Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the last [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( If you tried to swap the last column of a table without doing so you would jumble up your text ) |
| 2 | The two finishing holes are designed to test the last reserves of the golfer 's confidence . |
| 3 | And er , so she said she , she wants to take the last couple of days away |
| 4 | The corpse road avoided the villages along the route for fear that the spirit of the dead should be enticed to return , a fear that in fact stemmed from Norse mythology , in which the corpse way was thought to mirror the last journey of the soul from the earth into the underworld . |
| 5 | Attempting to crank the last iota of abandonment out of an intrinsically empty and mechanical experience . |
| 6 | But even if this tape is going to record the last speech of somebody famous and it did n't get and therefore they could n't record it , that is co , the consequence of a delay , you know , a fall of snow or our vehicle breaking down or something not being done , or missed some in human , some human error , it 's not our , we do n't lay , we 'll give , we 'll insure or offer transit liability on the value of the goods providing you 've got additional full transit liability with us , but we wo n't for the loss of business because you did n't get it . |
| 7 | The rider now aims to complete the last part of the turning routine literally by spinning the back of the machine around — the art of rear wheel steering which can begin with as little as 800rpm on the tacho ( 500 revs to around 13,000 ) . |
| 8 | Politicians , however , were quite capable of making any assistance look somewhat larger than life and thus attempt to reap the last ounce of voter gratitude for their services . |
| 9 | In the final stages of the journey from river mud to glittering metal , gold is treated to remove the last stages of Garrimpo mercury , then it becomes pure , but not innocent . |
| 10 | Or you could be sensible and stop trying to squeeze the last drop of current from the transformer ! |
| 11 | I do remember we 'd already put his full name on the car and had to remove the last part of it . ’ |
| 12 | Their single-minded preoccupation , you see , is to hang on to their present decade and hold off the Rubicon-crossing birthday beyond which grandmotherhood and whiskered chins threaten to throttle the last vestiges of good-time glamour . |
| 13 | Like the wind that guttered and blew out the candles , a bloodied man had broken through the dancers ' joy to break the glittering ball into dark fragments , yet still some few couples could not bear to relinquish the last moments of peace . |
| 14 | They believed that anything could be obtained by force and were determined to exact the last drop of blood . |
| 15 | The garden has been planned to make the last amount of work for those who maintain it : John himself ; his father , who is now 80 and can work for only short periods ; Mr Broughton , who clips the hedges , and Patricia who weeds . |
| 16 | And it may have been pertinent that in the major games ( and Bay of Plenty and Manawatu might rank only slightly below the status ) the home sides tended to dominate the last quarter of each game . |