Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the last minute [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Disadvantages : She may not have had much experience looking after young children ; she may let you down at the last minute if something else crops up — like a boyfriend . |
2 | Every September we have the small ad hoc Cabinet committee known as the ‘ Star Chamber ’ [ MISC 62 ] in which Lord Whitelaw sits down and tries to bang heads together , and then the Prime Minister comes in at the last minute and bangs heads together even more . |
3 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
4 | After several more sessions out in the country , Hoomey got the hand of it , and learned that , even if he could n't stop , he could steer , and that sitting on Bones 's enormous flights through the atmosphere was comparatively easy once you got used to it , far easier than poor Jazz 's problem of trying to stay aboard when Spot , cantering quite easily towards the jump , put his anchors out at the last minute and stopped dead . |
5 | Mostly , crises arise when a guest pulls out at the last minute and we 're urgently looking for a replacement — sometimes we 've had just a matter of hours . |
6 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
7 | 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 . |