Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The controversy came to a head this weekend in the annual Town versus Gown match in Oxford , when Jodi Evans was told at the last minute that she could n't play in the men 's game . |
| 32 | It was agreed at the last meeting of the Parish Council to endorse this request . |
| 33 | EXACTLY a fortnight after his unscheduled South Bank recital debut , when he was invited at the last minute to take over from the indisposed Krystian Zimerman , the young Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner was back at the Festival Hall to replace the temperamental Martha Argerich in a Mozart concerto with the Philharmonia and conductor Claus Peter Flor . |
| 34 | It was just a very low part , there was a little shopping area just round there at the time er , a butcher 's shop and a greengrocer 's shop and a Post Office , Street was the Post Office on the corner , and then Street and Road which lead down into , Lane and just round oh just round there you see , but I was born at the last house in the Street almost at the bottom of Street . |
| 35 | A planned NLD rally to mark Martyrs ' Day on July 19 ( commemorating the 1947 assassination of Suu Kyi 's father , Aung San — the country 's independence hero ) was abandoned at the last moment . |
| 36 | A coalition to buy a 51 per cent share of Koch Industries was trumped at the last moment when Charles approached the Marshall family , four per cent stakeholders , with an offer too good to reject . |
| 37 | The preliminary list which was compiled at the last sub-stage must be developed . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | But the project was scrapped at the last minute . |
| 40 | I think what we will do , erm certainly a lot of concern was expressed at the last meeting that this er forum should should die er but I do n't think it will I think it is very simple , to set aside one meeting a year , devote it to cycles and invite the same people who have coming from the party . |
| 41 | This sense of his irreplaceability was reinforced at the last moment by the dramatic and threatening events of the Cuban Missile Crisis , which began just six days before the French voters went to the polls . |
| 42 | . We have actually erm got a number of leaflets and brochures on play equipment but erm as was mentioned at the last meeting I was going to get together with David and the clerk to discuss future plans for play equipment but we have n't actually had a meeting yet cos we 're still getting information from various reps and playground equipment companies and erm we 'll leave that item for now . |
| 43 | The remit with regard to the er one day seminar , it was suggested at the last meeting er that it would be useful if the activists of the free union actually got together held a one day seminar or training course whatever terminology you like to put on it er to actually educate ourselves on how we should be conducting the campaign basically . |