Example sentences of "[coord] at the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data from children whose ears contained fluid at the final assessment or at the last assessment before they were lost to follow up were excluded . |
| 2 | There were a number of girls in the party and at the last minute the female teacher who was to chaperone them dropped out . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the negotiations for a depôt site in Raleigh Road fell through and at the last minute , the company had to seek another site . |
| 4 | All had to agree to the investment , and at the last minute Stockport , the only council where Labour had lost overall control to a mixture of Tories and Liberals , vetoed the decision . |
| 5 | Instead he took a curtain call , and at the last minute before he was to slide behind the curtains behind the bar , he reached for the flowers thrown to him earlier and broke off some of the roses , swaggering round the circle of admirers handing out the roses to the women . |
| 6 | With sudden inspiration and at the last moment , I stripped the big bed of its blanket and pillows and stuffed them on top of the suitcases . |
| 7 | In Madrid Casado triumphed and at the last moment Communist power was broken . |
| 8 | She wrote a few words quickly on a piece of paper , and at the last moment added at the bottom : |
| 9 | How can I forget all 4′ 11″ of him who would run across the office and at the last moment hop , skip and jump and land astride his stool . |
| 10 | Around the World in 80 Days ( BBC-1 ) started by pulling eight million viewers and at the last count two weeks ago had more than 11 million . |
| 11 | Despite a resident magpie — this year 's nest building has already begun — birds visiting the garden daily include blue tit , great tit , long-tailed tit and coal tit , siskin , greenfinch , sparrows , blackbirds , thrushes , robins and at the last count 11 chaffinches . |
| 12 | And at the last Martinho participated in it . |
| 13 | But at the last minute , apparently under the immediate pressure of writing the magazine version of the novel , Dostoevsky realised that ‘ FACTUAL ’ is precisely what Kirillov 's role must not , in essence and impact , be . |
| 14 | The Greens had planned to hold their 1989 rally in the Sorbonne , but at the last minute they were told they would have to go elsewhere and the only venue available at short notice was the Cité . |
| 15 | But at the last minute , self-interest takes over ; in the stark presence of the perforated piece of paper and a stub of pencil on a string , we realise that we have to live in the ‘ real world ’ , and our courage fails us . |
| 16 | Michael Stein opened his mouth to reply but at the last minute , ever the professional , bit back a pithy retort . |
| 17 | But at the last minute , she had too much on . ’ |
| 18 | The French government had argued in favour of " balanced trade " between the two blocs but at the last minute accepted this wording . |
| 19 | But at the last minute the Town board played their cards … and persuaded Gorman to stay on and take over |
| 20 | But at the last minute , following a series of defections , O'Connor was drafted into the side at full back . |
| 21 | She 's not living in Plymouth as , she was gon na be but at the last minute they found a flat for her and |
| 22 | Despite everything she 'd said , her eyes fluttered closed in unspoken invitation , but at the last second she heard his laughter , low and mocking . |
| 23 | But at the last moment she lost the desire to do so , because his face was not merely sad but forbidding , even hostile . |
| 24 | But at the last moment her courage deserted her and she ran , sobbing , away from the house into the arms of a friend . |
| 25 | He nearly made it , but at the last moment the big boar looked up and put in his own charge . |
| 26 | He almost lost it as he came to rest , but at the last moment he twisted onto his back and with both hands pressed his prize thankfully against his frilled inside shirt front . |
| 27 | But at the last moment he changed his mind , and instead leaned forward again and took another cigarette out of the box on the table . |
| 28 | I 've travelled with them all : had a lovely Villa in Tuscany one year through Villas Italia — I 'd organised a party of 14 to come with me , but at the last moment her Mum said no . |
| 29 | But at the last moment , the Bahamian government agreed ( there were rumours that a good deal of money changed hands ) , and a new flight plan was drawn up for Hassan 's 747 . |
| 30 | Newley might have been useful here , but at the last moment he had decided not to come . |