Example sentences of "[adv] the last " in BNC.
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1 | Since you can pick up a no-frills steam iron for £40 or £50 I assumed it would take all the angst out of what is arguably the last of the genuinely ghastly domestic chores . |
2 | Right the last one on the rela |
3 | It showed an elderly couple being given their meal by a uniformed WRVS woman who was asking them if the food had been all right the last time . |
4 | Right the last meeting was nineteenth of January last Wednesday . |
5 | Luckily the last few miles are downhill into Barnsley . ’ |
6 | And then very very importantly the last mnemonic ANNA cos that really is belt and braces , it 's tying the whole thing up so the guy knows exactly why you 're gon na come back . |
7 | He was dead the last time I saw him . ’ |
8 | In the unpublished ‘ Epilogue ’ to that work , we learn that Shadowfax will be saved too , to be taken on the last ship from the Havens to Aman , simply because Gandalf could not bear the parting . |
9 | ‘ Much better the last couple of days . ’ |
10 | The brilliance of the morning caused her to vow that Doreen would be unable to spoil that particular part of the day , and suddenly the last vestige of her previous depression vanished . |
11 | We were apparently the last straw . |
12 | LENNOX LEWIS and Frank Maloney are apparently the last two people this side of Jupiter to realise that when it comes to world heavyweight boxing titles , possession is 10 tenths of the law . |
13 | A local tombstone recording the death in 1806 of John Taylor , potter , is apparently the last reference to pot-making at Silkstone . |
14 | But this could not be done without noise , especially the last , and hearing it the defenders lit first torches and then large beacons along the walls and opened up with their guns . |
15 | But the real find is the haul of letters , especially the last , sent from Graceland , his home in Memphis , Tennessee , and dated August 15 , 1977 . |
16 | Especially the last one , and you should know by now that I do n't function well without caffeine . ’ |
17 | It is not difficult to make similar observations in the case of other adjectives : ( 8 ) a meteorological expert romantic novelists foreign policy a nuclear scientist animate nouns the royal hatmaker All these are wholly respectable phrases of English ( especially the last one ) but , in every case , a test using the sentence " This N is A " will either give a meaning to the adjective which is different from that in the original phrase , or simply produce an unacceptable result . |
18 | They knew every day you , when you went on the rounds they knew just where to stop and start , especially the last pony I had . |
19 | He had enough the last time did he ? |
20 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |
21 | The emergence of such standards , and the ability to re-use programs written in conventional languages , should bring down the last barriers to wide acceptance of parallel computing . |
22 | Come on , come on , he thought , and pictured the three of them plummeting down the last thirty feet into the basement . |
23 | Most damningly , it was the SDLP which brought down the last Labour Government . |
24 | Nevertheless , the decision was enough to make Labour 's ‘ sister party ’ bring down the last Labour Government and the working class throughout the UK is still paying for the SDLP 's pettiness . |
25 | Gerry Fitt with the full support of his party brought down the last Labour government over a decision which greatly enhanced the SDLP 's standing . |
26 | I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth . |
27 | Expertly , the gardener pinned down the last of the net with a wire stake . |
28 | gut Mr Lu got back into it down the last . |
29 | The crowd cheered us in of course , but it 's not the same as coming down the last as the winner for sure . |
30 | He washed down the last of the bread with a mouthful of tea and stood up . |