Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Not by someone else stepping in at the last moment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mum is singing along with the last hymn . |
| 9 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 10 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 11 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 12 | Resettlement outside the region should be considered only in the last resort . |
| 13 | This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 17 | The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It hit it hit Ian Stringfellow last week and caused Nicky Platten now to pull out at the last minute last night . |
| 25 | Now I think it 's a bit rich t to slam the Liberals for walking out on the last debate because the Tories did n't attend the Health Trust Select Committee which Council set up . |
| 26 | ( Research and development split between the two lines — currently 50–50 — will soon tip the balance in favour of AViiON , since three years ' worth of products are expected to be squeezed out of the last round of investment in the proprietary line . ) |
| 27 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 28 | THEY , I predict , will fall back on the last line of defence . |
| 29 | A thousand people have come here in the last year and another thousand are expected in the next year . |
| 30 | Try explaining it to Ashley as he sits in the back of the minibus watching the streets of Salzburg slip by for the last time as — filming finished — we begin the journey back home . |