Example sentences of "[pron] at the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advantages : An agency can usually find you someone at the last minute . |
| 2 | That meant he carried on and when someone at the last moment dropped out , he dropped in ; it was more or less par for the course that , by the end of 1944 , a very large number of Pathfinders had notched up 70 or more sorties . |
| 3 | DEC president Bob Palmer , who was supposed to grace this week 's gathering with his presence — see front page — absented himself at the last minute . |
| 4 | But Jean Marie Le Pen 's following , which at the last elections reached 27 per cent in some regions , can not simply be explained by his charisma . |
| 5 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 6 | One favourite Victorian theme was that of the dying gipsy child , who at the last hour was found by Christian children and so found salvation . |
| 7 | The heroine has escaped and alerted the police , who at the last minute burst in and save our hero from a fate worse than death . |
| 8 | Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment . |
| 9 | This belief , though not taught in the Old Testament , was widely held in the Jewish constituency among whom Paul worked : it is widely believed today that if only you try hard and do your best , God will accept you at the last . |
| 10 | My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur . |
| 11 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
| 12 | They ca n't gazump you at the last minute cos it makes |
| 13 | He made a birdie at the next , but just missed one at the last and lost by a shot . |
| 14 | She was about to say so , in no uncertain terms , but stopped herself at the last moment . |
| 15 | Dana had not appeared for the promised fitting or for the rehearsal , excusing herself at the last minute because Roman had wanted her for alterations to one of the outfits she was to wear . |
| 16 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 17 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 18 | This is strongly implied in John chapter 6 where the Spirit is brought closely into relation with ‘ eating his body and drinking his blood ’ and so being confident of dwelling in Christ , being fed by him , and being raised up by him at the last day ( 6:54,56,63 ) ; just as he is in chapter 3:3–8 in connection with the new birth . |
| 19 | He was thinking of Madra pouring beer for him at the last one . |
| 20 | Claudine had probably dropped that on him at the last minute . |
| 21 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 22 | Miss Coldharbour had recruited her at the last moment to help serve supper for Canon Wheeler 's guests who included the Bishop and the Earl of Medewich and Markham . |
| 23 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 24 | Begin what seems to be a front kick , then change it at the last moment into a high roundhouse kick . |
| 25 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 26 | What if I decide against it at the last minute ? |
| 27 | The examination he looks upon as completely separate ; he will attend to it at the last possible moment . |
| 28 | It currently has a service within the Fire Service wh which costs a certain amount and we ca n't presume and I would , I suspect that Councillor is is actually trying to do is to get in by the back door for cut that we will then be forced to make the March March March Committee well I hope that members of this at this this this Committee would reject that er suggestion as it at the last meeting . |
| 29 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 30 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |