Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to prepare them for it , not leave it to the last two weeks with people asking what was happening . |
| 3 | Not too long — I generally leave it to the last minute . |
| 4 | He could now lose it on the last ball ! |
| 5 | As long as er I keep finding places that I have n't , you know thi this is leaving it to the la I have n't left it till the last minute , but all las la you know I keep looking at it and thinking well |
| 6 | But Ferguson insisted : ‘ Let me make one thing crystal clear — Manchester United wo n't bottle it on the last lap of the championship . |
| 7 | Begin what seems to be a front kick , then change it at the last moment into a high roundhouse kick . |
| 8 | And yet another client of mine who 's a teacher , she said oh yeah she said it 's lovely , she said I suppose I ought to do the marking and all that at the beginning she said but I leave it , she said , and I sometimes do it in the last week . |
| 9 | You could use it er , in the reverse of the way that the theory suggests , which you can actually leave it on the last diary page where you have something on your to do list that you have n't completed . |