Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [art] last [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I enclose a copy of what caused me to miss the last meeting of the Powys Health Project . |
2 | ‘ I 'm just trying to get some perspective here , ’ he said as I twisted the last coldness from my beer bottle . |
3 | In desperation , once we hit the less-trafficked back roads south-east of Manor House , I cover the last leg on the well-polished bodywork of someone 's brand new Volvo . |
4 | From afar it looks like the classical volcanic cone and it is with a mounting sense of excitement that I climb the last section of loose lava gravel and sharp , welded lava rock . |
5 | I spent every last penny of my hoarded misery that night , blew eighteen years ' worth on one split second , and it felt better than anyone who is not a fan can ever be expected to understand . |
6 | And then my erm my mother saw him and then I went to see him and Then I started the last week in July with him after the school closed . |
7 | I took a last walk through the churchyard to the marshes . |
8 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
9 | Yes , I had all the other feelings of distress and fear , I thought of the world at war , I remembered the last war of 1914 — 18 when I was still a schoolboy and I had experienced the air raids on London then . |
10 | For me , I think the last paragraph in my paper in the Speaker of the week before last [ ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ ] was pretty good ; but it ought to be in verse . |
11 | I liked the last chapter on ‘ Some applied problems ’ in which the importance of a thorough knowledge of mammal biology for controlling or conserving particular species is outlined . |
12 | You know , if the wa I 'll have that but but I had the last bit before that . |
13 | I destroyed the last vestiges of that organisation two days back . |
14 | Asking them to recount the last incidence of the problem behaviour often helps . |
15 | 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 ) . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | It 's still used for target practice — a poignant reminder of the Cold War , the end of which heralded the last post for RAF Hullavington . |
18 | THE furnace which powered the last bastion of North Wales 's once-mighty steel industry was last night on its way to China . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | The back of the villa , which overlooks a last section of the gardens , is by far the best façade , especially if viewed across an acre of grass , or across the delightful duck pond at the bottom of the slope below the house . |
23 | But there was also an exhilaration in the atmosphere of conspiracy and violence which characterised the last years of his childhood . |
24 | Possessed of such , and revelling in the distance set between them and miserable ‘ pragmatism ’ , Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative Party can still persuade itself to see the last decade as a period when undeviating conviction wrought a miracle in the land . |
25 | Do you want the last link in , link in the chain ? |
26 | Craning her neck , she caught a last glimpse of Beth and the child . |
27 | Unlike her uncle and aunt , who spoke with the Northern inflection , drawing one word into another , she pronounced the last syllable of each word . |
28 | She added the last phrase as if suddenly aware that she was taking no undue interest in her children 's fate . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Thank you for the compliment you paid the last edition of Rural Wales . |