用“at the last minute”造句大全，at the last minute造句

Sorry I'm late ．My mother called at the last minute．

Don't stress about these at the last minute!

I sent off my university application at the last minute and nearly missed the the boat.

Encouragingly, some firms say the tests have been tightened at the last minute.

start sharpening one's spear just before going into Battle; do things at the last minute

Jack said he would play for our team at the weekend but he cried off at the last minute.

Jamie was going to walk along the top of the wall but he chickened out at the last minute.

One man had to defend voting absentee at the last minute, without having applied in advance, as the law required.

You think maybe Noah Bexter got religion at the last minute and wanted to spill his gut?

A man who was about to be executed for lethal injections was suspended at the last minute.

I'm not saying you should ignore your classes until the last minute (please don't -i rarely studied at the last minute myself), but it's good to know there is a way to save yourself if you do.

I used to get up at dawn to practice before I left for “downtown”, distracting my poor mother by bolting a hasty breakfast at the last minute.

This possible mismatch was spotted at the last minute and the piece yanked, though it resurfaced next month with the support of the fearless Austrian tourist board.

That leads the cynical to wonder if the report was jazzed up at the last minute in an attempt to win political brownie points for an unpopular government.

Cooks get orders ready for the waiters and prepare dishes such as grilled steaks that are cooked at the last minute.

One of Marquis's friends couldn't make the trip, so at the last minute I invited my best friend, Will [Bleakley], from my college football team.

After wards, we were supposed to go to Xian Foreign Language University to do another meet and greet but it got canceled at the last minute.

Although it appeared that the Palestinians had enough support at the council to endorse the report, Abbas backed away at the last minute, apparently under intense US diplomatic pressure.

At one point he came so close to running out of gas he considered using his parachute. But at the last minute he found a place to land and get gas.

Over the past decade or so the just-in-time concept of having supplies delivered at the last minute, so as to keep inventories down, has spread down the global manufacturing chain.

In countries where social services exist, those desperate for a rescue will begin to assume that the government will act, perhaps at the last minute but in time to rescue them.

In these very high temperatures, it is like racing in a sauna, and the track became very slippery, but I was able to put together my best lap right at the last minute.

If you make sure to backup all your files on an external hard drive or online storage system, you'll never have to worry about losing your notes at the last minute.

change one's plans at the last minute

The plane had pulled up at the last minute.

reneged on the contract at the last minute.

I don't want us to lose at the last minute.

He lost confidence and backed out of the deal at the last minute.

We got a cheap flight to Japan at the last minute.

The noodles are not Fried separately, but are thrown in at the last minute and tossed with the stir fry.

I wanted to tell the boss what I thought, but I chickened out at the last minute.

I was going to enter a belly-dancing contest, but I bottled out at the last minute.

The South Koreans, in particular, were privately furious at Washington for moving the drill at the last minute to the Sea of Japan.

If you must decline at the last minute, please notify the host prior to the event or first thing the next day with sincere regrets.

They quit on the one yard give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

And never dress as if the jeans had been switched out from formal suit pants at the last minute: No fancy French-cuffed shirts with jeans, he advises.

Helen's party had to be cancelled at the last minute and we couldn't bear to be all dressed up with nowhere to go.

" That is to say, never worship the Buddha at ordinary times but only pray in time of trouble, which means it's too late to find a way out at the last minute.

The legislation had been approved by Congress at the last minute, and there was no time to fly it to France for Obama's signature before the anti-terrorism powers expired.

The idea is to create a system of elements that integrate together to form a cohesive whole. A design that achieves this seems to fit together perfectly; nothing looks stuck on at the last minute.

A leap second is an extra second added to the last day of the month of March, June, October or December which means that the last minute in the day for that month has more than 60 seconds.

Don't get distracted at the last minute.

Their sponsors pulled back at the last minute.

The team was behind, but at the last minute Tom saved the day with a touchdown.

Begin to sink well when feeling thirsty; do a thing at the last minute

She was going to sell the house but had a change of heart at the last minute。

They were concealed on the east coast of the island and were rescued at the last minute by the Duncan, who had stopped at the original designated location.

A source close to Mr Brown confirmed the issue had been raised but denied the reform had been removed from the Green Paper at the last minute.

The plan was going well, but we had to scrub it at the last minute because we ran out of ideas.

I made up my mind about President Putin a few months ago, but it was only at the last minute that he sat down for an interview.

He hit a high fly right to the center fielder The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it!

If that isn't the case -- if emails and phone calls consistently go unreturned, or if interviews are canceled at the last minute without apology -- you may want to take your business elsewhere.

lost his nerve at the last minute.

Freddy chickened out of the plan at the last minute.

Powell's old rival Lewis withdrew from the long jump competition at the last minute.

It's much better to finish the work calmly and orderly than to rush through at the last minute.

The ship wasn't nimble enough to avoid an iceberg that lookouts spotted (the only way to detect icebergs at the time) at the last minute in the darkness.

Disgusting. Tmac cannot miss at the last minute of the game. Is that some kind of joke Tmac playing on the Rockets?

Kate had planned to travel to Paris alone to acquire an import-export company, but at the last minute she asked Brad to accompany her.

In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values.

Words failed me at the last minute.

I was fortunate to catch today' s last bus to the county at the last minute.

I wanted to tell the director what I thought, but I chickened out at the last minute.

I added the olives on a high-calorie whim at the last minute, and they crop up, bleak and oily surprises, among the noodles.

As the division was taking place, a scuffle broke out between some of the deputies over an insult allegedly levelled at one of the lawmakers who unexpectedly changed her vote at the last minute.

But at the last minute he announced he had only just been given formal Federation Aviation Authority (FAA) approval to fly, and had therefore not had enough time to train.

You think maybe he got religion at the last minute and wanted to spill his gut?

I used to get up at dawn to practice before I left for "downtown", distracting my poor mother by bolting a hasty breakfast at the last minute.

I was going to cross the stream on a fallen log but at the last minute I lost my nerve and went the long way round by the bridge.

Many times, success comes at the last minute.

A bus driver named Huang Zhiquan, in driving a heart attack, at the last minute, do three things: a car slowly to a stop at the side of the road, and with his last strength pull hand brake.

The vendors were gazundered at the last minute.

We've been doing business together a long time, so I'm tipping you off. We want to avoid a lot off talk and embarrassment at the last minute."

However, at the last minute, Mr Karmazin rustled up another deal, which grants his heavily indebted firm a reprieve.

Be sure to print some extra copies so you’ll have enough to add contacts at the last minute or to redo cards or letters that are misaddressed or need to be redone for some reason.

I was going to have a go at parachuting but lost my nerve at the last minute.