Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] for [art] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came back , I went to the children 's room , to see if they needed me , and I listened for a moment at their door . |
| 2 | He produced a pocket-book and I thought for a moment he was going to tip me . |
| 3 | ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’ |
| 4 | A doctor sometimes sees people with a different eye from other people , and I wondered for a moment whether , despite her beauty and her apparently special position on the island , she was really happy . |
| 5 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 6 | The flat Polish landscape stretched away into the marshes to the south-east , and I stopped for a moment and stared towards them . |