Example sentences of "moment she " in BNC.

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1 For a moment she looked furiously at Donald , her teeth bared like a cat 's , then she shook her hair out , spattering Donald with bree and barley , and hauled him back into the dance .
2 For a moment she stood in the doorway , allowing her eyes to adjust to the gloomy interior .
3 The moment she encounters Romeo and senses somehow that her life has changed her movement becomes more purposeful .
4 When she 's got a moment she probably reads Bella , Best or Take a Break , and regularly buys the Daily Mail .
5 She had laughed then at the vivid imagination of the child , but now for a brief moment she saw the city as Maggie saw it , basking in the first rays of the sun and oblivious to the dangerous mist below that might suck it in before it could wake up and take wing against the now blue blue sky .
6 The moment she spoke to Rachel the die would be cast , and she would have to go along the road of sensible health planning and operations and anxieties and reality .
7 For one blinding moment she knew absolutely that Galileo should have died for his truth , and yet had also been right to retract because he had still not known one particle of the whole .
8 All her temptations had dissolved the moment she had heard Maggie say ,
9 And at the same moment she had the shattering thought that perhaps she had imagined the whole thing .
10 After a moment she realised that she would have to change ; there was no way she was going out to meet Hermione in her mother 's elderly and considerably over-large tracksuit .
11 She knew the offers would disappear again the very moment she tried to take them up .
12 But things went wrong right from the moment she landed in Britain .
13 And she says that at the moment she 's more interested in just having fun than dating .
14 An unfamiliar young woman entered the sauna and , the moment she walked through the door , began to order everyone about ; she made them all sit closer together , then picked up a pitcher and poured water on the stones .
15 But at the last moment she lost the desire to do so , because his face was not merely sad but forbidding , even hostile .
16 for a moment she was very quiet , staring over his head , and her throat moved as she swallowed hard .
17 The next moment she jumped up , almost angrily , as though she had been trapped into a softness that she did not mean .
18 The next moment she had her face under control , turning towards the door with a polite smile .
19 At every moment she expected the girl behind the desk to call her back : ‘ Hey , you ! ’ and question her right to be here .
20 For a moment she thought she had really seen this happening and that Simon had drowned .
21 The moment she saw Mungo , Mary Ann fussed and tut-tutted and made him have a bath .
22 Everyone said she must have struggled from her sick-bed the moment she realized that the aunt left in charge during her illness had sadly neglected her little boy .
23 Even just now , when for a moment she had not been able to remember what day it was , and when Faith Lavender had already been dead a week .
24 One moment she is here , the next she is thirty years or so ago , and then again , she is a young girl and can not remember who I am .
25 He should have sent the child to me from the moment she could feed herself , Roirbak thought , sure Ari had been contaminated and spoiled by the life she 'd led at Taler 's Bump .
26 For a moment she thought she knew him .
27 At the moment she is going along with their wishes , wearing what they want her to and keeping her hair shoulder-length , but she feels extremely frustrated and isolated , and ca n't wait to leave home .
28 Mrs Knelle gave a shudder , and in that moment she reminded me of a Karen Blixen figure in Kenya , who has stayed on after Mau Mau to make the best of life in a new Republic .
29 One moment she was directing Maria in the making of knead cakes , the next she was taken with a sensation of wishing to bear down , no pains preceding it , and had a struggle to get herself to bed and to have Ferdinando and the midwife sent for .
30 In another moment she saw Ferdinando waiting in Rome , standing on the doorstep , his arms open in welcome and a welcome most of all for Annunciata .
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