Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Carrie thought she caught a moment of panic in Annie 's eyes and she held up her hands to reassure her . |
| 5 | I mentioned a moment ago Mr Graham , the valet-butler to Sir James Chambers . |
| 6 | I mentioned a moment ago that we seek er total choice and total flexibility in the utopian open systems world . |
| 7 | These funds are only one element of the package of extra resources for students which I mentioned a moment ago . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'm as much in line for the title as the rabbit you inferred a moment ago I 'd be unable to support . |
| 10 | The crying stopped a moment . |
| 11 | Tallis called , and as if it had understood its name the Green Jack stopped a moment , stared sadly at the woman with the horse . |
| 12 | Although she snatched a moment whenever she could to telephone her much missed family , ‘ you could feel her disappointments , her lack of freedom . |
| 13 | Gosse knelt a moment longer . |
| 14 | Can you refer me to the part of the key diagram which shows the scheme for York to which you referred a moment ago ? |
| 15 | You sound like a distracted mother of ten , ’ laughed Susan , and added a moment later : ‘ Poor Breeze , it 's very hard on you , having all these burdens thrust on your shoulders . |
| 16 | And indeed when she reached the parish church she received a moment of instant gratification at the sight of her dear friend Lizzie Braithwaite looking far from her best in a regal but positively strident magenta . |
| 17 | Necessarily some favourites have been left out of the selection and among them are the two larger than life , cast stone sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck — the ‘ Kneeling woman ’ of 1911 and the ‘ Standing youth ’ of 1913 ( two of the museum 's earliest acquisitions , by the way ) — which have always within living memory afforded a moment of tenuous serenity in the same room with Kokoschka 's simmering double portrait of the Tietzes and Max Beckmann 's horrific ‘ Departure ’ . |
| 18 | When he had gone out , Ratagan lingered a moment . |
| 19 | But then , and quite different from such pleasures , and like a voice from far more distant regions , there came a moment when I idly turned the pages of the book and found the unrhymed translation of Tegner 's Drapa and read : |
| 20 | Then came a moment that electrified the congregation . |
| 21 | Dalgliesh wondered why it was that , when walking towards the sea , there came a moment when its roar suddenly increased as if a menace , quiescent and benign , had suddenly realized and gathered up its power . |
| 22 | And then came a moment when I was aware that its personal life was dissolving , and I could somehow perceive that a greater life , a kind of group ‘ bird soul ’ was taking over , for want of a better phrase . |
| 23 | There came a moment in it 's experience when it realized it was where it should n't be ! |
| 24 | There had been no grace but before they ate Julia noticed a moment 's silence had descended . |
| 25 | He allowed a moment to pass . |
| 26 | Two men , as they realized a moment later , when they heard the sound of voices . |
| 27 | I argued a moment ago that if the student is to enter into his or her own work , and is to be committed to it , he or she simply has to be given the intellectual space — to a degree — to follow his or her own inclinations . |
| 28 | He rode a moment , and then dived into the shifting , opaque water , which ran away from him in rays , like jewels flashing , opals you might call them , emeralds , lapis , rubies , sapphires , as Van Gogh had said of the stars reflected in that same sea in June 1888 . |
| 29 | He stood silent , stilled a moment . |
| 30 | ‘ Mr Damian ! ’ she announced a moment later . |