Example sentences of "it [verb] for a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dropped the letter on to his desk where it fluttered for a moment , an innocent reminder of the arrangement made in that grey stone house in Ghent . |
| 2 | It fluttered for a moment and then folded right back against the fuselage , like a roosting bird . |
| 3 | It stopped for a moment , then went quietly into the long grass and disappeared for ever . |
| 4 | After the Reformation it looks for a moment as if the Ecclesiastical Courts would allow even a divorce in the modern sense ; but the attempt fails , and the only way of getting a complete dissolution of marriage is by special Act of Parliament ( and so the law remained , for persons domiciled in Northern Ireland , up to 1939 ) . |
| 5 | It sank for a moment , then rose again , and Alexei saw Jotan raise his eyebrows . |
| 6 | As Sharapour fell back it seemed for a moment as if he would get in the way of Mill Reef on the rails , but Lewis was alert to the perils of getting boxed in up the short Longchamp straight and pulled Mill Reef out to begin his challenge . |
| 7 | It hid for a moment behind a large , domed mausoleum before running past the gates of the Covenanter 's prison and through the archway leading to the rear of the graveyard . |
| 8 | It stuck for a moment and then we were outside . |
| 9 | It seems for a moment as if the world is peopled only by this god and this moon , facing each other through the aeons of the night . |
| 10 | Once they go it seems for a moment that neither it nor we have any real existence . |
| 11 | To begin with , they thought that the Robemaker had injured him in some unimaginable way , for the crimson mask still had him in its grip and in the flickering light , it looked for a moment as if the lower part of his face was covered in blood . |
| 12 | It struggled for a moment on the floor then vanished into a crevice behind a tile . |
| 13 | As she held it in her hands , it felt for a moment huge and heavy ; light glimmered from it , and the sea sounded in her ears . |
| 14 | She took the package and it lay for a moment in her lap while she stared down at it . |
| 15 | It resisted for a moment , then swung completely open , and they stood on the threshold , goggling in . |
| 16 | But the gap between Christ and the eating not only emphasizes the vegetation , but makes it seem for a moment that it is the plants which are devoured : |
| 17 | I tried that 26-letter word on my ‘ spellchecker ’ : it paused for a moment , then put up its hands with ‘ sorry , no suggestions ’ . |
| 18 | They set it tilted for a moment , leaning one side on a stone that Luch slipped under for them , while Ruari listened and sniffed and weighed the hive in his hand . |
| 19 | It remained for a moment , a definite form , before moving off at a half-crouched , shambling run to hide behind one of the gravestones . |