Example sentences of "[verb] [art] last [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The typical justification for undergraduate courses involves the last of the issues related to academic courses : the distinction between ‘ content ’ and ‘ process ’ . |
| 2 | The other girl laid the last of the flowers in position , and slammed the van doors shut . |
| 3 | The police do n't think we 've heard the last of the attackers who seem prepared to endanger many lives in an attempt to reach their targets . |
| 4 | WELL THERE GOES THE LAST OF THE MEALS ON WHEELS . |
| 5 | Devouring the last of the berries were redwing , too . |
| 6 | They were passing the last of the houses now . |
| 7 | China has just freed the last of the students jailed after the pro-democracy demonstrations four years ago , and this is seen as a sign of wanting improved relations with the west . |
| 8 | Defence cut-backs have seen the last of the choppers in a resident form and the SAAF now maintains a Forward Air Force Command Post with a basic infra-structure to handle SAAF operations from the airport , should they be required . |
| 9 | I kept making the point on Saturday here at Lane Martin , that I did n't think that erm we 'd had the last of the goals as they kept er popping in at both ends , and I 'm sure though we 've had three with a little over half an hour played here , we have n't seen the last of the goals here either . |
| 10 | I kept making the point on Saturday here at Lane Martin , that I did n't think that erm we 'd had the last of the goals as they kept er popping in at both ends , and I 'm sure though we 've had three with a little over half an hour played here , we have n't seen the last of the goals here either . |
| 11 | It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits . |
| 12 | Soon she would have to use the last of the rushes . |
| 13 | ‘ We had better get her away from here , ’ said the Medjay healer , removing the last of the flies and quickly wrapping the corpse in a linen sheet before any more could settle . |
| 14 | Julie pointed out with devastating logic as she corrected the last of the school-books piled up on the large oak refectory table in front of her . |
| 15 | He watched the last of the brothers slip away still awed and silent through the cloister , and followed with a glance the swirl of Robert Bossu 's crimson skirts as he crossed the court with his two attendants at his heels . |
| 16 | Ronnie therefore had to finish it on site , spending the best part of a week-end in the palace perfecting the pattern march and joining the last of the pieces together . |
| 17 | As she collapsed she saw the last of the assassins crumple , his body lifted once then once again as the shells ripped into him . |
| 18 | Kim turned away , taking the last of the objects from the bag and setting it down on the bedside table . |
| 19 | Yesterday 's clear-out removed the last of the hardliners from the politburo . |
| 20 | We pack in the fishing ; Odd-Knut pronounces the last of the worms dead and suggests we all come back for another go in April . |
| 21 | It was during this period that savage Turkish reprisals against Balkan nationalist movements gave the last of the sultans an unsavoury reputation for religious persecution which has coloured the writings of some western historians in their assessment of the whole record of the Ottoman empire . |
| 22 | Cinema-goers in the North East gave THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS a warm reception . |
| 23 | We had passed the last of the houses and were driving in grey early-morning light through a landscape of scorched earth , blackened trees . |
| 24 | David was in his room washing his hands , having just finished the last of the medicals , and he turned from the sink as Rachel knocked and entered . |
| 25 | Wayne was driving now as they left the last of the houses behind , following the lake shore for a while until the wooded hillside of the Step rose up and screened it from their sight . |
| 26 | The vigour and profundity of the Old Testament 's own challenge is at once realized when we recall how far the ruins of Jericho are from Eden , or from that remarkable declaration of faith in Genesis 1 , and how completely the smoke of its destruction hides the last of the promises given to Abraham in Genesis 12 . |
| 27 | Hoare was born in Southampton , and received education at no fewer than three Catholic establishments , leaving the last with an arts degree and red spiky hair . |
| 28 | She had the last of the shirts pegged to the frame . |
| 29 | Here , have the last of the eggs . |
| 30 | It was only when everyone was thinking of bed and Jean and Tina had gone off to give their respective babies their last feeds and Hilda was in the kitchen clearing the last of the dishes , that Bruce said , ‘ Would anyone like a nightcap ? ’ |