Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at the last [noun sg] " 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 Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget .
3 It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky …
4 It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky …
5 In that election the candidate dropped out at the last minute and the only man who could be found to replace him was living in Zambia .
6 Graham Fowler made it a double when he teamed up at the last minute with Chris Schaefer from Tennis World and in see-saw men 's double final the Tennis World pair of Ben O'Connor and Peter Ford .
7 We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word .
8 Mrs McIntosh , she knew , had had a young man who pulled out at the last minute ; she might take him in .
9 In the event Lin and Chiang pulled out at the last moment , prompting speculation that Lee had made a deal with the conservatives over the reform programme or over Cabinet posts .
10 He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill .
11 She nearly dropped the mug but her brain took over at the last instant .
12 Boss David McErlain blames poor summer business and a vital sell-off deal that fell through at the last minute for this latest crisis .
13 The interview fell through at the last minute
14 But it all fell through at the last moment .
15 Elizabeth , knowing her mother was a bad sailor , cried off at the last moment , claiming she was tired — she was surprised at the laughter that raised — and as she expected , her mother took the chance to stay behind with her .
16 Mr Clark , 64 , who stood down at the last election , had assured him that he had not advised companies to conceal military use when preparing export licence applications .
17 Programme assistant Ian Edgar stood in at the last minute .
18 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 ) .
19 But , just as at Lani 's , I backed out at the last minute .
20 I thought he must have stood me up … backed out at the last minute
21 I expect he jumped out at the last minute .
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