Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the last minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |
| 2 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |
| 3 | In that election the candidate dropped out at the last minute and the only man who could be found to replace him was living in Zambia . |
| 4 | Graham Fowler made it a double when he teamed up at the last minute with Chris Schaefer from Tennis World and in see-saw men 's double final the Tennis World pair of Ben O'Connor and Peter Ford . |
| 5 | Mrs McIntosh , she knew , had had a young man who pulled out at the last minute ; she might take him in . |
| 6 | The arguments over who he should drive for went on until the last minute when it was decided that Clark should make the fateful trip to Germany . |
| 7 | Boss David McErlain blames poor summer business and a vital sell-off deal that fell through at the last minute for this latest crisis . |
| 8 | The interview fell through at the last minute … |
| 9 | Programme assistant Ian Edgar stood in at the last minute . |
| 10 | The Chicago discussions were attended by fifty-one countries , many of which were still under German or Japanese occupation , so the proceedings were dominated by the USA , Britain , and the Commonwealth ( the USSR backed out at the last minute ) . |
| 11 | But , just as at Lani 's , I backed out at the last minute . |
| 12 | I thought he must have stood me up … backed out at the last minute … |
| 13 | I expect he jumped out at the last minute . |