Example sentences of "[prep] a few moments [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few moments she was saying very natural and quite irritable ‘ ouches ’ when Phoebe prodded too hard . |
| 2 | For a few moments I was intensely conscious of the tree and saw nothing else . |
| 3 | For a few moments I was utterly terrified . |
| 4 | For a few moments I was silent , feeling her sorrow , so discordant among the bright seasonal colours of this festive room . |
| 5 | For a few moments he was content to look at the maid 's face and the way the orange firelight lent it strength and mystery . |
| 6 | For a few moments he was content to hold her , then the solar spun before Isabel 's vision as she was lifted into fitzAlan 's arms . |
| 7 | For a few moments she was laughing so much she could n't speak . |
| 8 | For a few moments there was little apparent reaction . |
| 9 | For a few moments there was a general discussion then Tony turned to Sarah . |
| 10 | But within a few moments we were sipping extra-dry martinis from paper cups , then eating cold chicken and tinned ham , with beer chilled by the sea . |
| 11 | Within a few moments I was on a floater , crossing the fairly well-lit spaceport , still with no one in sight anywhere around me . |
| 12 | In a few moments they were alone . |
| 13 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 14 | In a few moments I was installed in a comfortable room about as near to the centre of Buda as it is possible to be . |