Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] in the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , given the opposition in the last few matches they ve not done too bad . |
| 2 | Nick Sparrow of ICM believes Labour 's tax plans and the ‘ Trojan horse ’ fear — that a vote for the Liberal Democrats might let in Labour — helped the Tories in the last 24 hours . |
| 3 | They were unable to shake off the Searle brothers after 1,000m and , rowing like men inspired , the Molesey pair overwhelmed the champions in the last 500m to finish some 2½ lengths ahead . |
| 4 | I visited the Centre in the last month and was impressed by the systematic approach of the Centre . |
| 5 | The crew , after everyone else had left , tidied away into secure lockers every movable piece of equipment and goods , and then joined the actors in the last waiting bus . |
| 6 | Having said that I would have thought hed be favourite — being the only English manager to win the league in the last 8 years or so ( other being Kendall ) . |
| 7 | Somebody very distinguished had played the part in the last London production . |
| 8 | ‘ We hit the post in the last minute . |
| 9 | He told delegates : ‘ A lot of good people , good socialists have been deluded into joining the SNP in the last few years because they thought that was the best way to defeat the Tory government . |
| 10 | In the next chapters we shall look at how scientific education , tending to dogmatism in its elementary stages at least , and the rise of physics as the leading science , affected the way people saw the world in the last decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | As a result we can observe the emergence in the last decades of the nineteenth century of a working-class culture whose prevailing tone was not one of political combativity , and yet which had firm moral standards of its own . |
| 12 | His son , Laurent , then aged 13 , completed the colouring in the last two books . |
| 13 | Northampton came close to winning the game in the last five minutes when Walden drove a fierce shot against the crossbar , ‘ making a mark which it will take a paintbrush to efface ’ . |
| 14 | I did , but possibly too strong a word , but certainly I think erm , I think the struggle in the last couple of years with regard to the parish council , has been to , to actually introduce it to people 's perception as of anything but importance . |
| 15 | The Dutch were silver medallists last time and England have taken the bronze in the last two events . |
| 16 | The organisers have accordingly taken the opportunity in the last few rooms to explore a second although only tenuously related theme , that of the possible influence of Leonardo and Milanese art on Venice at the beginning of the sixteenth century . |
| 17 | And , with a little nod , he followed one of the paramedics out to join the co-pilot in the last of the ambulances . |
| 18 | The possibility of such interventions may undermine management 's negotiating position and has sometimes meant that the autonomy of the bargaining machinery is more apparent than real : the government rather than management becomes the interlocutor in the last instance . |
| 19 | Daniel 7:10 had spoken of the stream of fire issuing from the throne of God , and this too is picked up in one of the Qumran hymns which describe the molten river of judgment that will befall the world in the last day ( I QH 3:28ff ) Probably this idea was in John 's mind . |
| 20 | Emma Nicholson 's Private Member 's Bill against hackers , which failed to make the grade in the last session of Parliament , required anyone who entered a computer to his or anyone else 's advantage , or to another 's prejudice , to be charged with a serious offence , with a maximum penalty of 10 years . |
| 21 | THE cricket season it would appear is back to front with the excellent weather coming late in the summer and the two principal magazines which cover the sport , only hitting the newsstands in the last couple of weeks . |
| 22 | THE cricket season it would appear is back to front with the excellent weather coming late in the summer and the two principal magazines which cover the sport , only hitting the news-stands in the last couple of weeks . |
| 23 | Since perfect learning of a new language or dialect is very rare beyond the age of , say , fourteen , ( see the discussion in the last section ; also Trudgill 1986 : 34 ; Romaine 1984 : 190ff ) , the usual result is that S 's personal variety shows some features of V1 ( the variety of S 's " native " community ) and some features of V2 . |
| 24 | Die Gruenen had dropped below the 5 per cent needed to enter the Bundestag in the last polls . |
| 25 | But it was Arsenal , where Chapman had spent his longest period as manager , who held the limelight in the last years of peace . |