Example sentences of "a moment i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment I felt an instinctive resentment , but remembering that it contained things ‘ for me ’ , I picked it up . |
| 2 | There was a gaudy shrine , and for a moment I felt we had entered the den of a fortune-teller . |
| 3 | For a moment I felt better , then my face chanced to come alongside the face of a three-foot-high king in a crown — I 'd been pushing down hard on the bishop 's corpse memory , now he reared up again … |
| 4 | For a moment I felt hopeful , since she had begun to smile and was moving closer to me . |
| 5 | She looked alarmed , and even though I knew the significance of this rite , because Nour had told me , for a moment I shared her confusion , her small anxiety at the thought of the violence of that long-past nuptial night . |
| 6 | After a moment I said , ‘ How 's your own work coming ? ’ |
| 7 | Lili looked at her squarely , and for a moment I entertained a mad hope that she would deny this , would announce that my engagement was a travesty and a cruelty , would say that she was going to take me away and teach me how to dress or to dance . |
| 8 | After a moment I heard the music again . |
| 9 | For a moment I heard its footsteps in something between a walk and a run , then it was gone . |
| 10 | For a moment I toyed with the idea of getting back to the ship , lifting off and going a comfortingly long way away . |
| 11 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , you are on the big side and for a moment I had this vision of you … ’ |
| 13 | For a moment I had a ridiculous sense of anti-climax . |
| 14 | He was so loving and in a moment I had bared my few troubles , and felt it almost criminal to worry him with one 's little difficulties . |
| 15 | That was no jackdaw 's call — although for just a moment I had taken it to be . |
| 16 | For a moment I expected a knuckle-rapping response , but after a brief hesitation , he said , ‘ My verse was obscure because I was obscure to myself . |
| 17 | For a moment I knew genuine fear and then , as it came into the light , I saw a young woman , quite small and wearing a black beret and soaked raincoat . |
| 18 | For a moment I looked away , and when I looked back he was gone . |
| 19 | For a moment I thought he had come across the bottle of wine given to me by the couple at Benouville bridge café . |
| 20 | Forget it , I said , For a moment I thought he was going to tell me to sling my hook . |
| 21 | For a moment I thought of getting on my joke transport and heading back to the East Oxford slums where I belonged . |
| 22 | For a moment I thought she had passed out . |
| 23 | Williams said : ‘ For a moment I thought the header was going over . |
| 24 | For a moment I thought I had been mistaken , and that perhaps I had left the switch on after the light failed , but no , I was sure I had switched off . |
| 25 | For a moment I thought I had gone too far . |
| 26 | For a moment I thought of driving out to the Jackson house , and beating out of the lawyer whatever information he had . |
| 27 | For a moment I thought it was Grandpa Tiao . ’ |
| 28 | For a moment I thought — no , I do n't know you , do I ? |
| 29 | For a moment I thought he was joking . |
| 30 | For a moment I thought she was going to faint . |