Example sentences of "[adv] at the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political pilgrim should not stumble through backstreets and alleys with only glimpses of his goal , then suddenly at the last moment find all revealed ; rather he should approach it in awe , aware of its enormous size from a great distance . |
| 2 | Perhaps at the last moment an angel will appear . |
| 3 | Only at the last minute , by forced marches , would it suddenly make for the Channel coast . |
| 4 | A second date was set for last Monday , when Mr Connelly was again told of the cancellation only at the last minute . |
| 5 | Only at the last minute , at the station , did she seem sad again . |
| 6 | He had been on the point of hiding in the kiosk : only at the last moment had he dived beneath it . |
| 7 | It was only at the last moment that the real or unreal nature of an escape project was finally determined . |
| 8 | There were many cases where Bloomsbury House was involved not at all , or only at the last moment when it was generally too late to offer any constructive help . |
| 9 | Only at the last moment , when he 'd been recognized in turn , did Zen realize that it was Daniele Miletti . |
| 10 | ‘ Four faults , ’ crackled the public address system as the little bright-bay mare failed to tuck her hind feet up quite high enough at the last bar of the treble . |
| 11 | When it comes to that though there will be people from other green parties who who 'll be looking for accommodation so at the last minute we can |
| 12 | He did so at the last moment when the Unionists agreed not to oppose Henderson . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His scams and cons , however , are not always abortive and the profit he makes is not always snatched away at the last minute . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Ahead children lay like bundles of clothing on the edge of the road , only rolling away at the last hoot . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I took the can carefully away at the last moment . |
| 21 | Oh just at the last minute , yes when we were leaving . |
| 22 | So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction |
| 23 | Sometimes a head-on collision with a lorry seems inevitable , but somehow at the last moment we or they swerve out of the way . |
| 24 | Look also at the last column in Table 3.5 . |
| 25 | Last week , practically at the last minute , it reportedly decided to press the code for a 30-way system on to its first CD-ROM . |
| 26 | Distorted , the vanquished falls as the victor is pulled aloft at the last moment . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And we have n't got to the science-fiction world of brainwashing — in fact Harley came across pretty well at the last press conference . |
| 29 | Even at the last conclave , in 1978 , this hypothetical cardinal could at most have been only 49 years old . |
| 30 | He then feels that , in all fairness , he must give some guidance on the loose ends , even at the last moment . |