Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] a moment " in BNC.

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1 I asked after a moment .
2 cost money , but as far as this committee is concerned the one , of the particular threats is to strategic planning an and that 's something I , I referred to a moment or two ago .
3 The flat Polish landscape stretched away into the marshes to the south-east , and I stopped for a moment and stared towards them .
4 I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house .
5 I focus for a moment on one arch carved into the Redwall limestone .
6 ‘ That 's right , I forgot for a moment .
7 When Granpa asked me what I wanted for my fifteenth birthday I replied without a moment 's hesitation , ‘ My own barrow , ’ and added that I 'd nearly saved enough to get one .
8 At the top of the stairs I turned for a moment and found out .
9 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 .
10 ( 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 . )
11 I watched for a moment .
12 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 .
13 I thought for a moment .
14 I thought for a moment .
15 I thought for a moment that I had come second ; I had n't seen Ben at all .
16 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 .
17 I thought for a moment .
18 I thought for a moment , but could not find the right answer .
19 I thought for a moment there I was going to get hysterical and start yelling knickers .
20 He produced a pocket-book and I thought for a moment he was going to tip me .
21 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 .
22 I thought for a moment .
23 ‘ 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 . ’
24 I thought for a moment that you 'd run out on me . ’
25 Her hair was fair , so that I thought for a moment of the other woman I had met recently , Elizabeth Lavenza .
26 ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’
27 I thought for a moment that he was going to beat me .
28 ‘ Well in September eighteen and a half years ago , ’ I thought for a moment , ‘ I had just finished my exams .
29 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 .
30 I thought for a moment .
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