Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] seconds [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its place , as he at last began to carefully , cautiously move inside her , came waves of wondrous , heart-stopping pleasure , so that in the final seconds before some internal eruption emptied her brain and dizzied her senses , she gouged her nails unthinkingly into his back , and wrapped her legs around him in unthinking , mindless surrender … |
| 2 | It was in the final seconds that Morris hurried a clearing kick to touch which fell tantalisingly short . |
| 3 | He did n't hesitate and say ‘ I 'll have to ask God about that ’ ; in the few seconds that it took her to express her need , Elisha knew what to say to her . |
| 4 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 5 | Could it be that ? she wondered , in the few seconds before he spoke . |
| 6 | She felt a flood of heat as he stared down at her , felt the deepening intensity of his gaze on her in the few seconds before his mouth descended slowly to take possession of her lips . |
| 7 | It has been developing away on a polymer foam that is intended to fill an entire building ‘ from floor to ceiling ’ in a few seconds after an alarm is tripped . |
| 8 | Conversely , a large-scale and long-period phenomenon such as the movement of tectonic plates can lead to local stress accumulation and to its release by an earthquake in a few seconds and with highly local effects . |
| 9 | He absorbed the little gray figures in a few seconds and his face bulged . |
| 10 | But when the edge had dulled it was no problem and on the harder wood a burn mark could be left in a few seconds if very little pressure was applied with the cutter just spinning on the surface . |