Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the last [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down towards the last hour I 'm the last person to drop off just trying to leave them with as many positive thoughts and perhaps talking quietly to the odd individual . |
| 2 | ‘ God meeting us no longer as ‘ Thou ’ , but also disguised in the ‘ It ’ ; so in the last resort my question is how we are to find the ‘ Thou ’ in this ‘ It , ’ ( i.e. , fate ) . |
| 3 | When it comes to that though there will be people from other green parties who who 'll be looking for accommodation so at the last minute we can |
| 4 | Sometimes you 're a week away from the last performance you gave and then find yourself out there — so that the voice and understanding of the part does need constant refreshing . |
| 5 | ‘ Not since the last time you were here , Father . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes a head-on collision with a lorry seems inevitable , but somehow at the last moment we or they swerve out of the way . |
| 7 | He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in . |
| 8 | She was suddenly aware of approaching hurried footsteps , and scurried back into the last room she had passed , which was n't locked and turned out to be a storeroom for spare cables and bulbs for the lighting system . |
| 9 | It put my mind at rest on one point often in the last weeks we had seemed more like friends than incipient lovers ; the silences now seemed to betoken a quiet awareness of the new status that would soon envelop us . |
| 10 | Well a way back in the last century they they had to go looking for a life a living elsewhere because of the poverty of the place . |
| 11 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |
| 12 | The England game , very exciting yes and really to the last minute you did n't know who was going to win it , with France coming back with two late tries erm but England 's forward domination told in the end . |
| 13 | What 's sort of going on since the last time I interviewed you . |
| 14 | Half-way through the last act we 'll call a doctor , and the police if you like — they wo n't stop the show then and the delay wo n't harm Bunty , poor little cow . ’ |
| 15 | Fortunately , even in the last rooms there are works of splendid quality , notably the pairs of heads by Tullio Lombardo from Vienna and the Ca d'Oro . |
| 16 | And particularly over the last session we talked about the symbolic actions that make up the actual point of confirmation , the confirming of the sacrament , of the sacrament of confirmation . |
| 17 | The gag is the only way of allowing him to feel and check the teeth properly even to the last molars which are situated parallel with the eye . |
| 18 | Then in the last paragraph they express the view that the academic ability of this particular child , not being one of the criteria for admission was not directly in point . |
| 19 | Then on the last night I made my big mistake , and hit that bad business I told you about . |
| 20 | It begins with a single central fact , the murder ; it broadens out as suspect after suspect comes into play ; then almost at the last moment it narrows abruptly down to another single fact , the murderer . |
| 21 | Perhaps it decided to stay put and I would n't notice it was there and maybe at the last second it decided it would run for it ! |
| 22 | ‘ We talked about it , but then at the last minute we thought of the Bahamas . |
| 23 | Then at the last minute she swung round , her heart bursting inside her , just in time to see him disappear through the terrace doors . |
| 24 | But then at the last moment I drifted wide . |
| 25 | Then at the last moment he 'd pressed the small jeweller 's box into her hand . |
| 26 | Yet in the last analysis there are always hard decisions and choices to be made : which learnings are worthwhile , which are appropriate , which should be emphasised above others . |
| 27 | That is why in the last resort one must depend on faith . ’ |
| 28 | Yet at the last count there were six oil-rich states bordering the Gulf . |