand . |
| 7 | Over such key issues as the European Common Market he had followed a prudent , unadventurous course , only moving to endorse membership at the last moment when political circumstances seemed so to dictate . |
| 8 | Since the letting can not be conceived as existing before the event permitted gets under way , to is not used with let , just as it is not used with see because seeing can not be conceived as taking place before the first moment of the event seen . |
| 9 | Your mother was a silly greedy girl — a gold-digger who wanted to marry above her station , but took fright at the last moment , without caring what hurt she bestowed . |
| 10 | He was preparing lunch at the precise moment . |
| 11 | Nerves were edgy as both players dropped their service games to remain neck and neck at 5–5 , but it was Powell who was able to break Curtis at the crucial moment to regain the lead . |
| 12 | The interview with Jason , he tells the jury , had been ‘ twisted , distorted , added to and invented ; and it attributed cowardice at the very moment the Gulf War was about to break out ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Or else the server would have to add poison at the last moment — surely very risky . |
| 14 | Four weeks of near stasis in voters ' attitudes apparently gave way at the last moment to a near avalanche . |
| 15 | He prepares to do so , and only when it is clear that he will obey the divine command does God at the last moment spare his son and tell him to kill a sheep instead . |
| 16 | It 's like that wire-mesh barrier thing — the one he told me about — the one that stops boats at the last moment from going over the weir . |