Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] for a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cowslip seemed taken aback for a moment . |
| 2 | Mrs Diggory looked taken aback for a moment , but she took the hand and then ushered the lady inside , talking all the while . |
| 3 | That the curtain had blown aside for a moment |
| 4 | The man had been writing in a book , he 'd taken the number of the car with an official air and Cormack had wondered why for a moment , then forgotten . |
| 5 | It stayed poised there for a moment and another question , another proclamation of innocence , then he brought it down ready to drive into the small man 's stomach again . |