Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the last [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
| 2 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
| 3 | A young man called Tepilit ole paramat , the laibon 's brother , tried at the last minute to withdraw one of his cattle from the sale . |
| 4 | EC trade analysts said last night that M Delors was probably happy to raise the temperature of the dispute , to minimise expectations for his Washington mission , which until yesterday was being seen as the last chance to save the five-year round of Gatt talks . |
| 5 | Tomorrow 's meeting is seen as the last opportunity to decide on the bill which would allow redevelopment to commence in 1991 . |
| 6 | We can now build on the techniques presented in the last section to examine two contentious issues in investment ( and corporate ) finance . |
| 7 | There is a great temptation to overfeed in the last month to ensure calf growth and nutrition . |
| 8 | Huge buttresses built in the last century to protect St Mary 's Church now stand on the edge of the shore . |
| 9 | When the alternative seemed to be squabbles and point-scoring , many of these people decided at the last minute to give John Major the benefit of the doubt . |
| 10 | Instead of flying straight to the United States , the Shah had decided at the last minute to accept an invitation from Anwar Sadat of Egypt to pause briefly in Aswan . |
| 11 | In that case , it was logical to assume that Guy Sterne had decided at the last minute to avail himself of his unexpectedly empty villa for an impromptu break in the sun . |
| 12 | A HOME OFFICE minister yesterday intervened at the last minute to delay a Kurdish refugee being flown back to Turkey . |
| 13 | Then she turned again and started to walk away , waiting for the last stone to strike her . |
| 14 | As we sat waiting for the last half-hour to grind away , the young Sheikh lifted the phone and telephoned his grandmother — his mother 's mother , not Sheikha Grandmother , who was still on her visit to her daughter . |
| 15 | As I write , he nods down at me from the wall beside my desk ; shining brass-reel in place , cast and flies still ready for action , waiting for the last trumpet to sound . |
| 16 | So typical , is n't it , that when you go to see plays , you always like , dashing to the last minute to try and get tickets and been on for like , two months . |
| 17 | Phil took him at his word and charged up to the buoy , turning at the last minute to propel the buoy in the air with our wash while the reporter hung on for dear life . |
| 18 | EXACTLY a fortnight after his unscheduled South Bank recital debut , when he was invited at the last minute to take over from the indisposed Krystian Zimerman , the young Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner was back at the Festival Hall to replace the temperamental Martha Argerich in a Mozart concerto with the Philharmonia and conductor Claus Peter Flor . |
| 19 | Following this was the rodeo World Championships on the Bitches which decided at the last minute to include a ladies ' competition . |
| 20 | He was supposed to deliver a bull to the district officer , it was about three weeks ago , and he decided at the last moment to replace the bull with another one . |
| 21 | My husband was going out to Qatar , that pear drop of moonscape pitted with rich oases and edged with ancient trading posts , the Emirate that had refused at the last moment to join Sheikh Zayed 's dream of unity . |
| 22 | It tells of the last penguin to leave the North Pole , left behind because he is afraid of swimming . |
| 23 | It came to Kanchelskis waist high and the Ukranian , who struggled in the last month to retain his place , scored with a perfect volley . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's the last thing Portadown needs because we 've tried in the last year to regenerate the town . ’ |
| 25 | Here a second fleet of transports would be waiting with another 20,000 men , who would assemble and embark at the last moment to secure the maximum surprise . |
| 26 | We divide throughout by the last element to obtain as our new starting column unc then the iterations , using ( 3 ) at each step , begin unc We postmultiply A ( ignoring its top row ) by the column ( 4 ) to get the column of three numbers on the right ; divide by the last element to get the bottom three elements in the next column , and find the top element from ( 3 ) . |
| 27 | However , they agreed at the last moment to participate . |
| 28 | According to some reports Li 's speech had been revised at the last moment to bring it in line with the current Dengist campaign . |
| 29 | If the video is to end with music though , you should arrange for the last note to come at the end of the last shot . |
| 30 | It is not impossible for a No answer in the last lozenge to result in the project going back to square one . |