1.   Balvinder Singh dropped me outside during a brief pause in the rain.

2.   There was a brief pause before he replied.

3.   There was a brief pause, then the caller tried again.

4.   There was a brief pause in the conversation.

5.   At last, when there was a brief pause, Woodruffe cleared his throat.

6.   There was a brief pause before Cathy replied.

7.   Then she tensed as, after a brief pause, he continued.

8.   A brief pause.

9.   A typist working on a manual machine uses the entire upper body, from the shoulders down, with a brief pause when the typist returns the carriage.