Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 2 | Much depended in the last resort , too , on the power with which the negotiators went to the negotiating table , what goodwill there was between parties and what the strength of the bargaining power was . |
| 3 | But then it is all explained in the last paragraph , where Sir Kingsley gives his highest praise to Clive James , for heaven 's sake . |
| 4 | November — We are often better favoured in the last weeks of the season … ’ |
| 5 | number for Malcolm Smith , secretary of N.E.B.E. , was wrongly given in the last issue . |
| 6 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 7 | The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 . |
| 8 | To add to these impressions of an electorate in a constant state of flux there were other polls showing that many voters only decided at the last minute how to vote . |
| 9 | This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies . |
| 10 | He is as baffled as anybody over why Pool have suddenly slumped in the last month . |
| 11 | These later changes have all occurred in the last century and the pace of change is ever quickening . |
| 12 | She had very nearly done a cordon bleu cookery course after she had left school , only deciding at the last minute to reinvest her time and money in the boutique instead . |
| 13 | If you put something like N H and then O H four well the convention is that when it 's a suffix stuff a subscript and a suffix below the line there and just after it , it only applies to the last element . |
| 14 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 15 | It only improved in the last years of the nineteenth century with the company 's realization of a profitable traffic in middle-class commuters living at the seaside while working in Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 16 | So he was far from impressed with having to take part in the entire build-up , only to learn at the last minute he would not play from the start . |
| 17 | Between January 1939 and June 1940 she worked on the French–Spanish border to alleviate the wretchedness of the defeated Spanish Republicans , only leaving on the last boat to sail for Britain from Bordeaux . |
| 18 | Our first loss , as you correctly said , was at Palace , and it was not only lost in the last minute , it was in the 94th minute of a terrible game . |
| 19 | The condition of Anne Freeman , in-patient , was ‘ much mended ’ and one of Mary Boyce 's eyes had continued to recover ; the other was much inflamed since the last report . |
| 20 | EDITOR 'S FOOTNOTE : You obviously did n't see our exclusive interviews with ex-Boro players Gary Pallister and Tony Mowbray , the letter to Lennie and our coverage of Boro 's FA Cup exploits all published in the last fortnight . |
| 21 | Significantly no places within 10 miles of London were contacted about the convention and a delegation from the old Anti-Slavery Society was only suggested at the last moment . |
| 22 | Moments after the fighter had dipped its wings , the RAF ensign was gently lowered for the last time at Biggin Hill , Kent . |
| 23 | Although the government eventually decided to accept royalties from sales of the chip rather than to take an equity share in the company , it was widely seen as the last straw in a conflict between Fields and the administration . |
| 24 | Although her owners had tried every method of finding her , including local radio appeals , Tim Charlesworth eventually turned to the last resort of hiring a helicopter to help in the search . |
| 25 | Here the discourse proceeds through a repeated grammatical structure ( to X and not to Y the/for Z ) into which different words are slotted , creating a rhythm which is finally broken in the last phrase in a way which may seem to imitate the sense of relief and reward the prayer concerns . |
| 26 | A story in Numbers 25 which we did not consider in the last chapter ( for it is not a complaint story ) makes it even more readily understandable . |
| 27 | This can not fall on the last syllable of the stem , and is , if necessary , moved to an earlier syllable . |
| 28 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 29 | The High Elf sorcerers had succeeded in opening the vortex but were trapped within it , eternally keeping it open , eternally trapped in the last moments of their battle with Chaos . |
| 30 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |