Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] the last moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One of the features of , of the media which I think I mentioned earlier , certainly to one group if not the whole lot , is that people in the media cut things to the last moment , and the final second , it 's part of the adrenaline , we 've a chance to , make people move in . |
| 3 | One idea is to place a cereal like cornflakes round it and then add milk at the last moment before producing it . |
| 4 | Over such key issues as the European Common Market he had followed a prudent , unadventurous course , only moving to endorse membership at the last moment when political circumstances seemed so to dictate . |
| 5 | Your mother was a silly greedy girl — a gold-digger who wanted to marry above her station , but took fright at the last moment , without caring what hurt she bestowed . |
| 6 | ‘ Or else the server would have to add poison at the last moment — surely very risky . |
| 7 | Four weeks of near stasis in voters ' attitudes apparently gave way at the last moment to a near avalanche . |
| 8 | He prepares to do so , and only when it is clear that he will obey the divine command does God at the last moment spare his son and tell him to kill a sheep instead . |
| 9 | It 's like that wire-mesh barrier thing — the one he told me about — the one that stops boats at the last moment from going over the weir . |