Example sentences of "there had been a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been a moment 's silence and then Alice had said : ‘ My father died , killed in an accident when I was fifteen . ’ |
| 2 | There had been a moment when he sat back and looked at her , naked and submissive in the grass , and his heart started to sing and his mind spun into a dazzling vision of what might be … because we can only ever be a might-have-been , my dear love … that little boy with dark mischievous eyes , slender and supple , and Ireland 's future Prince … |
| 3 | Perhaps there had been a moment where Lucy 's guard had been down and she might have been diverted , but the moment had now passed . |
| 4 | There had been a moment in his career , as he declared in the interesting preface he wrote to Josef Pieper 's Leisure the Basis of Culture and as Brand Blanshard has retailed in the Eliot Anniversary Issue of The Southern Review ( 1985 ) , ( ‘ Eliot at Oxford ’ ) , when , after a good deal of philosophical study , lie had decided to renounce the subject as such . |
| 5 | And yet … there had been a moment when Dane 's undeniable magnetism had reached out to her , too , ensnaring her in its thrall just as surely as it captured every other female . |