Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I express our disappointment at the last minute postponement of the carefully planned visit of Anne-Marie de Jonghe to Wales . |
| 2 | I 've spent 13 years travelling the world with badminton — I was coach to the Australian side at the last World Championships — and it will be nice to spend some time at home . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Can I can I say before I do launch into the amendment to Mr that you have played your card at the last election and the Leicestershire public has resoundedly given their answer to your particular policies . |
| 5 | I am not sure that we would think the dancing , except by some of the principals , quite so wonderful by today 's standards , but we saw it with different eyes then , and John would have for comparison his memories of the Cape Town Ballet Club 's brave but handicapped attempt at the last act of the ballet , Aurora 's Wedding . |
| 6 | Tony asked , suspecting that Freddie had lost his nerve at the last minute . |
| 7 | She lost her nerve at the last minute . |
| 8 | His only serious challenger was E.S.B. , but Devon Loch was a length to the good at the last fence and started to pull away up the run-in , over a quarter of a mile long . |
| 9 | THE former chairman of the GLC 's Police Committee and member of Ken Livingstone 's municipal revolutionary guard , Boateng , 40 , has risen rapidly since gaining his seat at the last election . |
| 10 | She remembered that Bridget had put a couple of bottles of white in the freezer compartment at the last minute . |
| 11 | The problematic four Duetti ( two prelude and fugue pairs ) were added as an afterthought at the last moment . |
| 12 | Six Welsh officials and 10 players made the trip , many changing their mind at the last minute . |
| 13 | From a kneeling position , he turned and doused the oil lamp hoping to reduce the chance of any embarrassment changing Molly 's mind at the last minute . |
| 14 | She was nervous that he might change his mind at the last minute , but he did not do so . |
| 15 | All the techniques in taekwondo are flexible and allow the practitioner to change his mind at the last minute as to which block or punch will provide him with the best defence or counter-attack . |
| 16 | Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ? |
| 17 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 18 | I can change my mind at the last minute if I think the thing is n't watertight . ’ |
| 19 | It 's not fair on a man if a women undresses and then changes her mind at the last minute . |
| 20 | Once a boy was almost carted away but the Headmaster changed his mind at the last moment . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , she changed her mind at the last moment . |
| 22 | I distinctly remember , in a television interview at the last party conference , Cecil Parkinson declaring that before privatisation , the heads of the nationalised industries ran their organisations for their own benefit , not the public 's . |
| 23 | We 're both Aquarian dreamers and have always been able to be ‘ alone ’ together , or step easily into imagination games , and Max — like me — has a fairy godmother who always seems to save his neck at the last minute . |
| 24 | That way , you know where to find them and do n't risk a lengthy search at the last minute , which may be boring and off-putting for both of you . |
| 25 | Julia , who called off their wedding at the last minute a year ago , was recently in Ireland with new lover Jason Patric . |
| 26 | Prompts and options are on a ‘ loop ’ : eg tapping the ( Right ) direction key at the last prompt takes the cursor back to the first . |
| 27 | The Hong Kong Rugby Football Union , in a shock move — one which stems from desperation — saddled Simpkin with the post of national coach at the last meeting of its executive committee in March . |
| 28 | I mean , I lashed out in a panic at the last moment . |
| 29 | Realising its error at the last minute , the magazine just managed to insert a back-page acknowledgement of its gaffe but not to correct the offending caption . |
| 30 | Lynne voted Conservative at the last election and Labour in 1983 , but this time is uncommitted to any party . |