Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 2 | A HOME OFFICE minister yesterday intervened at the last minute to delay a Kurdish refugee being flown back to Turkey . |
| 3 | As we saw earlier the successful candidates are those who can muster a quota of votes , the same for all of them however great the disparity in the number of votes they respectively received at the first count . |
| 4 | Culley went straight for Elliott , then sidestepped at the last minute , almost a leap backwards . |
| 5 | Plan A almost fell at the first fence as Trippy and the rest of the squat seemed to have been having an end-of-season sale in Trippy 's medicine chest . |
| 6 | Looked at one house then looked at the next oh |
| 7 | These are usually concealed and then flashed at the last moment , giving the prospective predator the impression that it is approaching a much larger animal and one that is staring straight at it in a defiant manner . |
| 8 | Both dogs were in action at Brough Park last week , with Fortunate Man justifying odds of 2–5 by winning the £2,000 Tyneside St Leger over 670 metres and the Irish-owned Bodies Lisa winning a £100 open over 825 metres after being seriously hampered at the first bend . |