Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] on the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 2 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 3 | A memo by a lieutenant-colonel on the staff ( whose signature is illegible ) to the Director of Military Operations at MEHQ gives an insight into what was in the pipeline for L Detachment , ‘ which went out on the last operation hurriedly and ill organised . |
| 4 | Having to get up very early in the mornings he tended to be in bed by the time she arrived home on the last bus from Bath . |
| 5 | But , thanks to the kindness of a lady in the petrol depot who agreed to phone our host when a delivery was about to be made and where , we eventually refuelled at about 9.00 am on Thursday we set out on the last leg of our journey . |
| 6 | We took off on the last leg for Tromsø . |
| 7 | ‘ We go out on the last night , ’ said Rodney . |
| 8 | We slept out on the last fields , leaving the 90 zigzags of path up to the plateau for the next day . |
| 9 | Further that we shall petition government tor an abolition and nullifying of the foresaid Act from the records of British parliament ; that the members of parliament for this county shall present this petition , or any annexed thereto , to the two Houses of Parliament , and to the Privy Council , during the prorogation of parliament — ‘ Menzies was seething and he broke in on the last words . |
| 10 | He looked back on the last ten days , reflecting on the events which had brought him to where he now was . |
| 11 | He spoke out on the last day of Labour 's Scottish conference in Inverness , which ended with the party in better spirits than organisers could have dared hope even a week ago . |
| 12 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |