Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Seventh , however , is reined back to the point of stodginess , at least until the white-hot finale and even there one of the trumpets forgets himself in the last three bars . |
| 2 | ‘ The commission took into consideration their record over the past five years , ’ said Graham Kelly , the FA 's chief executive , ‘ but they also noted that they had taken steps to improve it over the last 18 months . ’ |
| 3 | Ruthin join them in the last four after routing Rhos on Sea 8–1 , Arwyn Pierce and Stephen Flanagan and Geraint Wyn Jones and Dave Fuller with three wins and Sid Smith and Stefan Dowitcz two . |
| 4 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 5 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 6 | Rain watched her for the last few yards , noting how the morning 's cheerfulness had been replaced by anxiety . |
| 7 | Certainly , salmon seem to use smell to guide them on the last stage of their journey . |
| 8 | Likewise , control clicking ( holding down the CTRL key while you click ) allows you to select multiple items for processing and shift clicking highlights everything from the last highlighted item to the one your pointer is over as you shift click . |
| 9 | But Faldo has reserved his most barbed comments for Alliss and the press , even though the publicity afforded him over the last 16 years has brought a £2 million home and bulging bank account worth more than £10m . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Notice the bust of Dobrovský standing in front of the charming garden house which the Nostics gave him in the last years of his life . |
| 12 | The plan is foiled but Magwitch escapes the gallows by dying in hospital , with Pip tending him to the last . |
| 13 | Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment . |
| 14 | Thus it is that the Tamar , beautiful as the nymph whose name she bears , winds her way from the rugged north coast between the hills , to be joined by the Tavy , flowing from Dartmoor to join her for the last few miles to the sea , while the luckless Torridge flows ever northward in vain pursuit of Tamara 's beauty . |
| 15 | Annabel had said as much to Father Ross the last time he had come to tea , and Father Ross had looked at her sternly over his glasses , saying that if we all understood the way the Universe was run what would there be left for God to tell us on the Last Day . |
| 16 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 17 | His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century . |
| 18 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 19 | Of the leading English contenders , Peter Marshall , Chris Walker and Del Harris made it to the last 16 . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's no doubt I had chances to nail it in the last set , but you 've got to hand it to Dennis . |
| 21 | Bessie kissed me for the last time as I held tightly to her . |
| 22 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 23 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 24 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 25 | R. H. Sherard nursed him during the last six months of his life . |