Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles had planned to take part in a private Mass with the Pope , but was forbidden at the last moment after strong protest to the government from the Church of England hierarchy . |
| 2 | Also encouraging has been the fact that a row with America over government procurement , which threatened to spill over into tit-for-tat sanctions , was averted at the last minute . |
| 3 | The deeds which followed that , an exhausted , courageous Crisp just caught at the last , would have stirred any potential horseman 's heart . |
| 4 | The first was that Stirling had promised his men that they would never be subjected to the indecisions of the Commando days when operation after operation was planned and then cancelled at the last minute . |
| 5 | Quite often operations could be cancelled at the last moment owing to worsening weather conditions , and this must have been a terrible let-down for them , after getting themselves keyed-up for yet another hectic night . |
| 6 | A HUGE open-air concert has been cancelled at the last minutes over cash wrangles . |
| 7 | The promised job with the chain stores was cancelled at the last moment ‘ due to the Depression ’ , the standard excuse . |
| 8 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 9 | If one wishes to interview a client , one has to give notice about a week in advance , and sometimes interviews are cancelled at the last minute on the diktat of whoever is running Brixton prison . |
| 10 | On Nov. 29 it was announced that Gorbachev would visit Moldavia on the following day to address the republic 's Supreme Soviet , but the visit was cancelled at the last minute , reportedly because Dnestr Russian and Gagauz deputies had announced that they would boycott the session . |
| 11 | Elections for both the Lok Sabha and the state Assembly had then been scheduled to coincide with the June 1991 general election but were cancelled at the last moment [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 12 | A planned trip by PLO chair Yassir Arafat to Syria in mid-October was cancelled at the last moment . |
| 13 | Hearing off : A disciplinary hearing involving a senior education officer who went missing during the summer was cancelled at the last minute yesterday . |
| 14 | A planned visit by the king to Timisoara on Christmas Eve was cancelled at the last minute because of restrictions imposed by the government . |
| 15 | Unfortunately the October meeting had to be cancelled at the last minute through lack of support . |
| 16 | and that er he was er cos er last week there was supposed to be one of these big like rave things on and it was cancelled at the last minute . |
| 17 | He died in the Pyrenees , quite young , of pneumonia , attended at the last by the officious H. G. Wells , who describes his mercy mission to the bedside of his friend in his autobiography . |
| 18 | In Mark and Luke , the betrayer is not named at the Last Supper itself . |
| 19 | But Koch 's vacillating views on his own afterguard line-up , seemingly decided at the last minute with minimal consultation among his senior crew , is bemusing observers . |
| 20 | When the alternative seemed to be squabbles and point-scoring , many of these people decided at the last minute to give John Major the benefit of the doubt . |
| 21 | To add to these impressions of an electorate in a constant state of flux there were other polls showing that many voters only decided at the last minute how to vote . |
| 22 | It was decided at the last cash crisis meeting to get rid of the grandstand and claim the insurance , only local radio jockey , Keith Labone , thought there might be some insurance fiddle on the go . |
| 23 | Instead of flying straight to the United States , the Shah had decided at the last minute to accept an invitation from Anwar Sadat of Egypt to pause briefly in Aswan . |
| 24 | In that case , it was logical to assume that Guy Sterne had decided at the last minute to avail himself of his unexpectedly empty villa for an impromptu break in the sun . |
| 25 | decided at the last minute last night to have the weekend off cos things were going alright . |
| 26 | Comdex organisers had an independent survey done at the last mammoth fall show and discovered that 35% of the attendees were interested in Unix . |
| 27 | The publication in April of Poems on Various Subjects , its preface written at the last moment in Cottle 's bookshop , was a genuine cause for satisfaction and received enthusiastic reviews . |
| 28 | Only Shotover , a Shavian figure seeking a ‘ mind ray ’ that will destroy his enemies , tries to unite wisdom and power ; and even he is revealed at the last as a rum-soaked old poseur . |
| 29 | Remarkably , they were saved at the last moment and rebuilt , now forming a group of pleasant dwellings . |
| 30 | Their daughter , Georgiana , is a pathetic creature , utterly crushed by the magnificence of her parents ; she falls an easy prey to the Lammles ' schemes to marry her off to Fledgeby , but is saved at the last moment by a change of heart on Mrs Lammle 's part . |