Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for a moment " in BNC.
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| 31 | I hesitated for a moment on the stairs , turned round and tried to look at some of them , to see if there was a familiar face , a suspicious or suspecting face , a face I could place , a face that could … |
| 32 | Realizing what they represented , he added quickly , ‘ Not that I think for a moment that you … though , of course , ’ he floundered ever deeper , ‘ naturally , a man like , you , presentable and so forth , you probably have several … ’ |
| 33 | I thought I had for a moment . ’ |
| 34 | I paused for a moment , then said , ‘ Kathleen , let me tell you what I think would happen if I did as you say and then you tell me where I 'm going wrong . |
| 35 | I paused for a moment , then added : ‘ Why did you come , then ? ’ |
| 36 | I paused for a moment , then added , ‘ Would you mind if I had some pudding ? ’ |
| 37 | I paused for a moment to shout farewell to the driver , but when I turned , Mick had his back to me , leaning inside the rear of the Land Rover . |
| 38 | I paused for a moment , unsure of which path to take . |
| 39 | I paused for a moment . |
| 40 | Look , can I sit for a moment ? |
| 41 | I return for a moment to the link between pre-school education and the later propensity towards crime . |
| 42 | I rest for a moment , availing myself of the leather bike seat on its stiff chrome stand . |
| 43 | This done , I stood for a moment looking across at the broch islet . |
| 44 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
| 45 | I wondered for a moment whether I was dreaming , and then silently gave thanks . |
| 46 | I wondered for a moment at the intricate patterns of life . |
| 47 | A doctor sometimes sees people with a different eye from other people , and I wondered for a moment whether , despite her beauty and her apparently special position on the island , she was really happy . |
| 48 | I wondered for a moment if he was dead drunk ; but I fancy not . " |
| 49 | I wondered for a moment about this strange near-miss , and what a trout might be doing crossing the road , until I saw a fisherman standing aside , who can only have dropped his slippery catch on the roadway and was waiting to recapture it . |
| 50 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 51 | Please could I ask for a moment 's silence and look to the north er we wil where we will have a dedication fly past by A-Tens of the Eighty-First Tactical Fighter Wing . |
| 52 | She sits for a moment on the arm of the chair , and rests her hand on my neck . |
| 53 | She stopped for a moment and took a deep breath before checking the next crate . |
| 54 | She took her notepad from the pocket of her apron as she went , and at the doorway she stopped for a moment as if to gather herself . |
| 55 | She stopped for a moment , and put her shoes back on for walking on the hard tarmac . |
| 56 | She stopped for a moment , as if the basket were overburdening her , and put it down . |
| 57 | She stopped for a moment to brush the dust from her hands and clothes and set off back to the house . |
| 58 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 59 | She stopped for a moment to get her bearings . |
| 60 | She stopped for a moment . |