Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] at the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHAT do you do when the date and time of your official opening has been set , the invitations sent out and your guest of honour has to drop out at the last minute due to matters of national importance ? |
| 2 | Lorton wondered if he 'd chickened out at the last moment . |
| 3 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
| 4 | BA is keeping its distance from attempts by Stephen Wolf and Jay Pritzker to revive the bidding consortium , but there are still hopes in the US that it could be persuaded to step in at the last minute to add weight to a new bid . |
| 5 | I 've an awful feeling we should have gone right at the last junction . |
| 6 | but I said well at least you 've got it all done , you do n't have to rush around at the last minute . |
| 7 | know is really , and it 's in the file , if they do pay up at the last we 've just got ta get |
| 8 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 9 | He almost missed the turning off the taxiway to the runway and had to brake hard at the last minute . |
| 10 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |
| 11 | It dominates the town from any direction , looking across the river and seeming to peer cautiously at the last limb of the Jura mountains in the distance , a reminder of the days when an enemy might appear in the valley below . |