Example sentences of "at the wrong moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not your fault if my old boyfriends choose to drop in at the wrong moments . ’ |
| 2 | If such a risk is accepted , sooner or later the cable will break at the wrong moment and an accident will occur . |
| 3 | The week Donald White was shot , New York saw eight similar deaths : black students , good kids in the right place at the wrong moment . |
| 4 | Soon all those who dare to smile or weep at the wrong moment will be sent to the poles … a cruel ruler will seize power , everyone who does not learn to keep silent will be put in prison and the extermination of mankind will begin . ’ |
| 5 | Not a few men lost teeth because they had met the big man at the wrong moment . |
| 6 | BLINK at the wrong moment on Christmas Eve and you could miss a new world record being set . |
| 7 | He says : ‘ Computer technology became available precisely at the wrong moment in the profession 's development . |
| 8 | But his mind had clouded over again at the wrong moment and now it was too late . |
| 9 | Lifts could be on the wrong floor at the wrong moment . |
| 10 | I knew if I cut the anchor rope at the wrong moment , the Hispaniola would make a sudden move out to sea , and my boat might be knocked out of the water . |
| 11 | It would n't improve my chances of pleasing the God-King if more ceptors phased out at the wrong moment so that the ship set down on top of something valuable — like the royal palace , the Divine Sanctum . |
| 12 | In both the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents , the operators misread the reactor 's condition and shut off the emergency systems at the wrong moment . |
| 13 | Gaetano Salvemitu used to maintain that Mussolini ended in disaster because he always said Ja to Hitler at the wrong moment . |
| 14 | And it was as she hesitated , thinking of Liam , touched as so often , and usually at the wrong moment , by the silence and sadness of him which so troubled her , wondering if a sugar stick would lighten it , that she felt herself suddenly surrounded not by the usual ebb and flow of the market day crowd but by something much more purposeful . |
| 15 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |