Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | A word of explanation may be needed in regard to the last two categories . |
| 2 | But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks . |
| 3 | So in the end he took to pointing at the last and most precious of " the possessions " … tiger-skins , bookcases full of elevating and instructional volumes , embroidered samplers , teasets of bone china , humidors and candlesticks , mounted elephants ' feet , and rowing-oars with names of college eights inscribed in gilt paint ; the ladies were instructed to improvise sandbags out of linen sheets and pillowslips and fine lace tablecloths . |
| 4 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
| 5 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |
| 6 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |