Example sentences of "for [art] few moment [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , for a few moments they reverted to passive projection , in role merely as spectators of teacher 's performance . |
| 2 | He continued up the hill , and she went on down ; but a few paces further on she stopped and looked back , and it was at that precise moment that it happened , because he had turned back as well and for a few moments they looked longingly at each other , each tongue-tied , but each sure , now , of the other 's feelings . |
| 3 | For a few moments they moved in silence , then he said , ‘ Just as a matter of interest , why did you come to this party ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said briefly , and for a few moments they studied each other . |
| 5 | And for a few moments everything else was forgotten . |
| 6 | For a few moments her still-sleepy eyes refused to focus on the dramatic black handwriting . |
| 7 | For a few moments I was intensely conscious of the tree and saw nothing else . |
| 8 | For a few moments I was utterly terrified . |
| 9 | For a few moments I had let my mind plunge into darkness , into a world where the experience of all my life was disproved and ghosts existed . |
| 10 | For a few moments I felt disappointment . |
| 11 | For a few moments I was silent , feeling her sorrow , so discordant among the bright seasonal colours of this festive room . |
| 12 | Actually , I did n't like the way Diggs questioned me about what had happened , and for a few moments I thought he might have guessed , but my replies seemed to satisfy him . |
| 13 | He had dropped his telescope ; for a few moments he groped on the floor beside the window , but he no longer needed the telescope ; he could see perfectly well without it . |
| 14 | For a few moments he was content to look at the maid 's face and the way the orange firelight lent it strength and mystery . |
| 15 | For a few moments he lay panting , his side heaving in exhaustion . |
| 16 | For a few moments he watched them , and hearing their laughter and seeing the flush of innocent enjoyment in their faces he felt a sudden bitter pang of resentment that they should have their youth still and be free to enjoy it . |
| 17 | The kid gets on his bicycle ; for a few moments he wears the expression of someone who had just been made aware of his own mortality . |
| 18 | For a few moments he did n't seem to realise she was there . |
| 19 | For a few moments he was content to hold her , then the solar spun before Isabel 's vision as she was lifted into fitzAlan 's arms . |
| 20 | For a few moments he sat at the receiver , listening to the hollow hum of vacant ether , recovering . |
| 21 | For a few moments she just floats there , experiencing the feeling . |
| 22 | Nuala positively glowed , and for a few moments she looked like a child who had been given a present . |
| 23 | For a few moments she stared at the tawny eagle and then at Mr Wolski , and he looked at her . |
| 24 | For a few moments she was laughing so much she could n't speak . |
| 25 | For a few moments she thought she was trapped , with no way through the high walls that surrounded this part of the garden . |
| 26 | When she woke up again , just after daybreak , for a few moments she could n't remember where she was . |
| 27 | For a few moments she felt nineteen again , unsure and nervous , easily browbeaten because she had very little self-confidence . |
| 28 | For a few moments she imagined the scene as dark-suited managers with grim faces waited with bated breath for the one man who could step in and save the company … |
| 29 | But the vista that opened before them was so fantastic that for a few moments she almost forgot to be afraid . |
| 30 | For a few moments she thought he had no intention of answering her as her whole being quivered with indignation that he should have the nerve to pass judgement on her when not even her closest friends knew her innermost thoughts and longings . |