Example sentences of "the last [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Really , ’ exclaimed in heavily scandalized tones one of the few other passengers braving the last gusts of a salt-laden sirocco up on deck , an Englishwoman in an ample frock loud with different coloured daisies . |
| 2 | The final take off comes in December when the last bombers leave British soil . |
| 3 | The last trams on these routes ran on the night of 19 October 1936 . |
| 4 | These cars were the last to be constructed by English Electric for Blackpool , and the last trams that they built in their East Works , now used by British Aerospace . |
| 5 | Very often the last journeys of these beloved objects were accomplished to the tune of distressing protests , or of heart-rending pleas for clemency . |
| 6 | That 's because 90 's intensive agriculture and the developer 's bulldozer are rather effective at wiping away the last finger-prints of the all too impermanent way . |
| 7 | The last whodunnits ? |
| 8 | This may be one of the last chances for admirers of 32-year-old Miss Brind to see her dance , as she has a burgeoning acting career . |
| 9 | But such worries are nothing compared to the dilemma facing the Kremlin as the waves of perestroika lap at one of the last fortresses of communist orthodoxy . |
| 10 | A berserk laundromatte — the last switches are being |
| 11 | The twins stood over it , stirring the last embers with their feet . |
| 12 | She and her Mum go to the pictures often , and on Saturday nights they fry steak and listen to the radio , and talk until the last embers have faded to ash . |
| 13 | There is an art to the task ; it is possible , otherwise , to put out the fire by smothering it with too much fuel , or even to poke it up too hard so that the last embers blaze up and the fire dies . |
| 14 | Led the last stretches of the way by a guide using arcane local landmarks , they arrived at Dunvegan Castle in the later afternoon , and Johnson found himself much warmed by the reception . |
| 15 | Agreements were signed on cultural relations and on science and technology co-operation , and on honouring the memory of the dead from the last wars . |
| 16 | THE latest steam locomotive to receive attention from the Midland Railway Centre 's Locomotive Restoration Workshops is 73129 , which was one of the last engines to be constructed by the Derby Locomotive Works in 1956 . |
| 17 | The last officers would also have liked the jail to stay open |
| 18 | During the Christmas revolution , it was claimed that Arab guerrillas in training camps formed the core of the last defenders of Ceauşescu 's regime . |
| 19 | Just before the last talks were abandoned in November , the Unionists revealed their ideas about new north-south institutions , covering common topics like agriculture , which could have limited executive power . |
| 20 | When the last resonances of the symphony had died , all that was left was an electronic whine . |
| 21 | The Guinness family , the last owners of the estate , had also built a fanciful fishing lodge beside the castle . |
| 22 | If we could have erm , a coffee break now until ten past three , and then we 'll enter the last phase on the , on the Covermaster , one of the last areas which is features to benefits . |
| 23 | Sealink and P&O , with an estimated 80% share of the short-route ferry market , are pinning their hopes for the future on large capacity super-ferries and changes in manning procedures introduced after the last seamen 's strike . |
| 24 | When Rebecca Kraemer remarked , as the last murmurs of the slow movement died away , that it was such a pity the conductor was still following the now-discredited Haas edition , she was telling everyone within earshot — which included half the audience — everything that Alison could have wanted them to know but naturally would n't have dreamt of mentioning herself . |
| 25 | The last dates for the receipt of applications are : candidates including Oxford or Cambridge among their entries by 15 October 1993 ; candidates not including Oxford or Cambridge among their entries by 15 December 1993 . |
| 26 | Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib . |
| 27 | He imagined being shot in the water and it closing over his head , filling his mouth and lungs , the last moments of life choked out of him . |
| 28 | Even today , the bookshops of Hamra Street and Sassine Square contain shelves of expensive photographic records of the fighting , coffee table books with colour plates in which readers can study at their leisure and in detail the last moments of a young Muslim militiaman before the firing squad , the anguished eyes of a Palestinian mother pleading for her family before a hooded gunman , a Christian family lying massacred inside their home . |
| 29 | In the last moments of the retreat , Eachuin Odhar had taken an arrow deep in the side of his neck , and though he could move about and gesture to organise their camp , he could n't speak . |
| 30 | See also Mr Blunderum 's paper on ‘ the last moments of the learned pig ’ in the ‘ Full Report of the First Meeting of the Mudfog Association ’ ( MUDFOG PAPERS ) . |