Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | THEY , I predict , will fall back on the last line of defence . |
| 4 | The Tour has been won twice on the last stage . |
| 5 | ‘ But suppose , ’ his voice lingered sarcastically on the last word , ‘ I do n't want to be out of your life ? ’ |
| 6 | On may 3 it had caused sufficient problems to be pushed home on the last train of the day from Wroxham . |
| 7 | Having to get up very early in the mornings he tended to be in bed by the time she arrived home on the last bus from Bath . |
| 8 | He was sitting alone , off to one side , watching a historical simularity , shipped in on the last supply drone , that vas playing in the centre of the room . |
| 9 | But , thanks to the kindness of a lady in the petrol depot who agreed to phone our host when a delivery was about to be made and where , we eventually refuelled at about 9.00 am on Thursday we set out on the last leg of our journey . |
| 10 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |
| 11 | Yvonne Bell 's charge hit trouble when finishing second in his heat , but was back in sparkling form charging through on the last bend to win the track final by 2 9 lengths at generous odds of 6–4 . |
| 12 | As the camera pulled back on the last shot and credits were shown on the screen , the tension in the studio relaxed , replaced by an exultant mood . |
| 13 | Most of the books that had been set out on the last delivery had gone , and now more volumes were being added . |
| 14 | This chapter will show the principal trends in population distribution since the inter-war period , focusing particularly on the last couple of decades . |
| 15 | We took off on the last leg for Tromsø . |
| 16 | Moodie , suffering a bout of flu , kept up the momentum but eased off on the last lap with a minor suspension problem . |
| 17 | Let us begin by looking at the word ‘ around ’ , where the stress always falls clearly on the last syllable and the first syllable is weak . |
| 18 | A memo by a lieutenant-colonel on the staff ( whose signature is illegible ) to the Director of Military Operations at MEHQ gives an insight into what was in the pipeline for L Detachment , ‘ which went out on the last operation hurriedly and ill organised . |
| 19 | ‘ We go out on the last night , ’ said Rodney . |
| 20 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 21 | We finally gave up , agreeing that it was perhaps an old Dutch ritual performed always on the last night of a holiday . |
| 22 | YORKSHIRE today start out on the last day of their annual visit to Middlesbrough but will it also be their final championship appearance at Acklam Park ? |
| 23 | He spoke out on the last day of Labour 's Scottish conference in Inverness , which ended with the party in better spirits than organisers could have dared hope even a week ago . |
| 24 | Beating off an ambush by ‘ eighty infidels on foot ’ , he and his train headed off on the last stage of his journey through the burning plains of the Punjab towards the mighty Indian capital and the palace of the Sultan . |
| 25 | The Scottish women 's teams have been held annually on the last weekend in February since before the war , but some five years ago the male members of the SBU council decided this was unfair and established the national men 's teams held in Perth on Sunday . |