Example sentences of "[art] few moments " in BNC.
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| 31 | Just before we packed up and got aboard the truck , I piped up and down the beach for a few moments . |
| 32 | The driver stopped the jeep outside the Saulnier farm for a few moments to say goodbye to the farmer , a very good friend to the Commandos , especially No. 6 Commando . |
| 33 | We sat in the jeep for a few moments watching the column as it disappeared along the very dusty road , and was soon out of sight , after passing Sulnier 's farm . |
| 34 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
| 35 | The train stopped at Spean Bridge for a few moments , the platform was almost deserted . |
| 36 | They would have the fire brigade round in a few moments if the external noise had been as loud as the internal one . |
| 37 | After a few moments she was saying very natural and quite irritable ‘ ouches ’ when Phoebe prodded too hard . |
| 38 | ABOVE : Ben Weaver hooked this 19 lb 2 oz specimen in the nick of time — a few moments later gale force winds made fishing impossible . |
| 39 | After a few moments we realize why . |
| 40 | I 'd like to take a few moments of your time … |
| 41 | Yet their death by chainsaw took only a few moments . |
| 42 | When she is doing anything with children , she always squats down to their level , touches them and listens to them , and the response she gets in just a few moments with each is quite extraordinary . |
| 43 | Since martial law was imposed , with army checkposts everywhere , and a heavy plainclothes police presence , protests last only a few moments . |
| 44 | The highlight is ‘ Nhan Tin ’ ( or missing persons ) , which gives individual inmates a few moments to appeal to relatives living in America , Canada or Australia . |
| 45 | Suffice it , that I had a few moments of fanciful pleasure . |
| 46 | Then a few moments later he bemoaned — at great length — how London was getting increasingly ‘ homogenized and pasteurized ’ , milking the issue for all it was worth . |
| 47 | Mark stood for a few moments at the corner of Parliament Street and Bridge Street . |
| 48 | Nigel felt they were close for a few moments before the customary iciness set in . |
| 49 | She wanted a few moments to think . |
| 50 | ‘ Of course I 've got a plan , and you 'll see what it is in a few moments , if you 're too stupid to guess before that — ’ They swung round a bend and he swore suddenly and loudly . |
| 51 | There are the rare cases , as with the bronze and brass Etruscan statuettes described above , where a few moments spent performing a surface analysis can unequivocally solve a problem , which might have remained a stylistic conundrum for ever . |
| 52 | ‘ After we had prayed together in tears and heartbreak a few moments … 1 then dipped my finger in water and , as the priest to my own babe at such a moment , touching the little forehead in the sign of our redemption , said : ' ‘ I baptise thee Mary Salome , in the name of the Lord Jesus , of the Father and of the Holy Ghost . ' ’ |
| 53 | She could n't explain now her bitter fury of a few moments ago or why she had used Marie to take revenge on Simon . |
| 54 | The CO looked thoughtful for a few moments . |
| 55 | It was a few moments before an answer occurred to him . |
| 56 | There was silence for a few moments . |
| 57 | While you savour the delicious smell of new mown grass , relax for a few moments , drink in the March sunshine and enjoy the prospect of spring — that 's what gardening is all about . |
| 58 | For a few moments she just floats there , experiencing the feeling . |
| 59 | After a few moments her voice grew louder , and she started to shout at her mother . |
| 60 | He stood for a few moments thinking , and looking apprehensively from one stallion to the other . |