Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [noun] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter , the meaningless game produced little , only a fine save from Mathers denying Mike Galloway in the last minute before the Jungle in its present form shut its gates . |
| 2 | ‘ Pain in the housing market should finally kill off the British obsession with housing which has so distorted resource allocation in the last 25 years . |
| 3 | Heathcliff visits Catherine for the last time |
| 4 | Whatever happens , the Scot , who meets Dennis Taylor in the last 16 , is guaranteed to leapfrog back over Jimmy White into first place on the provisional world ranking list . |
| 5 | A spokesman said the Longmont , Colorado-based firm ran in the black in the first two quarters but the colour turned blood red in the last half , particularly the third quarter . |
| 6 | ‘ We have made very consistent efforts to brand Phaidon books over the last few years , putting the Phaidon name on the front and back of all our books as a brand image of quality , ’ he said . |
| 7 | She had been amassing clothing coupons for the last six months and was determined that Constance would have a magnificent dress from one of the London stores . |
| 8 | The fascinating feature of the survey is the marked change of sentiment towards methods of buying life cover in the last year . |
| 9 | He is the fifth manager to leave Crewe Park in the last two years following in the footsteps of Paul O'Gara , Terry Nicholson , Jack Walsh and Sammy Watson , who all parted company with the club last season . |
| 10 | Sir : I am writing first to congratulate you all on an excellent magazine , I have been reading Computer magazines for the last 10 years and can honestly say that Practical PC is the most informative and enjoyable one to date . |
| 11 | The West Indians have ruled Test cricket for the last 15 years through a succession of brilliant fast bowlers and batsmen . |
| 12 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 13 | ‘ There is nothing so disagreeable , ’ asserts Mrs Proudie in The Last Chronicle of Barset , ‘ as a lot of idle priests . ’ |
| 14 | Claire Clairmont saw Lord Byron for the last time in November 1821 , when her carriage was edged off the road outside Empoli by his magnificent coach and four with its wagon train and travelling menagerie . |
| 15 | BRITISH Pathe News Library , the film newsreel archive which chronicled world events of the last 100 years , has been acquired for $16m by Parkfield Group , the mini conglomerate . |
| 16 | However , it would be wrong to say that the only cases of departure from putting tonic stress on the last lexical word were cases of contrast or emphasis . |
| 17 | ‘ People have got used to England winning line-out balls over the last few years . |
| 18 | More than two in five companies have changed their method of obtaining company cars in the last 10 years , says the survey , and of these , half changed to contract hire . |
| 19 | His team just escaped relegation from Division One but after a disastrous run at the start of the following season , he left Maine Road for the last time . |
| 20 | He had been feeling sick ever since they left the main junction and climbed into the joggling , jolting line train for the last lap of their journey , but the sudden whistle had finished him . |
| 21 | The scheme , along with other CAP reform details on sheep and suckler cow quota , as well as new stocking density calculations , was explained to the meeting by a senior Meat and Livestock Commission economist , Mrs Lesley Greene , who has been monitoring CAP changes for the last six months . |
| 22 | It may also be necessary to begin keyboard skills in the last year of primary school and to continue this as required at the secondary level . |
| 23 | The question of how quickly and how voluntarily this process of ‘ Protestantization ’ was accomplished has seriously divided Reformation historians over the last thirty years ; it will be discussed in detail in Chapter 6 . |
| 24 | The first or basic text is this , sung by Bilbo as he leaves Bag End for the last time : |