Example sentences of "[prep] the last moment [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the last moment he had feared a trap , but this was the fresh air before him , the dim air of the ravine he knew , hemmed in with rock on both sides between the church and the castle . |
| 2 | But at the last moment her courage deserted her and she ran , sobbing , away from the house into the arms of a friend . |
| 3 | I 've travelled with them all : had a lovely Villa in Tuscany one year through Villas Italia — I 'd organised a party of 14 to come with me , but at the last moment her Mum said no . |
| 4 | She really had made an effort to accept Rune 's invitation for the three of them to attend the firm 's party on the eve of their campaign presentation , but at the last moment her nerve had failed her . |
| 5 | Sometimes a head-on collision with a lorry seems inevitable , but somehow at the last moment we or they swerve out of the way . |
| 6 | But at the last moment she lost the desire to do so , because his face was not merely sad but forbidding , even hostile . |
| 7 | ‘ At the last moment she tried to back out but I dragged her back by the elbow . |
| 8 | At the last moment she shimmered forward to snatch the tell-tale bubble from the girl 's pleat of blond hair . |
| 9 | At the last moment she stopped the manoeuvre and drove on instead . |
| 10 | At the last moment she had not been brave enough . |
| 11 | At the last moment she decided to take Sarah along , too . |
| 12 | At the last moment she twisted away from him and ran back towards the orderlies . |
| 13 | It begins with a single central fact , the murder ; it broadens out as suspect after suspect comes into play ; then almost at the last moment it narrows abruptly down to another single fact , the murderer . |
| 14 | But then at the last moment I drifted wide . |
| 15 | Of course I realised that at the last moment he could have been attached to another troop , but this seemed highly unlikely in view of the S.A.S. methods of training , which relied upon close personal co-operation between all ranks . |
| 16 | At the last moment he saw an apple lying on the dresser and put it in his pocket . |
| 17 | He almost lost it as he came to rest , but at the last moment he twisted onto his back and with both hands pressed his prize thankfully against his frilled inside shirt front . |
| 18 | But at the last moment he changed his mind , and instead leaned forward again and took another cigarette out of the box on the table . |
| 19 | Newley might have been useful here , but at the last moment he had decided not to come . |
| 20 | Then at the last moment he 'd pressed the small jeweller 's box into her hand . |
| 21 | At the last moment he did so . |
| 22 | At the last moment he caught sight of Owen , who had taken up position at an adjoining table , and raised hands to heaven . |