Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Tour has been won twice on the last stage . |
| 32 | This we mentioned briefly in the last chapter . |
| 33 | Prices have fallen steeply in the last year , and while this year 's drop will not be so dramatic , prices will continue to fall . |
| 34 | Swanage suffered badly during the last war , chiefly from ‘ tip-and-run ’ raids by bombers swooping in from the sea . |
| 35 | ‘ But suppose , ’ his voice lingered sarcastically on the last word , ‘ I do n't want to be out of your life ? ’ |
| 36 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 37 | In England , lavender was grown commercially until the last war in Surrey and in Kent ; now it is only grown in Norfolk , near Norwich . |
| 38 | The basic recipe is a reduction of white wine and brown fond de veau lié with a julienne of gherkins and mustard stirred in at the last moment . |
| 39 | However , with Colin Dick still on his way home from Australia , Bell fills in as the last man in defence with Alan Simpson and Michael Rainey in the centre . |
| 40 | This smaller and shyer animal once ranged from the Spanish Sierra Nevada to the Urals , but has suffered greatly in the last century from hunting and the disturbance of agricultural development . |
| 41 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 42 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 43 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 44 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 45 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 46 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 47 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 48 | The flight from Bahrain , with 263 people on board , veered away at the last moment , skimmed just 80ft above rush-hour traffic and narrowly missed another hotel before the landing was aborted . |
| 49 | I should say that I , I came away from the last meeting with an enormous list of things to do , and I have n't managed to do them all , but they 'll emerge as we go through , erm , developments Perth , Perth if inter interrupt me |
| 50 | Research into the form and content of user interfaces for GIS has accelerated rapidly in the last couple of years . |
| 51 | On may 3 it had caused sufficient problems to be pushed home on the last train of the day from Wroxham . |
| 52 | The route in question was at Swanage and not at all difficult — getting its HVS grade for the seriousness of the climbing and not its difficulty and I 've certainly done harder in the last month . |
| 53 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
| 54 | Would it have anything to do with the warm weather , as the tank temperature has risen slightly over the last couple of weeks . |
| 55 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 56 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 57 | It 's just built up over the last coupla years really . |
| 58 | Sociology has expanded enormously over the last decade in terms of the body of significant literature . |
| 59 | The Common Good Fund and they , they had you know all I mean you know they had all feelers out for all , all the things , so there are a couple of dates which came up in the last meeting erm for further pilots and then the intention is to just go ahead from |
| 60 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |