Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It hit it hit Ian Stringfellow last week and caused Nicky Platten now to pull out at the last minute last night . |
| 4 | Nor has the Department decided whether it is going to contribute towards the considerable capital cost of new computers , causing doctors to put off to the last minute a decision on which system to choose . |
| 5 | I will concentrate upon two of the more difficult threads in the pattern I attempted to draw out in the last chapter , and will try to develop them further in a more philosophically coherent way . |
| 6 | It would have been customary to allow the animal its own head , and to hold on to the last truck , or hitch a lift by hanging onto the end . |
| 7 | Generals , officers , non-commissioned officers , and men fought shoulder to shoulder down to the last shot . |
| 8 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | He almost missed the turning off the taxiway to the runway and had to brake hard at the last minute . |
| 11 | Yes well it 's possible that er Alan may see a way to using that but he is quite ni , I mean he he 's got no doubts he wants to come to me he 's in a divorce at the moment and the moment that the final papers are signed , he 's got to get out of the house he has to stay there till the last minute and then the moment that the papers are signed , he must go . |
| 12 | But the task of clearing hundreds of tips was too much for them to take on at the last minute . |
| 13 | And that things would tend to drag on to the last minute and then they would start and then it would it go forward . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | but I said well at least you 've got it all done , you do n't have to rush around at the last minute . |