at the last minute
“
At the last minute
?” he echoed, betraying his surprise that she should ever have considered the alternative possible.
His punctuality is well known; he never arrives too soon, or too late; and I should not be surprised if he appeared before us
at the last minute
.”
take this gentleman’s luggage — Dover line twelve o’clock train — that’s it,” and without waiting for another word Jerry wheeled me round to make room for other cabs that were dashing up
at the last minute
, and drew up on one side till the crush was past.
It was hard getting into my dress alone, and I hadn’t time to eat but a mouthful, and just
at the last minute
, when I honestly–HONESTLY –would have thought about clearing away and locking up, I looked at the clock and knew I could hardly get back to school in time to form in the line; and I thought how dreadful it would be to go in late and get my first black mark on a Friday afternoon, with the minister’s wife and the doctor’s wife and the school committee all there!”
Kala Nag had no tusks; the chain was the badge of his authority; but for all that, he swung wide of Moti Guj
at the last minute
, and tried to appear as if he had brought the chain out for amusement.
And
at the last minute
she left a message for him, to be transmitted by Tarzan of the Apes.
“It’s because it warn’t INTENDED for any of us to come but Tom,” he says; “but I begged and begged, and
at the last minute
she let me come, too; so, com- ing down the river, me and Tom thought it would be a first-rate surprise for him to come here to the house first, and for me to by and by tag along and drop in, and let on to be a stranger.
At the last minute
, when the social machine was clogged hopelessly, one member or other of the family poured in a drop of oil.
At the last minute
I saw the great blades move to reverse her, yet on she came as though drawn by some mighty, irresistible power.
At the last minute
there was some delay while we sought a name for her.
“No,” she replied; “
at the last minute
he determined to drive his machine back to New York.
In college, the papers got written
at the last minute
.
Exclusive figures show University Hospitals of Leicester cancelled 1,634 operations
at the last minute
in 2017/18 – the equivalent of 4.5 a day.
‘I guess shopping
at the last minute
is quite a Malaysian culture,’ she joked.
“We were not going to get each other gifts this year, but he decided to buy me something
at the last minute
.
