Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the last minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 2 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 3 | He almost missed the turning off the taxiway to the runway and had to brake hard at the last minute . |
| 4 | His scams and cons , however , are not always abortive and the profit he makes is not always snatched away at the last minute . |
| 5 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 6 | But he took the evening paper suggestion more seriously , and it eventually emerged as the London Daily News , which was changed ambitiously at the last minute into Britain 's first twenty-four-hour ‘ rolling newspaper ’ , aimed at pulling both evening and morning sales . |