Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE furnace which powered the last bastion of North Wales 's once-mighty steel industry was last night on its way to China . |
| 2 | But there was also an exhilaration in the atmosphere of conspiracy and violence which characterised the last years of his childhood . |
| 3 | Several of you are already subscribed twice in this way — as a result of the confusion which occured the last time the Oxford mailer was messed about with . |
| 4 | Thank you for the compliment you paid the last edition of Rural Wales . |
| 5 | mummy he had the last cherry bakewell |
| 6 | The large urban local authorities which remain the last bastion of Labour power have tried to undercut New Right attacks by improving the efficiency and quality of their services , and becoming more responsive to their users ( Fenwick 1989 ; Young 1991 ) . |
| 7 | eg. ( SELF , UP , DOWN ) would cause the model to first look at the user who caused the last transition for a possible match , followed by a search up the user tree and then down the tree . |
| 8 | There was no water , though , for an artificial Thames ; and the whole relic , presently used as a backdrop for the film of A Passage to India , is patrolled by a pensioner who served the last war in South Shields . |
| 9 | .. When , at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon we rounded the last promontory which separated us from what was once the magnificent panorama of St Pierre , we suddenly perceived at the opposite extremity of the roadstead the Riviere Blanche with its crest of vapour , rushing madly into the sea . |
| 10 | It takes at least five Americans to write a book erm they 're all multi- authored volumes erm for , for most of your purposes , for almost all your purposes er and certainly for basic reading for , for lectures and , and tutorials it really does n't matter which one you read erm there are , I mean there are in the library I think the last time I counted them about twenty five or thirty general textbooks on American politics , it does n't really matter er which one you read . |
| 11 | From the second half of the 1960s , the aims of these new sectors and the tensions between them and the Francoist old guard would contribute to the build-up of pressure for democracy which characterized the last decade of Franco 's life . |
| 12 | However , care should be exercised in the use of dictionaries of surnames , because none is quite infallible and some entries , in even the best of them , can be positively misleading , as the detailed example which forms the last section of this chapter demonstrates . |
| 13 | Chairman , he wo n't have to , it 's like this , he wo n't have to worry as they did when the televisions which caused the last fire in the House of Commons , I mean , set fire to them and er , caused that one . |
| 14 | ‘ I remember the hangover I had the last time I went on the tiles with you , and tomorrow I have to ply squash at nine . |
| 15 | I hope that , in the first session of the next parliament , there will be less of the constant bickering and exchange of insults which marred the last sessions of the previous House of Commons . |
| 16 | The 400 metre hurdles were close with Ian Neely just beating Darren Gallagher who hit the last hurdle . |
| 17 | Set in a WWI officer 's prisoner of war camp it shows the last veneers of a chivalrous , civilised Europe being ripped away by the black talons of mechanised war . |
| 18 | Only the doctor who attended the last illness is required to certify when someone dies in the hospital and a post mortem has been carried out and the results known to the doctor . |
| 19 | On Thursday , no , on Thursday we get the last period off , then we come home , home early on Thursday , Monday 's Bank holiday so we do n't have the school any school and erm , one day in May you 're back with |
| 20 | A couple who bought the last wedding ring in a Darlington jeweller 's shop celebrated their 50th anniversary this week . |
| 21 | I do n't think it is the same ones we had the last time . |
| 22 | There was certainly no repeat of the violent confrontations which marred the last Springboks ' tour in 1970 as only a group of about 70 chanting protesters stood outside the ground . |