Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now , Charles , if you would calm down a moment and allow me to get a word in , I would be able to inform you that I have already negotiated just such a deal for you . ’ |
| 2 | Now , do sit down a moment — we can just fit another chair in here . ’ |
| 3 | The superb setting of the Playa del Sol Beach Club helps you to switch off the moment you arrive . |
| 4 | Your people will be switched off the moment the objective that you have set appears to be unobtainable . |
| 5 | Her voice trailed off a moment , then she took a deep breath . |
| 6 | ‘ Hang on a moment . |
| 7 | ‘ Just hang on a moment , ’ said Certes . |
| 8 | Hang on a moment . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Hang on a moment ! |
| 10 | But to Paula 's triumphant delight the suit was snapped up the moment it went back onto its hanger — a solicitor 's wife who had stopped for a coffee had fallen in love with it , even if the skirt did have to be taken up four full inches to make it fit her less-than-willow tall frame . |
| 11 | Or perhaps it was a booby-trapped cake and the whole thing would blow up the moment it was cut , taking Bruce Bogtrotter with it . |
| 12 | Always till now that had filled up the moment |
| 13 | I have noticed before when surfing that time seems to slow up the moment I realize I 'm going to get trashed by the next wave … ! |
| 14 | At that moment he would have given up every moment of his past and future freedom to have her at his side . |
| 15 | If you 've got a pot or tray of seedlings , prick them out the moment you can handle them — holding them by a seed leaf , never a crushable stem . |
| 16 | All these questions came tumbling out the moment she entered my room a couple of days later . |
| 17 | The occasional crank letter was invariably weeded out the moment it arrived at the sorting office at the Royal Family 's own Post Office within Buckingham Palace . |
| 18 | He 'd only agreed to go because Lily told him it was a musical and had walked out the moment Bernadette started sinking to her knees in the fields . |
| 19 | " Oh , Sir Dermot , you know I 'm Lally , " she laughed and helped out the moment with sly ease , loosening the way through Nicandra 's formal how-do-you-do 's . |
| 20 | Athelstan asked hastily , and wished he could have bitten his tongue out the moment he spoke . |
| 21 | The big lattice-patterned bed in Guy 's room brought back the moment when he 'd marched in on her unannounced that first night . |
| 22 | The political argument for conventionalism I set out a moment ago supposes that this kind of situation is inevitable , that no theory of adjudication can prevent it . |
| 23 | When he looked back a moment later , the dishevelled old tramp was walking after him . |
| 24 | Thomas went out , came back a moment later with an object draped in blue velvet which he positioned carefully on a low table . |
| 25 | Immediately she 'd sensed that this was wrong , that there was nothing for her in this office , and that she 'd be at risk if she stayed around a moment longer than was necessary . |