Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at [det] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spotted at once the no-nonsense tones of the Koran , and , as always when The Book was being quoted , kept his eyes on his chest and tried to look like a man willing to leap off his chair on to all fours , ready for total prostration at any moment . |
| 2 | It had n't struck us till then that we had laughed particularly , but I remembered my old Headmistress at that moment ! |
| 3 | The dancing man was standing out in the middle of the road as though unaware of the scarlet double-decker which might trundle down the High Street at any moment to knock him down . |
| 4 | Henry grasped the opportunity ; it could lead to Paris ( which the Burgundian party at that moment controlled ) and to much else , besides . |
| 5 | as if the happenings of the last thousand years had been impregnated in the massive stone walls , and could begin a phantom replay at any moment … |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd drink of a cup of cold piss at this moment in time , Tony , if it blotted out the world . |
| 7 | Tammuz had the feeling he must be appearing like a predatory beast at that moment , and wished Zambia was there to put the kid at his ease . |
| 8 | He is in a unique position at this moment . |
| 9 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 10 | In every village round the Long Mountain at this moment the news was blowing like a cold and killing wind . |
| 11 | The answer to the question had to be in his tautly-held head at that moment and it was as inaccessible to me as Alpha Centauri . |
| 12 | ‘ My over-riding concern at this moment is to give sensitive and practical pastoral support to all those caused distress and hurt by the decision , ’ said the Bishop of Southwell in Notts , the Rt Rev Patrick Harris . |
| 13 | Of his extreme misery at this moment there could be no doubt . |
| 14 | The difference being that when Michael was like this he was liable to explode into a raging temper at any moment . |
| 15 | Henry 's only plan at this moment was to play for time . |
| 16 | For to revile this troublesome boy at this moment was to damage whatever claim Ramsey had to the stake for which the bold wretch had made so perilous a bid . |
| 17 | She had no idea what to do ; somehow fighting was not the right thing at this moment . |
| 18 | He was probably livid right at this moment , at her rejection of him . |
| 19 | She thinks of her father , whom she has never known , of whom she knows nothing , almost nothing , but whose image , it is alleged , is in that locket : an image which also hangs in an identical locket at this moment around her sister 's neck . |
| 20 | Most commanders would have been afflicted with convenient deafness at that moment , but Davout rounded on the speaker at once . |
| 21 | Now , I do n't expect Matthew to support that for one moment , but what I 'm saying to committee is that is our pragmatic solution at this moment . |
| 22 | Jimmy the actor was dressed in a maroon VIA Rail station uniform , Zak was intent , and Ricky , due on in gory glory at any moment , was checking in a small handmirror that ‘ blood ’ was cascading satisfactorily from a gash on his head . |
| 23 | The whole campaign dragged on him with a dead weight at this moment . |