Example sentences of "[vb past] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we met the last time . |
| 2 | Nicolo watched as Caroline spooned the last bit of tiramisu from her dessert plate . |
| 3 | Samuel Barber 's Adagio for Strings was well enough played but lacked the last ounce of passion , and suffered badly from the aurally obtrusive air conditioning system , Randall Thompson 's Alleluya showed that the Festival Chorus on this occasion were equally as adept at unaccompanied singing as their counterparts had been last week . |
| 4 | Richie emptied the last of the Glenlivet bottle into their glasses . |
| 5 | A SPECIAL task force yesterday unearthed the last £140,000 of the ransom money handed over after estate agent Stephanie Slater was kidnapped . |
| 6 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |
| 7 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 8 | Only a mile on , they passed the last of the Home outposts , at Dunglass , in a strong position above another of these precipitous deans ; and soon thereafter Dunbar came in sight , town and castle jutting into the Norse Sea , the eastern gateway to the fertile Lothians , red in blood to match the now prevailing redness in soil and stone . |
| 9 | We passed the last houses , the last streetlights . |
| 10 | On June 5 , the Slovenian Assembly passed the last of the key laws to facilitate " the takeover of actual power " and Radio Ljubljana began a three-day presentation on the Slovenian independence process in which the Slovenian government participated . |
| 11 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 12 | We also hear , incidentally , that Dr Mowlam and Tory candidate Robert Goodwill shared the last waltz ( ‘ not quite cheek to cheek ’ says the gallant Goodwill ) at the Langbaurgh council 's chairman 's ball on Friday . |
| 13 | Blake drunk the last drops of his beer and left . |
| 14 | During the seven-year period 1642 to 1649 , parliament also designated the last Wednesday of each month as a solemn day of ‘ fasting and humiliation ’ , which was to be observed by abstinence from food and drink and attendance at a day-long round of religious exercises aimed at producing both personal and national reformation . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I wo n't cry over spilt milk , ’ Karen said as she finally recovered the last smithereen of dog . |
| 16 | On the following flights you position the final turn and approach relative to where you made the last one , i.e. if you kept too close and landed rather far into the field on the first landing , you will move back more on the next , remembering the positioning of the previous flight . |
| 17 | The rising hope of English squash , Cassie Jackman , also made the last eight , but dropped the first game before asserting herself against unseeded Linda Charman , who is a vastly improved player this season . |
| 18 | Toney made the last day and the final two rounds , and I was on my way . |
| 19 | Their cattle are finished : they made the last batch of bread with oxblood to save what 's left of the water , and they drink that mixed with wine , of which there is n't all that much , either . |
| 20 | In 1910 he made the last of his great journeys across China , travelling from Honan in Central China to Russian Turkestan , a distance of 3,750 miles in 174 days . |
| 21 | It would help dispel unhappy memories for Whiteside who made the last of his 38 Northern Ireland appearances in a 3–0 Dublin defeat in 1989 before injury cruelly ended his career at just 26 . |
| 22 | He made the last of his 51 appearances against Scotland in 1984 . |
| 23 | Delaney lowered the last photograph . |
| 24 | Morton said quietly , watching as the tall man lowered the last crate into the hold . |
| 25 | He said it was important that the pace of change was ‘ right ’ but refused to say when he expected the last of the doomed homes to say goodbye to its last resident . |
| 26 | The succession to the Empire was soon re-established in the Habsburg line and the link with Hungary came again after the battle of Mohács in 1526 , when Ferdinand I of Austria succeeded the last Jagellonian King of Hungary and Bohemia , Ludovic , who was drowned while fleeing from the battlefield . |
| 27 | Sitting alone at her kitchen table , Kelly read the last words ever written by her father . |
| 28 | Has the Secretary of State read the last sentence of the Cardiff Business school report , which states : " If as we are led to believe , Wales is drawing on a new era , nobody has informed Mountain Ash about it . " ? |
| 29 | Satisfied , Barry Silk laid the last item of his equipment lovingly down , almost as if for a kit inspection . |
| 30 | The other girl laid the last of the flowers in position , and slammed the van doors shut . |