Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 2 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 3 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 4 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 5 | Not by someone else stepping in at the last moment . |
| 6 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 7 | Mum is singing along with the last hymn . |
| 8 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 9 | This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years . |
| 10 | The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war . |
| 11 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 12 | It remains to be seen whether the special provision built up over the last decade will survive what may be the collapse of pre-vocational college-based education . |
| 13 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 14 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 15 | It hit it hit Ian Stringfellow last week and caused Nicky Platten now to pull out at the last minute last night . |
| 16 | Now I think it 's a bit rich t to slam the Liberals for walking out on the last debate because the Tories did n't attend the Health Trust Select Committee which Council set up . |
| 17 | ( Research and development split between the two lines — currently 50–50 — will soon tip the balance in favour of AViiON , since three years ' worth of products are expected to be squeezed out of the last round of investment in the proprietary line . ) |
| 18 | THEY , I predict , will fall back on the last line of defence . |
| 19 | Try explaining it to Ashley as he sits in the back of the minibus watching the streets of Salzburg slip by for the last time as — filming finished — we begin the journey back home . |
| 20 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 21 | The basic recipe is a reduction of white wine and brown fond de veau lié with a julienne of gherkins and mustard stirred in at the last moment . |
| 22 | However , with Colin Dick still on his way home from Australia , Bell fills in as the last man in defence with Alan Simpson and Michael Rainey in the centre . |
| 23 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 24 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 25 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 26 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 27 | Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 . |
| 28 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 29 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 30 | It 's just built up over the last coupla years really . |