Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the last moment " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 A catapult lives with you until the last moment ; it stays tensed in your hands , breathing with you , moving with you , ready to leap , ready to sing and jerk , and leaving you in that dramatic pose , arms and hands outstretched while you wait for the dark curve of the ball in its flight to find its target , that delicious thud .
3 At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment .
4 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 .
5 She was about to say so , in no uncertain terms , but stopped herself at the last moment .
6 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 .
7 Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 I ca n't understand why they left it till the last moment ?
11 Begin what seems to be a front kick , then change it at the last moment into a high roundhouse kick .
12 She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod .
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