Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not necessary for you to meet him at the moment — in fact , he is not here right at this moment — but you may use the telephone . |
| 2 | ‘ Nobody 's finding it very easy to meet him at the moment , ’ said Charlotte . |
| 3 | The name seemed to halt him for a moment , but when his hands were again moving over her , the scream she let out crying , ‘ Mother ! |
| 4 | But I need to see you for a moment . |
| 5 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 6 | There 's no one to help me at the moment , Léonie added : so I have to get all the china out of the bonnetière all by myself . |
| 7 | They 're chewing up the lawn but Carl there 's nowhere else to put them at the moment . |
| 8 | Now this leaflet which I 'm going to give you in a moment er is called How To Put Things Right which i i is quite a good title for a leaflet like this . |
| 9 | it 's , I ca n't see any other way to do it at the moment , I mean probably when I |
| 10 | They get some man to do it at the moment . |
| 11 | I think I did , I thought about that but I ca n't afford to do it at the moment there look see you can get the , the L ones the double seat ones and the little ones look |
| 12 | better than not being able to afford to do it at the moment , |
| 13 | I would like to have it very much because music is one of the great pleasures in life to me but I just have nowhere to put it at the moment . |
| 14 | Vass spread his long fingers over the chair arms and seemed to contemplate them for a moment . |
| 15 | Claudia accepted his arm round her shoulders as inevitable ; she was far too tired to fight him at the moment . |
| 16 | His eyes seemed to study her for a moment . |
| 17 | The policewoman decided to believe her for the moment . |
| 18 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |
| 19 | Grateful to be spared the unsettling power of that dark gaze , Ronni took the opportunity to study him for a moment . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's how I plan to keep it at the moment . |
| 21 | With the binoculars that they carried , they must have been able to see her from the moment that she set out . |
| 22 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to be on his way , I would not wish to delay him for a moment . |
| 23 | He continued to watch her for a moment , then murmured , ‘ I liked him . ’ |
| 24 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 25 | She wanted to savour it for a moment . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd rather be doing it on my own , ’ Maria responded waspishly , taking advantage of the fact that no one was near enough to overhear them for the moment . |
| 27 | ‘ Would you be so kind as to excuse me for a moment ? |
| 28 | ‘ You have to excuse her at the moment ; she … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I particularly do n't want to get it at the moment , ’ he said rather irritably . |
| 30 | to stop them at the moment . |