Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [num ord] moment " in BNC.

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1 She was about to say so , in no uncertain terms , but stopped herself at the last moment .
2 She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod .
3 Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment .
4 At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment .
5 The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach .
6 Begin what seems to be a front kick , then change it at the last moment into a high roundhouse kick .
7 He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop .
8 No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me .
9 ‘ I think I 've loved you from the first moment I saw you , ’ she said , and drew in her breath sharply as he crushed her against him .
10 Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment .
11 I ca n't understand why they left it till the last moment ?
12 Miss Coldharbour had recruited her at the last moment to help serve supper for Canon Wheeler 's guests who included the Bishop and the Earl of Medewich and Markham .
13 Never trusted him from the first moment .
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