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1  I must retire to my room for a moment.
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2  I can produce the hand-bag at any moment.
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3  Pray allow me to detain you for a moment.
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4  From the moment I saw you I distrusted you.
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5  This is not the moment for German scepticism.
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6  He said he was anxious to speak to you privately for a moment.
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7  At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy.
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8  But I never dreamed for a moment of allowing that to stand in my way.
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9  They have moments of physical courage of which we women know absolutely nothing.
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10  She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment's solitude.
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11  I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
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12  But I'll run over the programme I've drawn out, if you will kindly come into the next room for a moment.
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13  The moment Algernon first mentioned to me that he had a friend called Ernest, I knew I was destined to love you.
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14  The moment you consent to my marriage with Gwendolen, I will most gladly allow your nephew to form an alliance with my ward.
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15  But of course, you will clearly understand that all communication between yourself and my daughter must cease immediately from this moment.
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16  In a moment of mental abstraction, for which I never can forgive myself, I deposited the manuscript in the basinette, and placed the baby in the hand-bag.
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