Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [art] last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island .
2 Pressing himself against the last wagon he peered around the side for any sign of the guards .
3 ‘ What I want now is to know who in the last month has been here to buy arsenic and belladonna ?
4 Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day .
5 They ca n't gazump you at the last minute cos it makes
6 She was about to say so , in no uncertain terms , but stopped herself at the last moment .
7 She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning .
8 If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 .
9 He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand .
10 She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod .
11 But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year .
12 He did n't catch us until the last peak , Creag nan Damh , where a number of ridge-walkers were gathered , basking in the delight of the afternoon and resting on their laurels after a mammoth expedition .
13 I can not chuck them at the last minute .
14 Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes .
15 You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West .
16 It was squarely concluded that Hitler , through the over-estimation of his own strength and rejection of all overtures for peace from neutral states , ‘ bears himself in the last resort the blame for the retrograde development which has now set in ’ .
17 Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment .
18 Mota , from Portugal , suffered yet again with a mysterious stomach complaint , which affected her during the last world championships .
19 She had hardly seen him over the last months .
20 Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ?
21 Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate .
22 Efforts to strengthen and improve it in the last decades of the century had only moderate success .
23 yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two
24 Taping rehearsals also reduces the likelihood of arguments about who played what at the last rehearsal .
25 ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute .
26 At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment .
27 You still owe me from the last time .
28 ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’
29 What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world .
30 That leads me to the last question , ground ( 7 ) .
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