Example sentences of "[verb] its last " in BNC.
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| 1 | In-form at the moment at the Tyneside track is Deneview Dipper , which has won its last two races , including an A1 event last Saturday night . |
| 2 | The government is also aware that during the next ten years Japan has its last chance to provide more of the amenities that most westerners take for granted . |
| 3 | THE final UCF road cycling event of the season takes place this evening at Burnhouse when the Vets League has its last event , a ‘ 10 ’ on the Moira Road with the first rider off at 6.45 . |
| 4 | AS Big Ben bings its last bong at midnight tonight it will be out with the old ITV and in with the new . |
| 5 | One of his main achievements as Director-General of the TBC ( April 1958 to 1962 ) was to increase the effective independence of the organization , which severed its last remaining links with the Government 's public Relations Unit . |
| 6 | We may therefore deflate B , omitting its last row and column and continue the iterations with the leading first minor of B. It is found that , after 22 more iterations , working to six decimal places , unc Thus , the eigenvalues of A are , in descending order of modulus , 12.5 , 5.0 , 2.5 , 0 . |
| 7 | That , more or less , is how the First Spiritualist Church experienced its last and greatest schism . |
| 8 | On the return journey , the Thornton Heath branch was covered and at Telford Avenue depôt , the party changed to another car and No. 1 had completed its last public journey in London , to be prepared for sale to Leeds . |
| 9 | The preceding decades had been dominated by the old-style realism of the regionalist novel , which reached its high point in the 1920s with the publication of José Eustasio Rivera 's The Vortex ( 1924 ) , Ricardo Güiraldes 's Don Segundo Sombra ( 1926 ) and Rómulo Gallegos 's Doña Barbara ( 1929 ) and produced its last major work , Ciro Alegría 's Broad and Alien is the World , in 1941 . |
| 10 | Steam made its last gasps in BR passenger trains , through the heating pipes of passenger coaches . |
| 11 | it made its last appearance at Watkins Glen — a reluctant Andretti again at the wheel — and failed to shine even in the wet conditions of practice . |
| 12 | When the British government sold its last stake in BP in 1987 , the oil firm realised that it might be vulnerable to a bid , so it began to strip itself . |
| 13 | Even Ivanovka , the only village not far from the Moscow railway line , had received its last single copy of a newspaper some months prior to Yakovlev 's visit . |
| 14 | Sumitomo Bank has stuck with NCR equipment for every generation of its banking systems since the implementation of the First Online system in the 1970s , and the defeat means that NCR now loses its last big customer account and one for which it maintained considerable investment in mainframes — even developing the 9800XL series , last of its mainframes — especially for Sumitomo . |
| 15 | ‘ A generation plunged into the torment of AIDS loses its last romantic , ’ said Paris-Match after Collard 's death . |
| 16 | Republican Austria buried its last empress , 96-year-old Zita , with all due pomp on April 1st . |
| 17 | ‘ When I rang up Decin late in the evening and heard that the picture had made its last journey back home in the company of highly explosive gas containers , I said a silent prayer and sang halleluia three times ’ , said the dowager Fürstin Zita von Thun-Hohenstein . |
| 18 | Sir , I was sorry to read in issue 163 of Steam Railway News , that the National Railway Museum 's , V2 4771 Green Arrow , has made its last ever main line run . |
| 19 | At the same time Britain devolved its last colony in South-East Asia to the new Malaysia . |
| 20 | Impact occurred near Hochwald after the aircraft had apparently began its last attempt at an ILS approach from the BS beacon instead of the BN |
| 21 | The rock surrendered its last hope |
| 22 | BOAC run its last flying boat to Madeira in 1958 , before the advent of package holidays , although isolated services persisted into the 1970s among the islands of Australasia and the West Indies . |
| 23 | After assurances from US officials that the USA would continue to monitor the peace process , the FMLN demobilized its last contingent of around 2,000 combatants and turned in the last of its weapons ( including 55 surface-to-air missiles ) to the UN on Dec. 14 . |
| 24 | Her family has celebrated its last Christmas at the 24-seat , 18th century dining table , expected to fetch £12,000 . |
| 25 | LOW & Bonar has sold its last remaining African interests . |
| 26 | Ten thousand years ago the ice began its last retreat from Loch Ness . |
| 27 | The sun curls its last rays round the mountain . |
| 28 | I hate ‘ Guernica ’ 's penultimate journey postponing its last , triumphant voyage into nothingness . |
| 29 | DURING the final week of the election , Punch breathed its last . |
| 30 | As the season enters its last month , the two sides are neck and neck , with Colchester leading on goal difference after beating Slough 4–0 on Tuesday . |