Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at [det] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided at that moment that I 'd had enough . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ As I said , it 's up to you , ’ said this stupid young man , who could have done anything he liked to me — or so I felt at that moment — if only he had done it , and not talked about it first , trying to strike a bargain . |
| 3 | And , Francis was frank in the reasons for the substitution when he said : ‘ I felt at that moment something different was needed . |
| 4 | I never wanted my Mum so much in my life as I did at that moment . |
| 5 | He was as usual training his sights exclusively on the goal currently in view , in this case the unification of South Africa , the kindergarten campaign for which seemed at that moment to require a concession to Afrikaner racial prejudice . |
| 6 | Quickly , she put on her coat and hat , looking round fearfully as if she expected at any moment to feel Sikes ' heavy hand on her shoulder . |
| 7 | All at once , I was in a wild fury of rage : I saw , not Nonni , but all the foolish and ignorant people who seemed at this moment to be conspiring together against all the forces of right and reason to poison and destroy the world . |
| 8 | She knew at that moment that she wanted to injure every penis that ever came into her hand . |
| 9 | Sara did not care to be beholden to Matthew Preston for even one pupil , but she knew at this moment she could not afford to be choosey . |
| 10 | She looked at this moment more terrifying than ever before . |
| 11 | Maura had never dreamt that she could feel like she felt at this moment . |
| 12 | Had never felt the exquisite excitement that she felt at this moment . |
| 13 | How foolishly happy she had been earlier that evening , and how ridiculous she felt at this moment , all her dreams crushed and shattered around her slowly dragging feet . |
| 14 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
| 15 | At any other time she would have recognised the bitter note of personal experience in his voice , but all she wanted at that moment was to flee before her worst fears were realised . |
| 16 | Black and white cows grazed so picturesquely that one expected at any moment an eighteenth-century milkmaid to come prancing out from behind a white-blossomed bush with her three-legged wooden milking stool . |
| 17 | She could be pretty , she decided , if her hair were not so tightly scraped back from her face and if her eyes shone with eagerness , as they did at this moment . |
| 18 | He was leaving behind the other children , the only friends he had , and he realized at that moment how lonely he was in the world . |
| 19 | She could sense how his body moved towards her subtly ; how , with the utmost casualness , he strove at each moment to include her in all that was said . |
| 20 | When he had finished piling the boxes up , Charles looked once more round the room and his eyes lighted on the very thing he needed at that moment — a torch . |
| 21 | He decided at that moment to make a victim of her . |
| 22 | Strangely , he knew at this moment that he 'd miss this house as much as his mother would . |
| 23 | He felt at this moment as if he held Marcus upon a silken thread which he must use all his intelligence and all his courage to keep whole . |
| 24 | Had the house actually left the ground , he knew that he could n't have felt more strange than he did at this moment , or more afraid : there was someone here . |
| 25 | Dimly , in what seemed at that moment to have been another existence altogether , she remembered Jurgen and Horst arguing that there was actually something dynamic and hopeful about the forces of good and innocence being so demonstrably at risk from the satanic . |