Example sentences of "away at the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | His scams and cons , however , are not always abortive and the profit he makes is not always snatched 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 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Ahead children lay like bundles of clothing on the edge of the road , only rolling away at the last hoot . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I took the can carefully away at the last moment . |