Example sentences of "[verb] down [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 2 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 3 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 4 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 5 | When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them . |
| 6 | It was not until seven o'clock in the morning that Gabriel climbed down from the last rick , exhausted and wet to the skin . |
| 7 | ‘ Induction offers the chef total control down to the last degree , and because only the pan is heated it means chefs no longer have to work in a hot , uncomfortable kitchen environment . ’ |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , then , their package of proposals for constitutional change has much in common with the perspective set down in the last section . |
| 9 | Many medieval millers paid their rent to the lord of the manor in eels ; and when the water-mill in the centre of Stafford was pulled down after the last war , the laconic miller expressed as his only regret : ‘ I shall miss the eels . ’ |
| 10 | Generals , officers , non-commissioned officers , and men fought shoulder to shoulder down to the last shot . |
| 11 | He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill . |
| 12 | Marr watches ‘ Ouija Board ’ go down for the last time |
| 13 | AN ERA ends today when the shutters come down for the last time at the Owen Owen store in Liverpool . |
| 14 | To load a program into the computer : this does not mean that the future has been planned down to the last detail , that everything is written ‘ up above ’ . |
| 15 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 16 | Mr Clark , 64 , who stood down at the last election , had assured him that he had not advised companies to conceal military use when preparing export licence applications . |