Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [art] moment [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Erm but not everybody 's quite so erm y'know not everybody gets on with everybody and um this kind of what you might call personal chemistry , to lapse for a moment into pharmacological determinism er maybe helps um maybe helps a bit .
2 Alexei 's eyes seemed to stare for a moment into the middle distance .
3 At the very least , the assailant may be made to pause for a moment before attacking , and this may be just enough to allow the prey to escape .
4 They should be pleased to turn for a moment from the Annual Assessment , which even they find a little dull , to some piece of historical research .
5 By day the grey alpaca coat , left behind by Twomey , covered him like a night-shirt ; the turned-back sleeves often fell over his hands to hang for a moment with a pierrot 's sadness .
6 ‘ Everybody 's a contender , ’ Maxim said , so softly that Agnes had to think for a moment to be sure what she 'd heard .
7 I also think that before sitting in judgement on Dr Hari 's ‘ uncritical use of the concept of ‘ normality ’ ’ , a social scientist of Dr Oliver 's calibre might stop to think for a moment about the social context in which those remarks were made .
8 In this short speech , I wish to think for a moment about all the youngsters who were so badly damaged and hurt by that evil man .
9 I want us to think for a moment about the rights and needs of all those millions of children who do not go to school , who are invisible because very often development programmes tend to ignore er their needs .
10 One way to avoid this is to think for a moment before beginning , searching for some idea , however brief , on which our imagination can work .
11 His gaze raked her body , returning to linger for a moment on her mouth .
12 It is appropriate at this point to digress for a moment on the subject of the faunistic changes that took place at the end of the Palaeozoic .
13 When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait .
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