Example sentences of "him [prep] [art] [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared at him for a long moment wondering if in her indignation she had hurt his feelings , but his eyes were narrowed and she could not read his expression . |
| 2 | She stared at him for a long moment before she took in what he had said . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , just let us talk to him for a few moments , ’ said one of them . |
| 4 | Annie stood watching him for a few moments . |
| 5 | A 13-month-old London boy drowned when he fell off a ‘ topple-proof ’ bath chair while his mother had left him for a few moments . |
| 6 | The woman stared at him for a few moments as she mulled over his offer . |
| 7 | His face was absorbed , and Hilary stood quietly , studying him for a few moments . |
| 8 | With an embarrassed shrug , she leaned more comfortably against the seat , and , watching him for a few moments , asked curiously , ‘ Why did you invite me today ? ’ |
| 9 | She stared at him for a further moment , then meekly she obeyed and he smiled . |
| 10 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |
| 11 | ‘ You may perhaps gain the kingdom of heaven by your prayers , ’ he told him in an unkind moment , ‘ but never the kingdom of Great Britain . ’ |
| 12 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 13 | Because she turned unexpectedly she surprised him in an unguarded moment of frank sexual appraisal , but his dark , unsmiling gaze continued to hold hers steadily until she looked away again . |
| 14 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 15 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 16 | Never trusted him from the first moment . |
| 17 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |
| 18 | ‘ Now I want to share with him from the earliest moments the joy , the vindication , the victory after all that we have gone through together . ’ |
| 19 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 20 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 21 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 22 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 23 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 24 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |