Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] moment [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for that moment you are there for them . |
| 2 | It 's only three or four paces , but in that moment he sees Tommy tense his arm at full stretch and turn his head away . |
| 3 | She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation . |
| 4 | They were only three words but at that moment they were as pertinent as the universe . |
| 5 | He looked as if he were about to turn on his aunty as well , but at that moment they were interrupted by a clatter and a crash and the wail of a child . |
| 6 | Willi looked very dubious , but at that moment they heard voices in the lobby outside . |
| 7 | Charity opened her mouth to say that a Mercedes was really not on her list of aspirations , but at that moment they approached a sharp twist in the path and were almost knocked over by an electric golf cart careening around it . |
| 8 | But at that moment he woke up . |
| 9 | But at that moment she became aware that there was another person in the room . |
| 10 | She was rarely pleased to see Damien , but at that moment she could cheerfully have driven red-hot nails into his ugly wedge of a face . |
| 11 | The immigrant ship to South Africa , and all that followed , was still in the womb of time ; but at that moment I resolved that though I would grieve for Leslie for the rest of my life , I would yet to go forward , lighting my way by the torch of the incandescent spirit . |
| 12 | I knew I must talk with her again , but at that moment I was content to have used the words of the last of the great desert explorers . |
| 13 | Yes I can appreciate that but at this moment I 'm not worried or bothered about any prosecutions in relation to this matter I 'm bothered about the ch the child 's er health . |
| 14 | He had promised himself that he would not get too involved with her , but at this moment he could no more have parted from her than he could have cut his own throat . |
| 15 | When Pip finds out that Estella is to marry Drummle he is shocked but at this moment he is more devoted to Magwitch who will be hanged if he is caught . |
| 16 | But at this moment it was as though he were watching a play … |
| 17 | I would with goodwill repay Master Parry his daughter 's dowry , but at this moment it is out of my power . |
| 18 | Normally Miss Honey was terrified of the Headmistress and kept well away from her , but at this moment she felt ready to take on anybody . |
| 19 | But at this moment she did n't care . |
| 20 | Kelly laughed again , but for one moment I was afraid she 'd do something awful like ask if Lucy was pretty , or something . |
| 21 | It had appeared , it would move on , but for this moment it was there for her — almost as if it had waited for her to be alone . |