Example sentences of "at the precise moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , he was fishing on a fiord nearby at the precise moment when his detective brought him the news that Lord Mountbatten had been killed . |
| 2 | But besides ability , the other essential element in political success is luck ; and at the precise moment of ultimate achievement , her luck deserted her , and the hollowness of the victory was revealed . |
| 3 | He can do this by pressing push switch S4 ( the Batting switch ) at the precise moment that the ball reaches the ‘ bat ’ position ( l.e.d . |
| 4 | Among the more fascinating of his cases is one of a woman ( whom I shall call Judith ) who , having regressed to being a young woman in a previous lifetime ( we 'll call her Alice ) , went on in a later session to regress to being Alice 's mother — who , it is interesting to note , had died at the precise moment her daughter was born . |
| 5 | We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes . |
| 6 | If the helicopter is moving , to stop it you must apply an opposite control movement and then remove it at the precise moment that the helicopter stops . |
| 7 | Roebuck positioned and braced himself and at the precise moment drove his shoulder into Shelford 's midriff , stopped him instantaneously , before driving him into the Onewa Domain turf . |
| 8 | He had arrived at the precise moment when Elizabeth had begun to sob and then desolately to weep , and all Lydia 's skills , social , sexual and manipulative , had abruptly deserted her . |
| 9 | He had arrived at the precise moment when another twist in the plot of a murder weekend was unravelling itself . |
| 10 | It was at the precise moment at which they needed the assistance that it was cut . |
| 11 | He has variously claimed that from farts he can tell not only what people have eaten or drunk , but also the sort of person they are , what they ought to eat , whether they are emotionally unstable or upset , whether they are keeping secrets , laughing at you behind your back or trying to ingratiate themselves with you , and even what they are thinking about at the precise moment they issue the fart ( this largely from the sound ) . |
| 12 | There is a law of scholarship which stipulates that at the precise moment when the production of a book has reached the stage where no changes are possible , new source material appears . |
| 13 | He was preparing lunch at the precise moment . |