Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the last moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | The promised job with the chain stores was cancelled at the last moment ‘ due to the Depression ’ , the standard excuse . |
| 2 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 3 | A planned trip by PLO chair Yassir Arafat to Syria in mid-October was cancelled at the last moment . |
| 4 | Charles had planned to take part in a private Mass with the Pope , but was forbidden at the last moment after strong protest to the government from the Church of England hierarchy . |
| 5 | A planned NLD rally to mark Martyrs ' Day on July 19 ( commemorating the 1947 assassination of Suu Kyi 's father , Aung San — the country 's independence hero ) was abandoned at the last moment . |
| 6 | A coalition to buy a 51 per cent share of Koch Industries was trumped at the last moment when Charles approached the Marshall family , four per cent stakeholders , with an offer too good to reject . |
| 7 | This building programme from W to E meant that the Gothic E end was retained until the last moment . |
| 8 | This sense of his irreplaceability was reinforced at the last moment by the dramatic and threatening events of the Cuban Missile Crisis , which began just six days before the French voters went to the polls . |