Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [art] moment [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexei 's eyes seemed to stare for a moment into the middle distance . |
| 2 | They should be pleased to turn for a moment from the Annual Assessment , which even they find a little dull , to some piece of historical research . |
| 3 | By day the grey alpaca coat , left behind by Twomey , covered him like a night-shirt ; the turned-back sleeves often fell over his hands to hang for a moment with a pierrot 's sadness . |
| 4 | I also think that before sitting in judgement on Dr Hari 's ‘ uncritical use of the concept of ‘ normality ’ ’ , a social scientist of Dr Oliver 's calibre might stop to think for a moment about the social context in which those remarks were made . |
| 5 | I want us to think for a moment about the rights and needs of all those millions of children who do not go to school , who are invisible because very often development programmes tend to ignore er their needs . |
| 6 | It is appropriate at this point to digress for a moment on the subject of the faunistic changes that took place at the end of the Palaeozoic . |