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 | ‘ Much better the last couple of days . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We were apparently the last straw . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A local tombstone recording the death in 1806 of John Taylor , potter , is apparently the last reference to pot-making at Silkstone . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Especially the last one , and you should know by now that I do n't function well without caffeine . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had enough the last time did he ? |
| 19 | I had gained a poet but was losing a lover , perhaps the last I would ever know . |
| 20 | ARCHIE BINDING , who has died aged 105 , was perhaps the last survivor of those Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airmen who crewed airships in the First World War . |
| 21 | Barnes was perhaps the last of the great illiterates , one case in the mould of Brindley . |
| 22 | It reached staggering heights at Boston Park Square ( 1872–4 ) , Worcester , Massachusetts ( 1875–6 ) , Indianapolis Union ( 1886–9 ) , and supremely at Waterbury , Connecticut ( 1909 ) , perhaps the last example , where the campanile duplicated the height of the station building some two and a half times . |
| 23 | Perhaps the last word might go to L. R. McColvin , whose views on the relationship between book provision and demand make interesting reading 35 years after they were written . |
| 24 | Perhaps the last three Sonatas verge more on the side of a string quintet , after all they were roughly contemporaneous with the great C major String Quintet ? |
| 25 | Perhaps the last feeble kick of this lust to print one 's name was the station platform and amusement arcade machine where , on inserting a penny , one was able to punch one 's name on a metal strip , which the contraption disgorged on the pull of a handle . |
| 26 | Baldwin was perhaps the last Prime Minister to treat his Cabinet colleagues , as Gladstone had done , as members of a college of cardinals . |
| 27 | Perhaps the last word should be given to Caroline Moorehead , who has edited the eight volumes of Dame Freya 's letters and deserves to be listened to . |
| 28 | Perhaps the last word belongs to a letter written with panache and tongue in the cheek by Arthur Dimmock , the BDA 's most distinguished and prolific deaf journalist and a future member of its executive : So the offensive word " dumb " has at length been dropped from the title of this country 's major organisation . |
| 29 | This is the first and perhaps the last time that I shall desire it . |
| 30 | He belonged to perhaps the last generation in which it was possible to be very successful in science by making one 's own way , rather than following a standard pattern . |