Example sentences of "[pers pn] at [art] last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ca n't gazump you at the last minute cos it makes |
| 2 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Claudine had probably dropped that on him at the last minute . |
| 5 | This is strongly implied in John chapter 6 where the Spirit is brought closely into relation with ‘ eating his body and drinking his blood ’ and so being confident of dwelling in Christ , being fed by him , and being raised up by him at the last day ( 6:54,56,63 ) ; just as he is in chapter 3:3–8 in connection with the new birth . |
| 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 | What if I decide against it at the last minute ? |
| 11 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 12 | Begin what seems to be a front kick , then change it at the last moment into a high roundhouse kick . |
| 13 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 14 | It currently has a service within the Fire Service wh which costs a certain amount and we ca n't presume and I would , I suspect that Councillor is is actually trying to do is to get in by the back door for cut that we will then be forced to make the March March March Committee well I hope that members of this at this this this Committee would reject that er suggestion as it at the last meeting . |
| 15 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 16 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 17 | I can not chuck them at the last minute . |
| 18 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 19 | If you were with us at the last occasion of this sort , the last centenary lecture on Gerter , given by Professor Corby , you will remember on that occasion erm he provided a focus of illumination in a period of power cuts , economic gloom and all the rest of it . |
| 20 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 21 | We thank Raymond and his bride Koti for not cancelling us at the last minute , and allowing BBC Good Food to share in their excitement . |