Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lay up all the following day , expecting to be attacked at any moment , but no enemy showed up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He can not be reached at this moment , and the question can not be shelved . |
| 4 | I left that meeting with the phrase , ‘ I am a lesbian , ’ ready to be spoken at any moment . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tensely they waited , expecting to be discovered at any moment . |
| 7 | She knew she could be killed at any moment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But if my own suspicions were aroused at that moment , Lord Darlington evidently did not share them . |
| 10 | Communication amongst friends includes a much broader field than what is being communicated at that moment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They were interrupted at that moment as Janice came hurrying over to greet them . |
| 15 | Adam would be questioned , was possibly being questioned at this moment . |
| 16 | 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 . |