Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flat Polish landscape stretched away into the marshes to the south-east , and I stopped for a moment and stared towards them . |
| 2 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 3 | I focus for a moment on one arch carved into the Redwall limestone . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's right , I forgot for a moment . |
| 5 | At the top of the stairs I turned for a moment and found out . |
| 6 | Past more bushes now , I stand for a moment on the edge of a sacred area , which I share with the rabbits for which it is home . |
| 7 | ( I digress for a moment to point out that , while this proposal would have included obtaining by false pretences within the definition of stealing , that was not the option preferred by the committee , as your Lordships will have noted . ) |
| 8 | I watched for a moment . |
| 9 | I listened at length to her story , then I talked for a moment about the unshakeable fact of the resurrection , about the city where God will wipe away every tear . |
| 10 | I thought for a moment . |
| 11 | I thought for a moment . |
| 12 | I thought for a moment that I had come second ; I had n't seen Ben at all . |
| 13 | I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government . |
| 14 | I thought for a moment . |
| 15 | I thought for a moment , but could not find the right answer . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought for a moment there I was going to get hysterical and start yelling knickers . |
| 17 | He produced a pocket-book and I thought for a moment he was going to tip me . |
| 18 | I thought for a moment that she had been re-reading " Das Kapital " in her spare time , but I suspect that it was all a charade . |
| 19 | I thought for a moment . |
| 20 | ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I thought for a moment that you 'd run out on me . ’ |
| 22 | Her hair was fair , so that I thought for a moment of the other woman I had met recently , Elizabeth Lavenza . |
| 23 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 24 | I thought for a moment that he was going to beat me . |
| 25 | ‘ Well in September eighteen and a half years ago , ’ I thought for a moment , ‘ I had just finished my exams . |
| 26 | I thought for a moment he was gathering his coat tails around him , like a woman would gather a long skirt , but it was n't that at all . |
| 27 | I thought for a moment . |
| 28 | I thought for a moment . |
| 29 | I thought for a moment he meant the tobacco industry , but realised that when big business and jobs are involved the 100,000 deaths per year counts for nothing . |
| 30 | When I came back , I went to the children 's room , to see if they needed me , and I listened for a moment at their door . |