Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delaney peered closer at the last one , the view spoilt by the fast upward flickering of the frame . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He did so at the last moment when the Unionists agreed not to oppose Henderson . |
| 4 | Jacklin choked again at the last . |
| 5 | 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 . |