Example sentences of "last [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A HUGE open-air concert has been cancelled at the last minutes over cash wrangles . |
| 2 | But in the last minutes of the game , after Phillip de Glanville had ripped open the defence for Hunter 's second try — leaving England 18–12 behind — England again lacked the cold , clinical brain the would open the way through the New Zealand defence . |
| 3 | The last minutes of their lives were pieced together by forensic teams hunting the killers . |
| 4 | His penalty against Tarbes in the last minutes of the game levelled the score 18–18 . |
| 5 | It 's our duty anyway to get these words though the last minutes of discussion have been possibly the most valuable cos if we can not use language accurately |
| 6 | If there was six foot four of muscle , tensed and angry in the last minutes of its life , and your only protection was some lunatic hoodlum standing to one side with a loaded pistol pointed in the general direction of the fray , would you leap in there ? |
| 7 | In the last minutes of the debate — the hon. Member for Birkenhead need not worry ; I am leaving him time within the advice that I have been given — I must mention the generality of the issues raised . |
| 8 | Erm if you recall in our managements ' erm in our discussions when I presented the last the last minutes of the er s the subcommittee which has purchased the ground , we agreed to erm co er co-work with two other two of the clubs sports clubs to establish a management committee , which we would then hope would take over management of the ground from the parish council . |
| 9 | A schoolboy has been recalling the last minutes of a ski-lift crash in which his step brother died . |
| 10 | Int eh last minutes of the Sale , a friend from South Leith Church , kindly helping , managed by sheer persistence and cleverness to find in the music section ( a rate slip-up ! ) a perfect RLS book for the new owner of Swanston Cottage . |
| 11 | Some were lying on charpoys , snoozing away the last minutes before their first meal for thirteen hours . |
| 12 | i can just verify that Frank is having talks with a spanish 1 div club ( i do nt think they have any ‘ premier div ’ down there — so first is first … ) — i guess Frank feels he does n't get the chance he + me + others thinks he deserves — Dino and Wallace just not delivering goals and Frank never getting more than the 10 last minutes from time to time . |
| 13 | If the exiled son were a soldier and died suddenly , as so often happened , a brother officer would write of his last hours to the sorrowing parents ( see chapter seven ) . |
| 14 | Ceauşescu was not after all Pol Pot , though in his last hours on earth perhaps he wished that he had been . |
| 15 | By the power of his mind , he had the ability to focus a film-like apparition of their last hours on a blank wall … there , quite clearly , were Mallory and Irvine with their backs to the summit , which was a small distance above them … ’ ’ |
| 16 | Last hours of murdered lovers ' lane couple could yield clue . |
| 17 | Here , for example , is how the American journalist I. F. Stone describes the last hours of his voyage to Haifa , aboard a Turkish refugee ship called the Akbel , a listing hulk carrying hundreds of concentration camp survivors on their journey to Palestine . |
| 18 | ‘ In the last hours of her life , my mother seemed to turn to the Lord . |
| 19 | Once , it had seemed that the candle of her life would burn only till Christmas , and that it was towards that single point that she was spinning out the last hours of her life . |
| 20 | And in the camera , when police eventually got round to checking , were 17 pictures of the last hours of their lives . |
| 21 | And in the last hours of night , Hell 's streets teemed with the addicts , the muggers . |
| 22 | It was a letter describing the last hours of a friend of his . |
| 23 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 24 | His memory was indistinct — a few details only stood out in odd clarity : listening to ‘ Palm Court ’ on the radio , followed with awful inevitability by ‘ Variety Bandbox ’ , the last hours of the week-end petering out , wasted , joyless , empty ; bed , and school again the next day . |
| 25 | It is not until the death of Lowe , on September 30th 1467 , that we come to our next account in which a full description of the last hours of this Bishop are given . |
| 26 | ‘ We are trying to trace everyone who was at the party to try to piece together the last hours of his life . ’ |
| 27 | So the inquiry is by no means cut and dried and they 're now trying to piece together the last hours of the dead woman 's life . |
| 28 | The Northern Echo published details of how she spent the last hours of her life on a shopping trip with her friend , Veronica Alderson , from Kirk Merrington . |
| 29 | During his last hours in this world , he found unspeakable comfort in thinking about some verses from Hebrews Ch.12 , ‘ But ye are come unto mount Sion , and unto the city of the living God , the heavenly Jerusalem , and to the innumerable company of angels , to the general assembly and church of the firstborn , which are written in heaven , and to God , the Judge of all , and to the spirits of just men made perfect , and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant ’ . |
| 30 | THE last hours in the lives of two British women murdered in South Africa were brought vividly to life yesterday in photographs taken just before they died . |