Example sentences of "at the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic recipe is a reduction of white wine and brown fond de veau lié with a julienne of gherkins and mustard stirred in at the last moment . |
| 2 | Still , he 's a married man , and his wife is in her seventh month , from what I hear : that 's why she had to send her apologies at the last moment … |
| 3 | Begin what seems to be a front kick , then change it at the last moment into a high roundhouse kick . |
| 4 | Blenching at the last few miles , shivering as sweat and dew ran down their backs , they turned into Donald Gillies 's yard at Camserney sawmill . |
| 5 | Most nights , at some point , he thought about phoning Amanda but he always managed , at the last moment , to replace the receiver before her answerphone answered . |
| 6 | ‘ The President of the World , ’ he said , ‘ spoke with great feeling at the last meeting of the Council . |
| 7 | As we go to press , there has been no satisfactory explanation as to the withdrawal of the number one seed Monica Seles from the Wimbledon Women 's Singles at the last moment . |
| 8 | Bratfisch attempts to entertain the doomed couple at the last meeting before their death and his sorrow as he comes to the graveside of the murdered . |
| 9 | But at the last minute , apparently under the immediate pressure of writing the magazine version of the novel , Dostoevsky realised that ‘ FACTUAL ’ is precisely what Kirillov 's role must not , in essence and impact , be . |
| 10 | Six Welsh officials and 10 players made the trip , many changing their mind at the last minute . |
| 11 | Michael Russell , the party 's vice-convener for publicity , accused Labour of selling out on all the promises it made to Scottish voters at the last election . |
| 12 | First , he has enormous debts totalling $7.9bn at the last year end , which are an obvious burden in a period of rising interest rates , even higher in Australia than the UK . |
| 13 | Mr Janman clashed at the Monday Club meeting with fellow Tory Mike Truman , who contested Ealing Southall for the party at the last election . |
| 14 | But as one parent said at the last gathering : ‘ Why do we all have to be so matey ? ’ |
| 15 | The album of music for the film Mike 's Murder was left looking limp after John Barry had been hired , at the last minute , to replace sizeable parts of Jackson 's score on the actual soundtrack . |
| 16 | Following her airlift to the United States with 40 other coup survivors and relatives , Edela de Giroldi said her husband was betrayed by fellow officers who deserted the coup plotters at the last minute . |
| 17 | A HOME OFFICE minister yesterday intervened at the last minute to delay a Kurdish refugee being flown back to Turkey . |
| 18 | Hamnett and Rosen became so close so quickly that May 's magazine was scrapped at the last minute in favour of a version reworked by Rosen . |
| 19 | Then they were a single out away from going one game up in Dodger Stadium — only for Kirk Gibson to turn the Series on its head with a home run at the last moment . |
| 20 | He conceded the hole and although he won the 35th two fours at the last saw Rafferty home . |
| 21 | You can minimise disappointment by calling the airline ( toll-free ) to check availability , and by being ready to switch at the last moment to a different , less popular destination . |
| 22 | A voice from the front of the column shouted , ‘ Piper , at Achnacarry and in England you wake us up with your bagpipes ; here in France we wake you up with a hot dinner at the last minute . ’ |
| 23 | One of the few British medals at the last Olympics was in the Star two-man keelboat class , and our line-up for the 1992 Games in Barcelona is looking very strong in many of the ten different classes . |
| 24 | Over such key issues as the European Common Market he had followed a prudent , unadventurous course , only moving to endorse membership at the last moment when political circumstances seemed so to dictate . |
| 25 | But the committee was hopelessly divided on what it meant by Christian hope — whether it was hope for peace and perfection in this world , or hope for a future life , or hope only of forgiveness at the last . |
| 26 | Taping rehearsals also reduces the likelihood of arguments about who played what at the last rehearsal . |
| 27 | The Chicago discussions were attended by fifty-one countries , many of which were still under German or Japanese occupation , so the proceedings were dominated by the USA , Britain , and the Commonwealth ( the USSR backed out at the last minute ) . |
| 28 | It had a very ill-fated start in that some of the original ideas of establishing it as an independent agency with a trading fund were thwarted at the last moment . |
| 29 | However , they have not been briefed that in this case the drop zone will be changed at the last minute . |
| 30 | It has now become a challenge to find new varieties of herb — at the last count there were just over 130 . |