Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] last moment " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 It ran straight , veered at the last moment and dropped .
2 Delegations from Algeria and Yemen travelled to Moscow but withdrew at the last moment in solidarity with the Palestinian delegation .
3 The CDP also expressed its concern at the fact that no polytechnic director had been on the visiting party ( in fact , when the visiting party was first put together , it did include i polytechnic director , who withdrew at the last moment ) .
4 He was supposed to deliver a bull to the district officer , it was about three weeks ago , and he decided at the last moment to replace the bull with another one .
5 He took no stand , but resigned at the last moment from the Lloyd George Cabinet so as to be ingratiatingly available to continue as Foreign Secretary in the new Government .
6 However , they agreed at the last moment to participate .
7 Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment .
8 These are usually concealed and then flashed at the last moment , giving the prospective predator the impression that it is approaching a much larger animal and one that is staring straight at it in a defiant manner .
  Next page