Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 2 | Delaney peered closer at the last one , the view spoilt by the fast upward flickering of the frame . |
| 3 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 4 | The flight from Bahrain , with 263 people on board , veered away at the last moment , skimmed just 80ft above rush-hour traffic and narrowly missed another hotel before the landing was aborted . |
| 5 | Look also at the last column in Table 3.5 . |
| 6 | Distorted , the vanquished falls as the victor is pulled aloft at the last moment . |
| 7 | The outcome could swing dramatically at the last stage . |
| 8 | And if something else really was slipped aboard at the last moment , he thought , who knows but we may recover that , too ! |
| 9 | I 've an awful feeling we should have gone right at the last junction . |
| 10 | He did so at the last moment when the Unionists agreed not to oppose Henderson . |
| 11 | The band had been thrown together at the last moment ; and none of the musicians looked or sounded as if he was enjoying the experience . |
| 12 | Ahead children lay like bundles of clothing on the edge of the road , only rolling away at the last hoot . |
| 13 | He almost missed the turning off the taxiway to the runway and had to brake hard at the last minute . |
| 14 | The attack is a low-level one , the hooked talons thrown forward at the last moment to seize the fish , the forward speed of the eagle pulling the catch from the water . |
| 15 | Jacklin choked again at the last . |
| 16 | His scams and cons , however , are not always abortive and the profit he makes is not always snatched away at the last minute . |
| 17 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 18 | It dominates the town from any direction , looking across the river and seeming to peer cautiously at the last limb of the Jura mountains in the distance , a reminder of the days when an enemy might appear in the valley below . |
| 19 | But he took the evening paper suggestion more seriously , and it eventually emerged as the London Daily News , which was changed ambitiously at the last minute into Britain 's first twenty-four-hour ‘ rolling newspaper ’ , aimed at pulling both evening and morning sales . |