Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] for a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sorry , yes , I was carried away for a moment there . |
| 2 | But Peter Hickton was only slowed down for a moment . |
| 3 | You had me worried there for a moment , I can tell you . ’ |
| 4 | He was taken in for a moment , and believed her . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sure she was n't taken in for a moment about — about me . ’ |
| 6 | There was a table beside it and a pipe lay on top as if it had been left just for a moment . |
| 7 | What a goose she was , she the loved and wanted one , to be afflicted even for a moment by any threat or doubt . |
| 8 | Cowslip seemed taken aback for a moment . |
| 9 | Mrs Diggory looked taken aback for a moment , but she took the hand and then ushered the lady inside , talking all the while . |
| 10 | That the curtain had blown aside for a moment |
| 11 | I was really choked up for a moment . |
| 12 | It stayed poised there for a moment and another question , another proclamation of innocence , then he brought it down ready to drive into the small man 's stomach again . |
| 13 | Before Sally-Anne could reply — and fortunately for her , for she needed to consider her answer carefully — there was a knocking at the door , and Dr Neil was required there for a moment . |
| 14 | The man had been writing in a book , he 'd taken the number of the car with an official air and Cormack had wondered why for a moment , then forgotten . |