Neither will all those parishioners who deserted Giants Stadium long before the final five minutes.

But they all folded in less than a month, the audiences deserting them long before the last curtain.

He deserted in 1944, only days before the D-Day invasion.

He deserted a good New Jersey team right before the playoffs.

Is deserting the night before the battle any better than deserting in the heat?

Then Burlington deserted on a dark, late January night, three days before the new-moon weekend.

Then he came out and asked Nicholas to accompany him to the church, still deserted an hour before vespers.

I 'deserted before dessert', only to find the debate had been cancelled.

He deserted before the end of the war, thus securing himself an indulgent treatment by the new Titoist regime.

His father, for whom he was named, deserted the family before Tate's birth.