Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Peter rose at the same moment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Fascinated and repelled in the same moment she continued to watch the macabre spectacle despite herself , her lips parted , her eyes bright . |
| 5 | It ran straight , veered at the last moment and dropped . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She arrived at the same moment as Nina and they saw that Greg was already unlocking the factory ambulance and David was in consultation with one of the factory managers . |
| 10 | Delegations from Algeria and Yemen travelled to Moscow but withdrew at the last moment in solidarity with the Palestinian delegation . |
| 11 | The CDP also expressed its concern at the fact that no polytechnic director had been on the visiting party ( in fact , when the visiting party was first put together , it did include i polytechnic director , who withdrew at the last moment ) . |
| 12 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Madame Czechowska felt embarrassed and it was Zborowski who coped with the awkward moment . |
| 15 | He was supposed to deliver a bull to the district officer , it was about three weeks ago , and he decided at the last moment to replace the bull with another one . |
| 16 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I knew from the first moment you were the man for her . ’ |
| 19 | The train whistle blew at the same moment and her scream was drowned in it . |
| 20 | He took no stand , but resigned at the last moment from the Lloyd George Cabinet so as to be ingratiatingly available to continue as Foreign Secretary in the new Government . |
| 21 | However , they agreed at the last moment to participate . |
| 22 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 23 | Mungo admired Emily 's patience as she waited for the right moment to mention his proposition . |
| 24 | After Theo had gone , Vincent waited for the right moment to break his own news to Sien . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Carefully she waited until the right moment . |
| 27 | These are usually concealed and then flashed at the last moment , giving the prospective predator the impression that it is approaching a much larger animal and one that is staring straight at it in a defiant manner . |