Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the last of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training . |
| 2 | This extraordinary story was ruthlessly edited down to its allotted span and eventually tucked away in the last of four hour-long programmes . |
| 3 | The Devil , wriggling out of the last of his knitted tail , wiped the shiny grease off his face and neck before strolling over . |
| 4 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 5 | Nails pulled furiously on the last of his cigarette , threw it down and stamped on it . |
| 6 | We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary . |
| 7 | Three famous golf links lay below Patrick as he stood there in the last of the daylight — Royal Cinque Ports , Royal St. George 's and Prince 's . |