Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [art] [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not by someone else stepping in at the last moment . |
| 2 | He was intended to come down at the wrong moment , disappear , do the same again , then go shooting through the roof when the mechanics of the wire go wrong . |
| 3 | The basic recipe is a reduction of white wine and brown fond de veau lié with a julienne of gherkins and mustard stirred in at the last moment . |
| 4 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Land-agents and estate agents passing through at the brief moment of negotiation are likely to be more exclusively dominated by the money motive . |
| 7 | They come close to enjoining all scientists to refuse to engage in military research but then back off at the last moment . |
| 8 | Every sentence begins ‘ The whole point is this , ’ proceeds doggedly towards the target , then veers off at the last moment and explodes harmlessly in the undergrowth . |
| 9 | Lorton wondered if he 'd chickened out at the last moment . |
| 10 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 11 | The jolt rattled his ribs and he breathed in at the same moment as his head crashed through the surface , like a seal in the surf . |
| 12 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 13 | The plan was called off at the last moment . |
| 14 | His trousers bunch round his ankles again , then catch round his boots and disappear over the edge of the chimney , kicking up at the last moment and hitting the grating ; the branch slips and the grating slams down . |
| 15 | It would n't improve my chances of pleasing the God-King if more ceptors phased out at the wrong moment so that the ship set down on top of something valuable — like the royal palace , the Divine Sanctum . |
| 16 | They could perhaps find a replacement make-up artist , though that would prove difficult at such short notice , but someone coming in at the last moment would find it hard to cope with the unusual styles , and the actors would be having problems enough dealing with first-night nerves without having to face any added strain . |
| 17 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 18 | In the event Lin and Chiang pulled out at the last moment , prompting speculation that Lee had made a deal with the conservatives over the reform programme or over Cabinet posts . |
| 19 | Buy plenty at a time — or get them free from clinics — to avoid running out at an inconvenient moment … |
| 20 | Distorted , the vanquished falls as the victor is pulled aloft at the last moment . |
| 21 | These points , figures , and analogies must be fixed in the memory so that they can be brought out at the appropriate moment . |
| 22 | And if something else really was slipped aboard at the last moment , he thought , who knows but we may recover that , too ! |
| 23 | They were all sitting there staring at me and Monsieur de Levantiére said , ‘ This is Constance , who has kindly stepped in at the last moment . ’ |
| 24 | He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill . |
| 25 | But it all fell through at the last moment . |
| 26 | Maybe he 'll go to Novell and gracefully steal away at the opportune moment . |
| 27 | Companies often recruit staff from speculative letters they have kept on file , and your letter may arrive just at the right moment . |
| 28 | I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment . |
| 29 | Special Branch had warned that political violence was a possibility as the communists were planning to disrupt the meeting ; they allegedly had plans to locate the main power switch so that the lights could be cut off at a favourable moment . |
| 30 | On other occasions a wind suddenly blew from a direction which made recording trains on the climb from Shepton Mallet impossible , or a sudden rain storm blew up at an inopportune moment . |