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Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand .
2	She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod .
3	But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year .
4	Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ?
5	yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two
6	If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning .
7	But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season .
8	Only we I do n't , I do n't know about you but I do n't want to leave it until the last minute
9	And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’
10	And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’
11	We came very close to doing it at the last election .
12	Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen .
13	IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’
14	Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on !
15	You could use it er , in the reverse of the way that the theory suggests , which you can actually leave it on the last diary page where you have something on your to do list that you have n't completed .
16	Manager Joe Royle said : ‘ We will leave it until the last minute to give him every chance . ’
17	‘ There 's no doubt I had chances to nail it in the last set , but you 've got to hand it to Dennis .
18	Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex .
19	The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 .
20	Begin what seems to be a front kick , then change it at the last moment into a high roundhouse kick .
21	Booth did it in the last minute , slipping the ball home after Lee Richardson , an outstanding performer in the Aberdeen midfield , had struck the post with a clever shot made possible when Rhodes miskicked .
22	We 'll put it as the last item .
23	And yet another client of mine who 's a teacher , she said oh yeah she said it 's lovely , she said I suppose I ought to do the marking and all that at the beginning she said but I leave it , she said , and I sometimes do it in the last week .
24	He could now lose it on the last ball !
25	But Ferguson insisted : ‘ Let me make one thing crystal clear — Manchester United wo n't bottle it on the last lap of the championship .
26	Not too long — I generally leave it to the last minute .
27	If you leave it til the last minute and you question spot , you might end up in a sticky situation How many people here have failed an exam ?
28	And if you leave it until the last minute , so what ?
29	As long as er I keep finding places that I have n't , you know thi this is leaving it to the la I have n't left it till the last minute , but all las la you know I keep looking at it and thinking well
30	Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them .