Example sentences of "arrive at [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youths , being Moslems , were not having this from any woman , even if she were a great lady , and things would have gone ill for Zeinab if Owen had not arrived at that moment , on his way to her flat . |
| 2 | But to arrive at that moment , he wrote , it is necessary to be patient , it is necessary to hold back , it is often necessary to do nothing . |
| 3 | Denice is never late , so we 've been told , and she 's due to arrive at any moment . |
| 4 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 5 | Firstly , he could not be sure whether other surviving members of the killer pack might arrive at any moment to join the attack on him . |
| 6 | ‘ His third child , they say , will arrive at any moment , God protect them . |
| 7 | He also must know that my ships from Denmark might arrive at any moment . |