Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 2 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 3 | And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’ |
| 4 | Rain said : ‘ I found out during the last few days . |
| 5 | They could perhaps find a replacement make-up artist , though that would prove difficult at such short notice , but someone coming in at the last moment would find it hard to cope with the unusual styles , and the actors would be having problems enough dealing with first-night nerves without having to face any added strain . |
| 6 | Oh I looked up about the last , the last essay I did cos it was about erm |
| 7 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 8 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 9 | But this would be to simplify things for , as I have argued , black kids generally come from the kind of family backgrounds which are not suited for their own educational needs — for reasons which I spelled out in the last chapter , but will summarize as ‘ neglect ’ or ‘ unattainable goals ’ . |
| 10 | Yes , it 's disappointing , but when someone comes in at the last minute then the adrenalin flows and you can have a very lively show . |
| 11 | Likewise as I pointed out in the last chapter , in dramatic playing a boy may be required to adopt the function of an Abbot of Durham Cathedral , and in so far as he continues to see himself in that role he will continue to signal to others that that is what he is doing . |
| 12 | As I pointed out in the last chapter , working-class attachment to institutional religion never picked up from the moment that peasants moved off the land and became urbanised . |
| 13 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 14 | But , just as at Lani 's , I backed out at the last minute . |
| 15 | nothing came out of the last committee meeting to a definite , this is definite this . |
| 16 | Yet the point , it 's a question really , which refers back to the last programme summary three , of the , the ninety four , ninety five base budget . |
| 17 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 18 | The Common Good Fund and they , they had you know all I mean you know they had all feelers out for all , all the things , so there are a couple of dates which came up in the last meeting erm for further pilots and then the intention is to just go ahead from |
| 19 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The café , which dates back to the last century , has been maintained intact , at least in its decor . |
| 22 | ‘ We do n't like the term price war because that implies that these holidays are the type of bargain basement deal you pick up at the last minute . |
| 23 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 24 | shine On ridden with breathtaking confidence by the young apprentice Kelly Connor who got up in the last stride to — ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Suddenly she came out through the last curtain of trees and found herself looking down over sunlit green meadowland to where a railway line wound like a serpent through a cutting at the foot . |
| 27 | And when there 's four of you playing i and you get down to the last two or three card . |
| 28 | Mrs McIntosh , she knew , had had a young man who pulled out at the last minute ; she might take him in . |
| 29 | Did you find out from the last exercise that to get the area of a triangle we simply do the following ? |
| 30 | 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 . |