Example sentences of "[noun] at the [num ord] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a spectator sport where young men would show their courage by standing in the path of the maddened bull and then leaping side at the last moment . |
| 2 | The problematic four Duetti ( two prelude and fugue pairs ) were added as an afterthought at the last moment . |
| 3 | Once a boy was almost carted away but the Headmaster changed his mind at the last moment . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , she changed her mind at the last moment . |
| 5 | I mean , I lashed out in a panic at the last moment . |
| 6 | Oddly enough , I would have thought it was the decision of the Financial Times to support Labour which swung many people behind the Conservatives at the last moment . |
| 7 | His personal score stood at seven which made him an ace and then came that morning of ferocious winds and driving snow when he 'd come in at four hundred feet , flying blind , lost his engine at the last moment and crash-landed . |
| 8 | The organising committee took four hours to announce the seedings and draw order , much of the time being taken up trying to persuade West Germany , who had assumed they were going to Verona , to switch to Milan at the last moment . |
| 9 | The organising committee took four hours to announce the seedings and draw order , much of the time being taken up trying to persuade West Germany , who had assumed they were going to Verona , to switch to Milan at the last moment . |
| 10 | Over such key issues as the European Common Market he had followed a prudent , unadventurous course , only moving to endorse membership at the last moment when political circumstances seemed so to dictate . |
| 11 | Your mother was a silly greedy girl — a gold-digger who wanted to marry above her station , but took fright at the last moment , without caring what hurt she bestowed . |
| 12 | It 's like that wire-mesh barrier thing — the one he told me about — the one that stops boats at the last moment from going over the weir . |
| 13 | International javelin thrower Nigel Bevan had to withdraw from the championships at the last moment with a foot injury sustained in training at the end of last week . |
| 14 | Having acknowledged that , Cabinet does meet less frequently , it discusses fewer formal papers , it is presented with more virtual faits accomplis at the last moment , and she does prefer to work in ad hoc groups — many of the most important ones remaining outside the Cabinet-committee structure . |
| 15 | You know we 're the ones accused of doing these things at the last moment . |
| 16 | Last year was erm , an additional twenty thousand pounds at the last moment , chickenfeed for the big committees , that 's the annoying thing , but what particularly annoys me , and I have to say this , I 'll express it is the knowledge that what can be a phenomenal deprivation to this Committee , goes very , very , very little towards solving the major problems that this county faces , it does n't have a tremendous impact . |
| 17 | As we go to press , there has been no satisfactory explanation as to the withdrawal of the number one seed Monica Seles from the Wimbledon Women 's Singles at the last moment . |
| 18 | ‘ We found the building we wanted but when the owner found out it was us he upped the price at the last moment . |
| 19 | Still , he 's a married man , and his wife is in her seventh month , from what I hear : that 's why she had to send her apologies at the last moment … |
| 20 | The point should also be made that practitioners facing potential limitation problems in claims valued at less than £50,000 can no longer employ the expedient of issuing a writ at the last moment before the limitation period expires . |
| 21 | Murgatroyd wanted to change the basis of the launch at the last moment : he had the idea of claiming that he had found instructions for making the snacks in a recipe book compiled by his great-grandmother . |
| 22 | He prepares to do so , and only when it is clear that he will obey the divine command does God at the last moment spare his son and tell him to kill a sheep instead . |
| 23 | Plans for an historic ban on mining in the Antarctic were shattered by the US refusing to sign the treaty at the last moment . |
| 24 | Indonesia was elected to chair the NAM for the period from 1992 to 1995 , and it was announced on Sept. 22 that the Indonesian capital Jakarta would host the 10th summit of the movement 's heads of state in 1992 , Nicaragua having withdrawn its application at the last moment . |
| 25 | Are the Government to continue with the same policy or enact a U-turn at the last moment ? |
| 26 | It was even more frightening when we reached the cooler highlands , where at night people would huddle on the road for warmth , barely visible and apparently asleep , yet able to leap dexterously out of our path at the last moment . |
| 27 | You did a fresh lot at the last moment . ’ |
| 28 | Or will he be brave enough to take a dose of poison at the last moment ? |
| 29 | ‘ Or else the server would have to add poison at the last moment — surely very risky . |
| 30 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd , speaking on BBC 's The World This Weekend , said : ‘ On past form a great many members are looking to make up their minds at the last moment . |