Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a spectator sport where young men would show their courage by standing in the path of the maddened bull and then leaping side at the last moment . |
| 2 | In all four countries shown in the chart , starts fell in the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 3 | For the last year of his life he suffered from myeloma , a form of bone cancer , and entered hospital for the last time in July where he made friends with another patient who , unfortunately , soon died . |
| 4 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 5 | Three weeks hence , The Canadian will head west for the last time . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State may withhold payment of the last 15% of the grant amount until he has accepted that the work of the Project has been completed . |
| 7 | Two of the bigger boys from Thorpe Street had once tried to outswing him for a dare , but Barry Lock had turned chicken at the last minute and Valance Fraser , who fancied himself as the cock of the street , had managed only a partial swing that left him dangling by his arms in the dirt . |
| 8 | IAN RUSH believes Kenny Dalglish made a terrible mistake when he walked tearfully out of the Liverpool dressing room for the last time . |
| 9 | There are few stocks on the London Exchange that have beaten the performance of transaction processing software specialist Gresham Telecomputing Plc : selling for just 14 pence last June , they added ninepence in the last day 's trading before Easter , to close at 143 pence . |
| 10 | A fountain pen is a writing instrument , metonymically ‘ fountain ’ relative to its reservoir , non-dip implicitly in its connotation , constituting a magnetic focus of cascading libido to the last drop , paradigmatically self-dipping in a Reichian sense . |
| 11 | Nor does it matter whether the tenant may give notice after the last date for service of a rent review notice ( Coventry CC v J Hepworth & Son Ltd ( 1982 ) 265 EG 608 ) or at a time which coincides with time during which a landlord may serve such a notice ( Legal & General Assurance ( Pension Management ) Ltd v Cheshire CC ) . |
| 12 | As Joe walked away he felt that he had said goodbye to the last phase of his youth , and that his storm of weeping had swept him into manhood and away from all connection with the woman back in that room . |
| 13 | The extra name was written by hand on the scorecard , which cost 10 centimes but did n't disclaim responsibility for the last wicket to fall ! |
| 14 | One idea is to place a cereal like cornflakes round it and then add milk at the last moment before producing it . |
| 15 | We have n't had overtime for the last couple of weeks . |
| 16 | He was there for some time , and was with her when she regained consciousness for the last time . ’ |
| 17 | You have hoarded wealth in the last days . |
| 18 | Marist replied with a try and two penalties by Ian Vernon , who went desperately close to clinching victory in the last minute of the game when a penalty hit an upright . |
| 19 | Marist replied with a try and two penalties by Ian Vernon , who went desperately close to clinching victory in the last minute of the game when a penalty hit an upright . |
| 20 | Picking up the story thirty years on , Peter Bogdanovich 's eagerly anticipated sequel to THE LAST PICTURE SHOW substitutes elegiac lament with a wry comedy of the trials and absurdities of disillusioned middle-age . |
| 21 | The Waterloo Band will sound retreat for the last time tomorrow . |
| 22 | We 've got time before the last flight . ’ |
| 23 | Your only option when sending money at the last minute to arrive by Christmas is to use the banks ' electronic money transfer services which take from 24 hours to around five days depending on the bank and whether you use an express transfer . |
| 24 | Your only option when sending money at the last minute to arrive by Christmas is to use the banks ' electronic money transfer services which take from 24 hours to around five days depending on the bank and whether you use an express transfer . |
| 25 | Your only option when sending money at the last minute to arrive by Christmas is to use the banks ' electronic money transfer services which take from 24 hours to around five days depending on the bank and whether you use an express transfer . |
| 26 | The springtime air over the Arctic region has become cleaner in the last decade as a result of anti-pollution measures introduced in Europe , North America and the former Soviet Union , researchers have discovered . |
| 27 | Tithonus ' most emphatic pleading for death takes place in the last stanza . |
| 28 | It was getting time for the last bus across London Bridge for the District Line . |
| 29 | The shop , now double the size it was a year ago , was ‘ very healthily up ’ , and could now take advantage of the last minute frenzy by being able to accommodate more people inside . |
| 30 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |