Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] to the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kneeling in front of the safe in his first-floor office at Park Crescent , headquarters of the Secret Service , Tweed turned the dial to the last numbers of the combination lock , hauled open the door . |
| 2 | ‘ If we apply the levies to the last full financial year , they would have raised almost £2million£1.6m generated by transfers and £360,000 from prize money . ’ |
| 3 | In many cases he had left the unions to the last minute and missed the relevant conferences anyway . |
| 4 | The first team to get the matchbox to the last person is the winner . |
| 5 | Busy bureaucrats , accountants , division chiefs and so on can always check the budget to the last dollar , suggest improvements to the ‘ organigram ’ of the project , add a foreign-training component and so on . |