Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was about to say so , in no uncertain terms , but stopped herself at the last moment . |
| 2 | Accounting for the use of this form in any context will always imply relating the particular meaning actualized in the context to the permanent potential significate postulated for it in tongue , and will consequently involve : ( 1 ) showing that the common denominator of a before/after sequence is present ( the constant element evoked by to ) , and ( 2 ) showing how the speaker has fit the particular experience he is talking about into this potential by intercepting the operation of actualizing it at the appropriate moment ( the variable element expressed by to ) . |
| 3 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 4 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 5 | If the helicopter is moving , to stop it you must apply an opposite control movement and then remove it at the precise moment that the helicopter stops . |
| 6 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 7 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 8 | This is achieved by holding down the fire button until the meter below the energy bar reaches maximum , then releasing it at the right moment . |
| 9 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 10 | Ludo and I hear it at the same moment . |
| 11 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 12 | Coming up next here on Radio Oxford is the six o'clock news , but we 'll leave you with the best moment this afternoon here on Radio Oxford . |
| 13 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 14 | Begin what seems to be a front kick , then change it at the last moment into a high roundhouse kick . |
| 15 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 16 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 17 | ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him . |
| 18 | Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment . |
| 19 | A sentiment that ambushed her at the coldest moments . |
| 20 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 21 | I ca n't understand why they left it till the last moment ? |
| 22 | Miss Coldharbour had recruited her at the last moment to help serve supper for Canon Wheeler 's guests who included the Bishop and the Earl of Medewich and Markham . |
| 23 | Never trusted him from the first moment . |