Example sentences of "paused for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I paused for a moment , then said , ‘ Kathleen , let me tell you what I think would happen if I did as you say and then you tell me where I 'm going wrong . |
| 2 | She paused for a moment . |
| 3 | I paused for a moment , then added : ‘ Why did you come , then ? ’ |
| 4 | I paused for a moment , then added , ‘ Would you mind if I had some pudding ? ’ |
| 5 | She paused for a moment . |
| 6 | It 's a very personal way of thinking and writing which we have encountered several times already , and which now , twenty-seven years after that letter to his brother , appears most insistently with Raskolnikov as he Paused for a moment to take breath , to collect himself , and to enter as a man ’ and tell the police who it was killed the old money-lender and her sister . |
| 7 | He paused for a moment , ‘ Not as exciting as the landing on the morning of 6th June ? ’ |
| 8 | Wilde paused for a moment … |
| 9 | He came to the Kingsbrook bridge and paused for a moment on the parapet , listening to the soft suck and chatter of the stream . |
| 10 | The Pastor paused for a moment and looked thoughtfully at his flock and , Erika was convinced , piercingly at her . |
| 11 | Frau Nordern paused for a moment then waved her hand . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ Cooper-Key paused for a judicious few seconds , ‘ if you insist . ’ |
| 13 | Charles Cooper , also there for the Justice Department , remembered that North paused for a moment , silent , before he responded . |
| 14 | In Kufra district many of the foreigners were black , and Tibbu-speakers from Chad were the majority , a presence which alarmists saw as overwhelming because they counted as resident those who paused for a week or a month on their way north or south . |
| 15 | When she had lugged her third skip up to the scribbling engine , she paused for a moment to watch Rose , who by now resembled a tar baby stuck all over with dirty wool . |
| 16 | He paused for a moment . |
| 17 | She paused for a moment under a feeble electric light to recover her self-possession , drawing the clean cold air into her lungs , before plunging once more into the third circle of this industrial inferno . |
| 18 | I had for some reason gone up to M. Dupont 's room and was about to knock , but before doing so , as is my custom , I paused for a second to listen at the door . |
| 19 | He paused for a moment . |
| 20 | He turned and headed for the door where he paused for a moment . |
| 21 | I paused for a moment to shout farewell to the driver , but when I turned , Mick had his back to me , leaning inside the rear of the Land Rover . |
| 22 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 23 | He paused for a while , before saying , ‘ We are prepared to give you a month 's trial . ’ |
| 24 | After crossing the dock channel by way of the lock gates catwalk , they paused for a while watching and listening to the bedlam of noise from the riveting guns as the shipyard men worked on a small coastal tanker in the dry dock . |
| 25 | I paused for a moment , unsure of which path to take . |
| 26 | He paused for a minute . |
| 27 | The Captain walked to the head of the gangplank and paused for a moment , stroking the worn rail with an almost loving touch . |
| 28 | With great grace she straddled his body , and paused for a moment , upright above him , her body as pale and slender as a wand . |
| 29 | She paused for a moment and then went on , ‘ Since thoo told me about t'baby , Aah 've been thinking . |
| 30 | She paused for a moment and then went on . |