Example sentences of "[verb] a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | singled out by the Decree of an Inscrutable Providence from the midst of the Distinguished Multitude that Surrounded him , in the full pride of his Talents and the Perfection of his Usefulness , met with the Accident that Occasioned his Death ; which deprived England of an Illustrious Statesman and Liverpool of its Most Honoured Representative ; which changed a moment of the Noblest Exultation and Triumph that Science and Genius had ever achieved into one of Desolation and Mourning , and striking Terror into the Hearts of Assembled Thousands brought home into every Bosom the Forgotten Truth that ‘ In the Midst of Life we are in Death ’ . |
| 2 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 3 | This is the sort of case in which judges must exercise the discretionary power described a moment ago , to use extralegal standards to make what conventionalism declares to be new law . |
| 4 | I am in wonderful health , but I shall not enjoy a moment until my ship goes to sea . |
| 5 | You probably would n't even recognise a moment like that today if it happened , now they 've turned us into football TV junkies with all this coverage . ’ |
| 6 | There he found a moment of illusory tranquillity with his stepdaughter and her two sons , before setting out on the journey which was to end at Saint Helena . |
| 7 | Carrie thought she caught a moment of panic in Annie 's eyes and she held up her hands to reassure her . |
| 8 | Dons president John Fashanu has suffered his own autumnus horribilis , and his recovery from a hip injury has n't come a moment too soon for manager Joe Kinnear . |
| 9 | I mentioned a moment ago Mr Graham , the valet-butler to Sir James Chambers . |
| 10 | I mentioned a moment ago that we seek er total choice and total flexibility in the utopian open systems world . |
| 11 | These funds are only one element of the package of extra resources for students which I mentioned a moment ago . |
| 12 | This continuity has practical as well as expressive value , because it facilitates the organic style of change I mentioned a moment ago as a practical advantage . |
| 13 | Ultimately it was Nayim 's audacious away goal that ruled , but only in the closing minutes had the Londoners enjoyed a moment 's respite from the pumped-up Fourth Division team , who had Roy McDonough sent off for a reckless tackle near the end . |
| 14 | They thought of the movies as a mechanical novelty , a meaningless and trivial craze which might be allowed to provide a moment 's distraction at a music-hall or vaudeville show but which normally belonged to the amusement arcade or fairground . |
| 15 | I 'm as much in line for the title as the rabbit you inferred a moment ago I 'd be unable to support . |
| 16 | Andrew and Virginia watched numbly as Horatia went to the door , returning a moment or two later with a small boy with silver-gold hair and eyes the colour of aquamarines . |
| 17 | He turned and went down the four steps that led into the long , dark , low-ceilinged dining room , returning a moment later with a book from the shelves . |
| 18 | He got up and went across to a bureau in the corner furthest from the fire , returning a moment later with a folder which he handed to the T'ang . |
| 19 | She rose quietly and went into the pagoda , returning a moment later with a p'i p'a , the ancient four-stringed lute shaped like a giant teardrop . |
| 20 | Quickly she went into the next room , returning a moment later with a small linen basket . |
| 21 | Turning from him she went to the cupboards , returning a moment later with powders and unguents . |
| 22 | Molly nodded and hurried off to fetch one , returning a moment later . |
| 23 | The young man nodded and scuttled off , returning a moment later with a much older man in tow . |
| 24 | The officer turned away , returning a moment later with a clipboard to which were attached the preliminary , handwritten reports . |
| 25 | He left them , returning a moment later with a bulky , rectangular parcel wrapped in red silk . |
| 26 | The crying stopped a moment . |
| 27 | Tallis called , and as if it had understood its name the Green Jack stopped a moment , stared sadly at the woman with the horse . |
| 28 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 29 | ‘ But Christmas is surely the right moment to try to put it behind us and to find a moment to pray for those , wherever they are , who are doing their best in all sorts of ways to make things better in 1993 . ’ |
| 30 | But Christmas is surely the right moment to try to put it behind us and to find a moment to pray for those , wherever they are , who are doing their best in all sorts of ways to make things better in 1993 . |