Example sentences of "the next moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 2 | ‘ Christ ! ’ she said , and the next moment , forgetful of her own safety , she had Maggie in her arms , shushing and soothing as she had never in her life done before . |
| 3 | But chided herself the next moment . |
| 4 | The next moment she jumped up , almost angrily , as though she had been trapped into a softness that she did not mean . |
| 5 | But she turned away without looking at him and the next moment Doyle had him by the arm and was hauling him upstairs . |
| 6 | The next moment she had her face under control , turning towards the door with a polite smile . |
| 7 | ‘ One moment we were all sitting outside the Art School discussing the latest models , and the next moment the boy had wandered off by himself . |
| 8 | The next moment he let out a cry , of disbelief and joy , similar to hers . |
| 9 | The next moment a head showed above water a yard or two from the boat . |
| 10 | They spend so much time immersed in unglamorous stuff — transient and trivial details that vanish and reappear to be done again the next moment . |
| 11 | The next moment she was a shocked spectator , seeing them both as something in a theatre , perhaps ballet dancers pretending to be puppets . |
| 12 | The tension is resolved , the impasse broken , by pushing on , to the next moment , the next story or reflection . |
| 13 | This she did , however , rather rapidly and the next moment I found she had overtaken me and was standing before me , effectively barring my way . |
| 14 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 15 | Sometimes they will walk fast , even running from place to place , and then they will skip or hop , and the next moment they will be walking quite slowly ( much to their mothers ' annoyance ) . |
| 16 | The conventions of impermanence , where the cat breaks all its teeth or has all its hair burned off or is squashed flat and , the next moment , becomes whole again , seem to be peculiar to the comic strip and the animated cartoon . |
| 17 | In the next moment after Peter has been so firmly put right by Jesus , he has an experience that he is never to forget . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , you 're going to the bottom , you disgusting old bag , ’ screamed Perdita , and the next moment she had butted Enid in the small of a very large back right into the swimming-pool . |
| 19 | The next moment something heavy came clattering down the stairs . |
| 20 | The next moment the two of them were running down the drive together and then out on to the road , and Matilda was ahead , pulling Miss Honey after her by her wrist , and it was a wild and wonderful dash they made along the country lane and through the village to the house where Matilda 's parents lived . |
| 21 | The next moment , Little Billy had opened the window and was climbing out . |
| 22 | The next moment she was running up his outstretched legs , then flapping up his sweater and finally she was sitting inelegantly on his head . |
| 23 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 24 | A grapeshot , the next moment , hit another man on the shoulder , and he was carried below . |
| 25 | One minute Patsy 's hands had been by his side , the next moment Mike 's nose was split and the blood was gushing down his face and flooding the back of his throat . |
| 26 | But when , in the next moment , the bible is read , we shall again hear talk of ‘ Father ’ and ‘ Son ’ . |
| 27 | He frowned at this suspected future injustice , but the next moment he remembered the siege and the fact that there was every chance that he would not live to suffer the humiliations of old age , and his thoughts promptly took a different line : " After so many hardships , how sad to be deprived of the tranquil evening of one 's life ! " |
| 28 | The next moment all the rabbits leapt up in panic . |
| 29 | The next moment a door was flung violently open . |
| 30 | The next moment he was climbing from the bed , the ferocity of his passion still evident on him . |