Example sentences of "be [verb] at [det] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it does mean I know exactly how shitty you 're feeling at this moment , and all the horrible fates you 're wishing down on my head . ’ |
| 2 | But the case is different of course in modes of language use which are non-reciprocal , of which what I am doing at this moment is an obvious example . |
| 3 | They lay up all the following day , expecting to be attacked at any moment , but no enemy showed up . |
| 4 | After all , I had no real claim upon your attention , and I knew I meant so little to you I could be dropped at any moment without a second thought . |
| 5 | He can not be reached at this moment , and the question can not be shelved . |
| 6 | What would he be doing at this moment ? |
| 7 | What would you be doing at this moment , if I had n't been there ’ |
| 8 | Now she took care to change the subject and what could be more natural than to talk to the vet and his sister about Faustina and to speculate on what she might be doing at this moment . |
| 9 | No I 've got nothing else to be doing at this moment . |
| 10 | I left that meeting with the phrase , ‘ I am a lesbian , ’ ready to be spoken at any moment . |
| 11 | For it was she who told herself that nothing was to be gained at this moment by recrimination , that Sir George 's land and influence at Stockton were still big assets ( though nowhere near worth the price at which they had been bought ) , and that a moping Sir George — a sackcloth-ashes flagellant — could be all it needed to bring the whole structure of confidence tumbling down . |
| 12 | Tensely they waited , expecting to be discovered at any moment . |
| 13 | She knew she could be killed at any moment . |
| 14 | The signal of pain overrides any other signals that the brain may be receiving at that moment , any thoughts , ideas , or preoccupations are immediately swept aside so that the brain can attend to the pain and do something about it . |
| 15 | An emergency stop from 50 km/h ( 30 mph ) takes 33 metres , which , in a situation where a driver may be confronted at any moment by a dashing child , is clearly far too much . |
| 16 | They 're asked to make two still images showing what the townspeople might be feeling at this moment — first , about their success in getting the railway to the town , and secondly , about what they have done to the old man , who is now homeless . |
| 17 | But if my own suspicions were aroused at that moment , Lord Darlington evidently did not share them . |
| 18 | Communication amongst friends includes a much broader field than what is being communicated at that moment . |
| 19 | They 've been checked over , as I say , the first one 's been cleared , and that 's been allowed to proceed , and the next ship er is being checked at this moment . |
| 20 | I , on a point of order Madam Speaker , I understand that a major announcement in connection with rail privatisation is being made at this moment by way of written answer and press conference erm the statement will reveal a huge increase in access charges for railway operators and ultimately therefore huge increases in costs for tax payers and passengers . |
| 21 | He stood there in the crowded classroom , half listening to Mrs Willmot , and thought of the inexorable process going on all round him — the lives whose courses were being decided at this moment , behind the innocent-seeming chatter , the smiles , the faintly carnival atmosphere of families having a day out . |
| 22 | They were interrupted at that moment as Janice came hurrying over to greet them . |
| 23 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 24 | Adam would be questioned , was possibly being questioned at this moment . |
| 25 | Many inexperienced pilots do not even consider what the situation is going to be and only think about what is happening at that moment . |
| 26 | This aspect of Relativity is difficult fully to understand , but in simplest terms we can say that it is impossible to consider whatever is happening at this moment on & alpha Centauri , about 4.5 lightyears away , as sharing a ‘ now ’ with whatever is happening here . |
| 27 | Coutts had been informed that a cheque for $6m was expected at any moment from MGM films in America — payment for the distribution rights of Electric Dreams . |
| 28 | The House of Lords was deliberating at that moment whether such people could legally be Trustees of a Church of England School ( it was eventually decided that they could not ) . |
| 29 | Dennis eventually went off with her on his own , leaving Nicholson to return alone to their hotel where he acted out some kind of ritual guarding of their rooms , ready to forewarn of an attack he was expecting at any moment from some non-existent Red Indians . |
| 30 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |