Example sentences of "[be] a moment " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Mrs. Hennessy wo n't be a moment , Tess . |
| 32 | ‘ Quick , get your deck on , ’ shouted Jim ‘ I think there might be a moment 's lull ! ’ |
| 33 | Often they result from particularly stressful circumstances but they may simply be a moment of carelessness . |
| 34 | I sha n't be a moment finishing off my share of him , and then you can have the bones . " |
| 35 | He 's jus just upstai he 's just upstairs so I sha n't be a moment I 'll go and call him . |
| 36 | ‘ Kettle wo n't be a moment . |
| 37 | It will only be a moment . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ Answer that , Claudia , and tell Roman I wo n't be a moment . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ I 'll only be a moment … and maybe we 'll do an extra blood-sugar reading in a little while to make sure being upset is n't making it go wonky . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ I wo n't be a moment . |
| 41 | There can not be a moment from which it passes from the class of invalid into that of valid covenants " . |
| 42 | ‘ He then said ‘ I wo n't be a moment ’ and disappeared for his warm up then he walked back into the changing room , stripped off to the waist again , carried on his conversation and continued drinking his beer . ’ |
| 43 | Sha n't be a moment . |
| 44 | I wo n't be a moment . |
| 45 | No it might have some more information , I wo n't be a moment . |
| 46 | Quite often , there 's a moment of truth — the realisation that there 's no way you can actually make all the minimum payments on your credit cards Then , the secret is to seek out the reason for your burning desire to go barmy in Benetton , or wherever your compulsion manifests itself . |
| 47 | We may wait two hours in the cold or dark , but when the show starts , it 's a moment of magic , ’ says Gertrude Holle-Suppa , 44 , a veteran of 20 years on the circuit . |
| 48 | There 's a moment when he looks away from the camera and down at the floor and softly says , ‘ Nobody 's young any more … |
| 49 | I just always think that that 's a moment when you think about — sort of your whole life has gone before you and I just wonder if you … |
| 50 | There 's a moment before the traffic and travel news now for me to remind you that erm if you 're the chairman or the secretary or whatever it happens to be of a particular group whether it be erm the local amateur dramatics society or er a North Yorkshire charity and you 'd like the opportunity to have some prime time publicity for what you 're doing , particularly in the run-up to the Christmas period |
| 51 | One does n't need to compare and contrast — It 's a moment one can be justly proud of . |
| 52 | There 's a moment when you decide to find someone . |
| 53 | In Act v , Scene v , of Jonson 's Volpone Mosca enters dressed as a gentleman ; it is a moment which might be seen to mark the arrival of the urban impostor , he or she who knows that mimicry and impersonation possess the potential not just to deceive and usurp , but also to subvert social differentiation and identity itself : |
| 54 | For some this is a moment of disappointment in which the real , the true , and the authentic are surrendered to , or contaminated by , the factitious and the contrived . |
| 55 | There is a moment here when Fred Pearson 's Shotover ( looking like a raffish , siren-suited version of Shaw himself ) says of his daughter , Lady Utterword , that she is afraid that she has no heart to break : at which point Jennie Stoller 's stately , voluptuous Ariadne throws himself at his feet with a wrenching poignancy . |
| 56 | A crash is a moment of panic when events are out of control and outlandish predictions become thinkable . |
| 57 | You can not abandon Oreste thus — come , it is a moment of despondency that is all , say it is . ’ |
| 58 | There is a moment of confusion while one elder fumbles to put his cakestand of individual cups back on the tier . |
| 59 | Schools tend to abandon reading guidance too soon , on the assumption that there is a moment when most pupils can read . |
| 60 | They say — the records say , that twilight is a moment equal only to pre-dawn in its tenuous hold on life . |