Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] at the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helynsar ran well in the later stages of her race at the last meeting when Treat Me Good scored and she may be worth following against a moderate lot in the Moira Novices Chase . |
| 2 | It was even more frightening when we reached the cooler highlands , where at night people would huddle on the road for warmth , barely visible and apparently asleep , yet able to leap dexterously out of our path at the last moment . |
| 3 | With a hopeless shrug of resignation she hurriedly put on a slim linen dress , which she had only thrown into her case at the last minute . |
| 4 | The bird jumps from its nest at the last minute and runs off making a special squeaking call . |
| 5 | Out of the contemporary turmoil of Hindu tradition Rabindranath Tagore wrote of the same mysterious sources of renewal : I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power — that the path before me was closed , that provisions were exhausted and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity . |
| 6 | But he did n't like to go against his grandmother who , in her grim fashion , had been kind to his dad at the last . |
| 7 | Her father , another member of the Parliamentary class of ‘ 64 , was NW Durham 's Labour MP until succeeded by his daughter at the last election . |
| 8 | His aunt and uncle promised to be witnesses , but were dissuaded by his mother at the last moment . |