Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the last [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had settled already on the mounds still lying heaped on the field , white as quicklime ; flesh not yet cold and consigned already to ashes ; bone , juice , and fibre still consuming its fuel , deflating from its last action ; sponging off the last image and led already to dust . |
| 2 | Results in the £1,000 Hathaway fours at the Morrison Centre showed that three games were won with the last bowl and another finished all square in a very competitive tournament . |
| 3 | The last few questions were omitted from the last Journal and are given here . |
| 4 | The Druids won on the last occasion and have retained the trophy at their Henley headquarters . |
| 5 | This is the opportunity for senior managers to endorse warnings for vigilance or diligence , which they do occasionally , and for sergeants to review both the incidents which occurred on the last shift and the matters which need special attention on the present one . |
| 6 | but , erm , she was hoping to come to the meeting this evening , but she phoned at the last minute and said she could n't make it , but erm , I do n't know if it would be more appropriate perhaps for the schools groups to get in touch with her and I |
| 7 | The borough MPs were very different from their county colleagues , and only thirty-seven of the eighty-six from English boroughs even lived in the same towns ; many were carpet-bagging lawyers , induced to stand at the last moment and at the expense of Central Office . |
| 8 | The doctor came for the last time and said , ‘ Yes , he 's going now . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But we are proud of what we have done in the last year and a half . ’ |
| 10 | She came to the last button and , plucking up all her courage , slipped the dress off her shoulders and let it drop to the floor . |
| 11 | His three customers on the plane were a woman who had changed her travel plans at the last minute and a married couple starting a world tour . |
| 12 | It ran straight , veered at the last moment and dropped . |
| 13 | Remarkably , they were saved at the last moment and rebuilt , now forming a group of pleasant dwellings . |
| 14 | The Chief Officer said quite clearly last er last time that the decisions were decisions for members and members came up with a view last time that we should not remove that whole time crew from St Albans which was the one firm decision that was made at the last meeting and what Councillor is now suggesting that we should take out those twenty eight whole time fire fighters and then try and give us ten back if we 're lucky . |
| 15 | Having outlived Dean and Adams , Hopper indulged himself during the early seventies in autobiographical ego trips that nobody went to see like The Last Movie and The American Dreamer . |
| 16 | After much deliberation and in great sorrow , the family of Don Antonio Beatillo , learned laureate and doctor , glory of the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Naples , have resolved themselves to appeal against the last will and testament of their beloved and revered father , made in January last year , as being composed by the deceased when not in his right mind . ’ |
| 17 | Brearley did his best , but four were still needed off the last ball and he could manage only a single . |
| 18 | These later changes have all occurred in the last century and the pace of change is ever quickening . |
| 19 | Always lying handy as Coco Dancer led for most of the trip , Limeridge took up the running from Coco Dancer going to the last fence and at this stage was hotly pursued by the favourite Canute Express . |
| 20 | " Mr. Osborne stated that he and Mr. Stewart met as requested by the last meeting and made a selection of Thirty-six Books a list of which he had now pleasure of laying before the Meeting for their approval , but the Meeting found that they would need to curtail the list to Twentythree so as not to exceed the ammount of two pounds . " |
| 21 | The printer will stop after the last row and not move the paper . |
| 22 | Rangers paid a heavy price for a similar gaols leak in the last round and now only a win in Turkey can take United through . |
| 23 | Is it not a fact that most of the jobs lost have been in industries belonging to the last century and that most of the jobs gained are in industries with a bright future ? |
| 24 | Also , many new methods for analysing maps have been developed in the last decade and the UK is a world leader in this field of spatial statistics . |
| 25 | He argues that the convention partners should affirm the broad principles of the scheme for a devolved Scottish parliament in the UK agreed before the last election and move on to adopt an educational role . |
| 26 | ‘ within the limits of an uncontrolled zebra crossing ’ This point is proved with the last point and mention can be made that the crossing was not controlled . |
| 27 | ‘ Now we 'll begin again , ’ said the CEO , ‘ and we will bury all the thinking we were doing in the last meeting and approach everything from a new angle . |
| 28 | Those who have some knowledge of railway history will recall what was known in the last century and in the early years of this century as ’ the railway interest ’ . |
| 29 | If precedes , as in ‘ Boston ’ , a final syllabic nasal is less frequent , while clusters formed by nasal + plosive + syllabic nasal are very unusual : thus ‘ Minton ’ , ‘ lantern ’ , ‘ London ’ , ‘ abandon ’ will normally have in the last syllable and be pronounced , , , . |
| 30 | In the conventional view , Britain , once a legend throughout the world for its stolid , peaceable , and harmonious character , has experienced in the last decade and a half an alien and shocking advent of unprecedented incivility and disorder . |