Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | János Hunyadi was regent of Hungary during the minority of King Ladislas V , but had to step down at the very moment of the fall of Constantinople when Ladislas came of age . |
| 2 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 3 | Just turn everything up , ’ and I said to the drummer , ‘ Get out there and start drumming the intro to Hot For Teacher and I 'll come in at the appropriate moment . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not your fault if my old boyfriends choose to drop in at the wrong moments . ’ |
| 5 | Land-agents and estate agents passing through at the brief moment of negotiation are likely to be more exclusively dominated by the money motive . |
| 6 | I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment . |
| 7 | Partially stenosed coronary arteries can often be re-bored using a hi-tech version of the pipe-cleaner known as a balloon catheter , so named because it can be blown up at the appropriate moment to expand the narrowed segment . |
| 8 | I think he 's at the bottom of a bog with a hole in his head and they 're waiting to scoop her up at the right moment . |
| 9 | Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment . |
| 10 | These points , figures , and analogies must be fixed in the memory so that they can be brought out at the appropriate moment . |
| 11 | Each of the ten matings ( the lights black out at the crucial moments , of course ) is a vignette illustrating the transience of human relationships and the inequality which exists between uncommitted sexual partners , as passion , love , lust and power are unevenly distributed , invariably resulting in unhappiness . |
| 12 | It would n't improve my chances of pleasing the God-King if more ceptors phased out at the wrong moment so that the ship set down on top of something valuable — like the royal palace , the Divine Sanctum . |