Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
| 2 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 3 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 4 | Danov said : " I certainly assume that Zhivkov and some other people in his government who have paraded their innocence in the last few years will be indicted . " |
| 5 | Thresher insiders believe the company changed its decision at the last minute after TODAY 's revelations yesterday . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , she changed her mind at the last moment . |
| 7 | Denying his guilt to the last , he said he did n't bear his wife any ill will . |
| 8 | He always has his party on the last free night before production . ’ |
| 9 | THE former chairman of the GLC 's Police Committee and member of Ken Livingstone 's municipal revolutionary guard , Boateng , 40 , has risen rapidly since gaining his seat at the last election . |
| 10 | He was educated at home , and at the King Jan Sobieski Gymnasium in Cracow , then at the Jagiellonian University , where he studied physics , mathematics , and philosophy , gaining his doctorate in the last subject ‘ with the highest imperial honours ’ in 1908 . |
| 11 | The appellant was anxious for the matter to be dealt with in the magistrates ' court , but his accomplice elected to be tried in the Crown Court , but changed his plea at the last minute . |
| 12 | Paul 's unease on the back nine was critical , and there were other points : Nick changed his putter at the last minute . |
| 13 | Once a boy was almost carted away but the Headmaster changed his mind at the last moment . |
| 14 | How have you been justifying your existence in the last twenty-four hours and can you name the guilty man ? ’ |
| 15 | Even ratting contests and prize-fights seemed to lose their appeal in the last quarter of the century . |
| 16 | Realising its error at the last minute , the magazine just managed to insert a back-page acknowledgement of its gaffe but not to correct the offending caption . |
| 17 | Indonesia was elected to chair the NAM for the period from 1992 to 1995 , and it was announced on Sept. 22 that the Indonesian capital Jakarta would host the 10th summit of the movement 's heads of state in 1992 , Nicaragua having withdrawn its application at the last moment . |
| 18 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 19 | I put my hand on the last page , and hesitated . |
| 20 | Prehistoric archaeology has immensely broadened its approach over the last twenty years . |
| 21 | Though the single-break flat-lidded coffin had made its entrance in the last quarter of the sixteenth century — the lead shell of Lady Elizabeth Howard ( d.1591 ) with appliqué lettering at Withyham , Sussex , is of this type , as is the pictorial representation of Sir Henry Unton 's 1596 coffin in the Unton portrait at the National Portrait Gallery , as well as a small sculptural representation of a coffin on the 1615 mural monument to Susan Kinges at Morston , Norfolk — the single-break gable-lidded shell seems to have been more popular . |
| 22 | Social work has begun to evaluate its effectiveness in the last fifty years , and Sheldon ( 1986 ) has described two separate waves of reviews and researches . |
| 23 | Macdonald tried unsuccessfully to find a magistrate to receive his oath at the last minute , then sent his papers to Edinburgh , where Secretary of State and Master of Stair Sir John Dalrymple suppressed them . |
| 24 | Lawrence , who fractured his kneecap on the last day of the final test in Wellington , arrived at Gatwick airport this morning . |
| 25 | Michael Duffy , the Province 's No. 1 ranked amateur , sealed his place in the Last 16 with a sparkling 127 clearance in the fourth frame of his match against Colin Sewell . |
| 26 | I shake my head and trawl my spoon through the last of my soup . |
| 27 | I bided my timing till the last , then , Gypsy Rose Lee-like , flung off my good nap coat to reveal all . |
| 28 | They have suffered a few setbacks since clinching their place in the last four , including a midweek League Cup semi-final knockout by Coleraine . |
| 29 | The vast 100ft gallery allowed one to move from each painting as from event to event , marking its relation to the last . |
| 30 | Above : Despite its size , the Honey Gourami will defend its nest to the last . |