Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Referring to the customer , he said : ‘ He was committed at the very moment that he put his money into the machine . |
| 2 | This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection . |
| 3 | And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’ |
| 4 | It should be harnessed at the very moment . ’ |
| 5 | There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun . |
| 6 | This was seen at the very moment of James V 's death . |
| 7 | When we come to Waterloo the Great Duke 's extraordinary ability to be exactly where he was needed at the crucial moment is well described , as are his outward calm and inspiring courage . |
| 8 | Look , what you 've got at the present moment , Private Nobody , is a badly sprained ankle . |
| 9 | Among the more fascinating of his cases is one of a woman ( whom I shall call Judith ) who , having regressed to being a young woman in a previous lifetime ( we 'll call her Alice ) , went on in a later session to regress to being Alice 's mother — who , it is interesting to note , had died at the precise moment her daughter was born . |
| 10 | In this type of use , to is intercepted at the final moment of the movement it denotes , so that the adjective or main verb evokes not only how the person designated as the support of the infinitive was predisposed towards the realization of the latter 's event , but also his feelings at the time of its occurrence . |
| 11 | It is important that selection decisions are timed at the right moment in this chain . |
| 12 | Striptease … is based on a contradiction : Woman is desexualised at the very moment when she is stripped naked . |
| 13 | He had arrived at the precise moment when Elizabeth had begun to sob and then desolately to weep , and all Lydia 's skills , social , sexual and manipulative , had abruptly deserted her . |
| 14 | He had arrived at the precise moment when another twist in the plot of a murder weekend was unravelling itself . |
| 15 | ( It was used to make a " gun-shot " by being popped at the right moment , thereby creating the wrong time for the murder . |
| 16 | Winifred with a dead bird , Mrs. Jordan wanting her daily orders , even a fit of coughing — if any of these had happened at the right moment , she would never have invited Sarah on this visit . |