Example sentences of "at the last [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the bigger boys from Thorpe Street had once tried to outswing him for a dare , but Barry Lock had turned chicken at the last minute and Valance Fraser , who fancied himself as the cock of the street , had managed only a partial swing that left him dangling by his arms in the dirt . |
| 2 | The winger jumped at the last minute and Kitchen slid underneath him like a runaway bull and hit the concrete wall full on . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The bird jumps from its nest at the last minute and runs off making a special squeaking call . |
| 6 | It had been intended to number the main service 109B and 109W , for Blackfriars and Westminster respectively , as had been done in the case of the Wimbledon services , but there was a change in heart at the last minute and the buses were delivered with blinds numbered 109 only . |
| 7 | His three customers on the plane were a woman who had changed her travel plans at the last minute and a married couple starting a world tour . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | but , erm , she was hoping to come to the meeting this evening , but she phoned at the last minute and said she could n't make it , but erm , I do n't know if it would be more appropriate perhaps for the schools groups to get in touch with her and I |
| 10 | However we realise that the decision to book an Amsterdam short break is often taken at the last minute and as we are specialists in arranging holidays at very short notice all bookings made within 7 days of departure are given ‘ PRIORITY STATUS ’ . |
| 11 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
| 12 | He was glad of the distraction , having earlier received a wire from Hilary who , at the last minute and in spite of cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die promises , found it impossible , after all , to come down from London for the first night of Peter Pan . |
| 13 | Er the perceiving people do n't , it does n't worry them very much , they 'll do it all at the last minute and get it sorted out somehow . |
| 14 | It sounded as if her plans had changed at the last minute and , embarrassed by all the trouble Andrew had gone to on her behalf , she had taken the easy way out by returning the keys without a message . |
| 15 | But he cancelled his trip to England at the last minute and pretended he thought I was going to see you in your show and might as well hand you the invitation at the same time . ’ |
| 16 | Dozens of beleagured businessmen in the midst of a painful recession were due to hear Michael Hesletine speak at this conference in Oxfordshire , but the President of the Board of Trade had to cancel at the last minute and the delegates instead got a DTi stand-in . |
| 17 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It starts on Wednesday , and , you know , I 'm taking time off from searching for props at the last minute and dress rehearsing to come and talk to you . |
| 20 | … the recent prosecution of three ex-Constables for grave offences of shopbreaking and garage-breaking of which they were found guilty at the last Assizes and sentenced to long-term imprisonment . |
| 21 | Does he incorporate the votes of everyone who voted Labour or Liberal Democrat at the last election and use that as part of his mandate to enforce his unwanted policies on the Scottish people ? |
| 22 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 23 | ‘ He either knew what was happening to the economy at the last election and lied or he was living in a fool 's paradise unaware of the damage he was doing . ’ |
| 24 | Lord Ridley retired at the last election and took a peerage . |
| 25 | Lynne voted Conservative at the last election and Labour in 1983 , but this time is uncommitted to any party . |
| 26 | Can I can I say before I do launch into the amendment to Mr that you have played your card at the last election and the Leicestershire public has resoundedly given their answer to your particular policies . |
| 27 | Most Christians would claim that the celebration of the Eucharist is one of the most important moments within Christianity , both in its beginnings at the Last Supper and in the life of the Church today . |
| 28 | sorry , erm this budget has a very long gestation period er I 'm on version twelve I think at the last count and I hope there is n't gon na be a version thirteen . |
| 29 | Knox made a desperate bid to get in front at the last corner but Martin held his line and emerged the winner . |
| 30 | His only serious challenger was E.S.B. , but Devon Loch was a length to the good at the last fence and started to pull away up the run-in , over a quarter of a mile long . |