Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] for a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 2 | I want to consider for a moment the true price of coal . |
| 3 | I stand listening for a moment — crying could ruin everything — but there 's only the rhythmic suck-suck , suck-suck , suck-suck as it breathes and sucks on the medicine . |
| 4 | Now I 've dwelt for a moment on my own experience because I think it epitomizes that of the Labour Party as a whole from to John , the G M B has been a tower of strength always there to assist not only with money and resources , but also with advice and support and on behalf of my parliamentary colleagues , I want to thank the union for all it is , it has done for the Labour Party . |
| 5 | In this short speech , I wish to think for a moment about all the youngsters who were so badly damaged and hurt by that evil man . |
| 6 | She pretended to think for a moment . |
| 7 | Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment . |
| 8 | ‘ Would you like to stop for a moment ? ’ |
| 9 | If she had weakened for a moment , to the extent of uttering one soft word of forgiveness , of friendship , she might have burst into tears . |
| 10 | She had thought for a moment that he was going to have a heart attack from shock , but , recovering himself , he had said , ‘ Well , now you know , what are you going to do about it ? ’ to which she had answered simply , ‘ Divorce , ’ and walked out . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're completely unscrupulous , Lydia , ’ said Betty , but she had laughed for a moment . |
| 12 | She stood poised for a moment , stretched her mouth wide , licked her lips , moved her shoulders from side to side , then let her body sway , waited for the chorus to finish and the verse to start and she went on . |
| 13 | There one had to stand for a moment while one 's name was read out — then another little push — a curtsey and four steps forward to just below the Queen . |
| 14 | He thought , They had forgotten for a moment that I 'm a policeman . |
| 15 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 16 | He fell asleep , but hours later he woke up and felt again — as he 'd felt for a moment in the hall when he 'd arrived — that he should n't be in this house . |
| 17 | He 'd thought for a moment that the fates had it in for him . |
| 18 | He seemed to hesitate for a moment . |
| 19 | He seemed to hesitate for a moment . |
| 20 | Before 1848 it had seemed for a moment that its crisis of transition ( see The Age of Revolution , p. 304 ) might also prove to be its final crisis , at least in England , but in the 1850s it became clear that its major period of growth was only just beginning . |
| 21 | He had thought for a moment that Hoomey was going to ask him back , but he knew he was n't the sort of friend that nice mothers were all that pleased to see . |
| 22 | The sound of the Latino 's voice , cold and quiet , brought back the fear that he had forgotten for a moment . |
| 23 | He paused to listen for a moment . |