Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [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 idea is to place a cereal like cornflakes round it and then add milk at the last moment before producing it . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ Or else the server would have to add poison at the last moment — surely very risky . |
6 | Four weeks of near stasis in voters ' attitudes apparently gave way at the last moment to a near avalanche . |