Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [adj] moment " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The dream lingered through the endless moments while I trudged up the clinging sand , seeing our little cottage grow larger and more ominous , till suddenly it was if the film director grew tired and cut to me opening the cupboard door and peeping out . |
| 2 | A biting , end-to-end wind did not assist the enjoyment of the night for players or spectators , and goals from both sides were each scored in the dying moments of the halves . |
| 3 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 4 | One Christmas Eve I woke at the critical moment , and saw , not Santa Claus , but three familiar figures indulging in heavy horse play at the foot of the bed . |
| 5 | When the attack finally came Madrid withstood it , thanks in part to the courage of the left-wing militias and the ordinary people of the city , and in part to the stiffening effect of the first International Brigades — foreign volunteers organized by the Comintern , who arrived at the crucial moment . |
| 6 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 7 | A usual ploy was to have to re-tie one 's gym shoe just as one 's turn came round , but it only staved off the evil moment . |
| 8 | Madame Czechowska felt embarrassed and it was Zborowski who coped with the awkward moment . |
| 9 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 10 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 11 | Mungo admired Emily 's patience as she waited for the right moment to mention his proposition . |
| 12 | After Theo had gone , Vincent waited for the right moment to break his own news to Sien . |
| 13 | He waited for the right moment , walked calmly across the road , knelt down , put his neck across the railway line and waited for a loaded van to sever his head . |
| 14 | Carefully she waited until the right moment . |