Example sentences of "[verb] the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our wickets started tumbling the moment we went in . |
| 2 | She had realised the moment he walked into the Customs office that Nathan Bryce was not a man to cross . |
| 3 | Antonio de Herrera 's History , published in Madrid eighty-eight years later , records the moment thus . |
| 4 | Thus , every three years or so , a strident siren echoed across the Dantesque landscape of Winnington to signal the moment for everyone within eye- or ear-shot to retire to a safe distance and to watch the plant reduce itself to a concrete skeleton . |
| 5 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 6 | The skinny little waiters bow and grin the moment you enter , there are dim lights on heavy red wallpaper , white linen tablecloths , candles , and you get poppadums in your hands in no time at all . |
| 7 | He laughed , and she found herself laughing with him , enjoying the moment , wanting it to continue . |
| 8 | Smith was enjoying the moment . |
| 9 | Bernice 's mind was suddenly filled with a vivid memory : she was almost reliving the moment when she and the Doctor had been discussing the difficulty of tampering with the TARDIS . |
| 10 | And above all pupils were the first to acknowledge the moment when they moved from acceptable to unacceptable standards . |
| 11 | Four months at the mercy of the weather taught Mr Glennie to enjoy the moment . |
| 12 | It is a Lacanian moment , a refusal of closure , a moment of terrifying cosmic insight into the savage presence of other contingencies , which haunts the moment of decision . |
| 13 | Secondly , he must be ‘ absolutely assured that the High Command was in a position to furnish us with the necessary men and material for the continuance of the offensive , and that not by driblets , but on a large scale ’ Thirdly , the campaign should be halted the moment ‘ we ourselves were losing more heavily and becoming exhausted more rapidly than the enemy ’ . |
| 14 | Time wasted can not be recovered , so it is crucial that we have a system designed and ready to implement the moment that any colliery closes . |
| 15 | This drove a much harder bargain and , it has been suggested , represents the moment at which Edward overplayed his hand . |
| 16 | Given Nizan 's view that 1914 represents the moment of closure of this particular historical period , it is not surprising that in the concluding chapters of the novel the historical environment is virtually ignored and an anguished , existential discourse comes to the forefront . |
| 17 | The Maastricht Treaty thus represents the moment at which all the Federalist tendencies which have been present during four decades of integration emerged and , if ratified , were legally sanctioned . |
| 18 | In his Sunday dress of jeans and a fresh white shirt , he looked as if he 'd get mugged the moment he set foot in a town with more cars than horses . |
| 19 | Harriet stiffened , totally taken by surprise and annoyed with herself for not realising the moment he mentioned insurance the reason why he was here . |
| 20 | He is now seeing the moment of ultimate feedback . |
| 21 | For instance , a close-up of a hand dipping into a slightly tremulous bath of mercury renders the moment when a character penetrates the mirror . |
| 22 | Robert Montague was staying at a friend 's house in Cornwall one long , wet weekend in early December when he realised the moment had come to strike . |
| 23 | He did n't want any of the riff-raff polluting the moment . |
| 24 | It also , vitally , causes the moment of sensation to be prolonged . |
| 25 | Her claim to the throne was shattered the moment Premier John Major read out Buckingham Palace 's statement that she and Charles are to separate . |
| 26 | He told me to watch for a seaman with one leg and to let him know the moment when a man like that appeared . |
| 27 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 28 | Yesterday Cameron Mackintosh , who as producer has successfully taken Les Mis around the globe , described the moment the musical 's Manchester premier came to a grinding and inglorious halt . |
| 29 | One British crewman on a French helicopter described the moment he realised he was too late to save a young child . |
| 30 | Agnes 's head was down over her cigarette ; it was Maxim who caught the moment of stillness in Magill 's big restless body . |