Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 2 | You find yourself hanging on to every last minute together . ’ |
| 3 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 4 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 5 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 6 | They must be taught through benevolence and sympathy ; when the necessity arises shame may be used , but fear only in the last extremity , and then ‘ with such delicacy that if possible the habit may not gather strength by the use you are constrained to make of it ’ . |
| 7 | Not by someone else stepping in at the last moment . |
| 8 | Notice how the sunset and the greeting are welded together in the last stanzas and are transformed into the endless journey and ‘ human sweetness ’ of the last three lines . |
| 9 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 10 | Mum is singing along with the last hymn . |
| 11 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 12 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 13 | Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , . |
| 14 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 15 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |
| 16 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 17 | The declaration included a decision that recourse to nuclear weapons should be considered only as a last resort ; the meeting also looked forward to the prospect of a reduction in the armed forces of a united Germany , and issued an invitation to the Warsaw Pact to sign a joint declaration with NATO on non-aggression . |
| 18 | Resettlement outside the region should be considered only in the last resort . |
| 19 | This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years . |
| 20 | Again , this is a complex notion in itself , so it is hardly surprising that some respondents found it difficult to reply to the questions : Has the conceptual map of your subject changed much in the last decade ? |
| 21 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 22 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 23 | The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war . |
| 24 | It was an old concrete pillbox built just before the last war to house a gun covering the firth , and it stuck in the sand like a big grey tooth . |
| 25 | This probably explains why menarche the age of which er menstruation begins menarche er why the age of menarche has dropped progressively in the last century from about fifteen and a half to about twelve and a half er today . |
| 26 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 27 | It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education . |
| 28 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 29 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 30 | It hit it hit Ian Stringfellow last week and caused Nicky Platten now to pull out at the last minute last night . |