Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the last moment " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Distorted , the vanquished falls as the victor is pulled aloft at the last moment .
3 And if something else really was slipped aboard at the last moment , he thought , who knows but we may recover that , too !
4 He did so at the last moment when the Unionists agreed not to oppose Henderson .
5 The band had been thrown together at the last moment ; and none of the musicians looked or sounded as if he was enjoying the experience .
6 The attack is a low-level one , the hooked talons thrown forward at the last moment to seize the fish , the forward speed of the eagle pulling the catch from the water .
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