Example sentences of "moment [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But at the moment nothing has been firmed up . |
| 2 | So for the moment nothing could be done beyond issuing a warning . |
| 3 | For a moment nothing happens . |
| 4 | It 's the moment everyone 's been waiting for . |
| 5 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs yeah Shrimp , you got good English ! |
| 6 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs . |
| 7 | One moment I was revelling in the astonishment of being alive , and the next — I was lying flat on my face , with what felt like a very large hole in the right side of my skull … |
| 8 | Anyway the moment I trod the stage I felt completely at home . |
| 9 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 10 | Nothing has gone right on that side from the moment I began . |
| 11 | ‘ From the moment I picked up this book to the moment I put it down , ’ wrote GM , ‘ I could n't stop laughing . |
| 12 | ‘ From the moment I picked up this book to the moment I put it down , ’ wrote GM , ‘ I could n't stop laughing . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew it the moment I saw it last Sunday . |
| 14 | Although , at that moment I could have done with a little less myself . |
| 15 | ‘ Inspector , until this moment I have always felt that the benefit of a classical education was over-rated . ’ |
| 16 | Also — and I 'm quite prepared to admit this — because of all the problems I was having trying to find work , just at that moment I really did n't want the bother of hunting for a new home . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , you are on the big side and for a moment I had this vision of you … ’ |
| 18 | To date I have found both tools perfectly safe , used with care , and though there are rare occasions when I might choose the SuperCut , for the moment I 'll be sticking with the real thing , which remains in a class of its own . |
| 19 | I hoped the dogs would be in the garden but the moment I stepped inside I was surrounded by five of the massive dogs . |
| 20 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 21 | The moment I heard there were rumours that the PLO is willing to be more moderate , that 's when I went on the first plane and went to Tunis . |
| 22 | For a moment I thought he had come across the bottle of wine given to me by the couple at Benouville bridge café . |
| 23 | At the moment I am too hungry to feel sorry for the pig . |
| 24 | So lost was I in the film that for an awful moment I too was about to spawn one of the dreadful aliens . |
| 25 | The principal moment I 'm left with is a shot of two smoky essences in bottles , the sound of dry autumn leaves rustling through a chill night wind , and the voices of Cecil Kellaway and Veronica Lake , father and daughter , conversing from their adjacent bottles . |
| 26 | But this is to anticipate the argument ; for the moment I want only to observe that a conception of the self as socially and/or metaphysically constituted produces one idea of transgression , and that of the self as ideally ( if not actually ) unified and autonomous , quite another . |
| 27 | Forget it , I said , For a moment I thought he was going to tell me to sling my hook . |
| 28 | For the moment I am concentrating mostly on the fact that I am riding under the Arctic sky , a very black sky , heavily overcast , being pulled across the ice by a team of dogs . |
| 29 | I 'd know where I lived if I saw it , but just at the moment I ca n't remember the name of the street it 's in , and the policeman would n't know if I do n't have the address . |
| 30 | ‘ At the moment I can say I wanted to come here and not to America , ’ she smiled . |