Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Well , I 'm really wanting to go to Birkdale , so I jumps on the last train out of St Andrews .
2 How far anyone is convinced by them depends in the last resort on the themes of the last two chapters — on imagination and experience .
3 Carry on like this throughout the row until only one is left , which goes on the last needle , overlapping the one already on it .
4 Following the introduction of civil penalties for late filing of accounts from 1 July ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 85 ) , Companies House has confirmed that the periods allowed for the filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period .
5 What a strange statement has come from Companies House confirming that the periods allowed for filing of company accounts actually expire at midnight on the date in the last month for filing which corresponds to the last day of the company 's accounting reference period ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 98 ) .
6 Which marks for the last test give a final average of fourteen marks for So the one test is gon na give him that is n't it ?
7 Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term .
8 The following month , in the same journal , a swift refutation of these tenets came in the shape of a letter from a consultant histopathologist by name of J.V. Clark , who responds to the last point regarding the relations ' not understanding what is being asked when a postmortem is requested , by pointing out that in all probability funeral directors do not explain the procedure of embalming to the next of kin and , more seriously , maintaining that delay would reduce the maximum benefit of an autopsy and also delay the funeral .
9 ‘ It 's now a tradition that she comes for the last week of the campaign , ’ he says .
10 He writes in the last paragraph , ‘ It should be borne in mind that for the creation of a climatic regime managed by man , further progress of science and engineering is necessary which would permit a considerable increase in the present production of energy .
11 This is the anti-socialist , specifically anti-Marxist bent of the elitist theory as it unfolds in the last decade of the nineteenth century ’ ( Meisel , 1958 , p. 10 ) .
12 ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes .
13 When it gets to the last line the beam shoots back to the top .
14 He sounds like the last playboy of the western world , who might have been born in London or New York but fell overboard from a boat between the two .
15 It tells of the last penguin to leave the North Pole , left behind because he is afraid of swimming .
16 It follows from the last paragraph that there are at least two different ways of studying a community 's use of language and attitudes towards it .
17 It dates from the last years of Egyptian independence and was still being built during the lifetime of Christ .
18 It runs until the last day of this month .
19 Mr. Leggatt said the recession had affected the industry to a minimal degree , ‘ When it comes to the last rites people will have what they best feel suits the deceased . ’
  Next page