Example sentences of "[verb] away [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 3 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 4 | The flight from Bahrain , with 263 people on board , veered away at the last moment , skimmed just 80ft above rush-hour traffic and narrowly missed another hotel before the landing was aborted . |
| 5 | I should say that I , I came away from the last meeting with an enormous list of things to do , and I have n't managed to do them all , but they 'll emerge as we go through , erm , developments Perth , Perth if inter interrupt me |
| 6 | You seem to specialise in these narrow victories ; you went away in the last round , up to Greenwich and also had a narrow one there . |
| 7 | Ahead children lay like bundles of clothing on the edge of the road , only rolling away at the last hoot . |
| 8 | There have been those burrowing away for the last year seeking a more sinister reasons . |
| 9 | His scams and cons , however , are not always abortive and the profit he makes is not always snatched away at the last minute . |
| 10 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |