Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 2 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |
| 3 | They ca n't gazump you at the last minute cos it makes |
| 4 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 5 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 6 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 7 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 8 | He did n't catch us until the last peak , Creag nan Damh , where a number of ridge-walkers were gathered , basking in the delight of the afternoon and resting on their laurels after a mammoth expedition . |
| 9 | I can not chuck them at the last minute . |
| 10 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 11 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 12 | Mota , from Portugal , suffered yet again with a mysterious stomach complaint , which affected her during the last world championships . |
| 13 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 14 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 15 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 16 | You still owe me from the last time . |
| 17 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
| 18 | What has frankly surprised me about the last decade is the way in which social scientists who make no claim to a Christian profession have been talking openly about the relevance of religious values to our current economic problems in the Western world . |
| 19 | That leads me to the last question , ground ( 7 ) . |
| 20 | This leads me to the last determinant of transmission teaching I want to explore here : that of teacher isolation . |
| 21 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 22 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 23 | Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year . |
| 24 | Thomasino Boyd , who joined us for the last couple of years , and before that ( in Scots accent ) Doogie Rae . |
| 25 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 26 | He would meet me off the last train … . |
| 27 | In my maths in school we just finished them on the last day . |
| 28 | We betrayed the Arabs over the Balfa declaration , we betrayed them after they cleared Africa and the Middle East under Lawrence , we betrayed them in the last war when they backed our rear and allowed the ninth army , and I was there , to join the eighth army and get out , and directly the last war was over , we betrayed them again — there 's a complete betrayal of the Arabs in the Middle East . |
| 29 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 30 | Certainly , salmon seem to use smell to guide them on the last stage of their journey . |