Example sentences of "[noun] at the [adv] [num ord] moment " in BNC.
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1 | They might be waiting — waiting to snatch him from salvation at the very last moment . |
2 | Sometimes people go for a corner intending to commit themselves , but , although the brain is trying to hold the foot down , it somehow comes off the gas pedal at the very last moment . |
3 | Putt saw the movement of the rope at the very last moment , but too late to do anything about it . |
4 | One of his killers is the high-minded Virginsky who ‘ will never , never abandon these bright hopes ’ ( my italics ) , and another member of the quintet is Shigalov who pulls out of the affair at the very last moment , not from fear or pity or remorse but because the murder ‘ is in direct contradiction of my programme ’ — of Shigalov 's own brand of revolutionary ideology . |
5 | But luck had come her way at the very last moment . |