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 . |