Example sentences of "on the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the last day of that term , my final-year class all came up to my office to give me a ‘ thank-you ’ present . |
| 2 | On the way back to Harwich , the newspapers did a marvellous job of keeping my mind off things , and it was only on the last leg of the journey that the butterflies started to flutter again . |
| 3 | I proceeded to catch up on the last ten years of what everyone had been doing . |
| 4 | Further that we shall petition government tor an abolition and nullifying of the foresaid Act from the records of British parliament ; that the members of parliament for this county shall present this petition , or any annexed thereto , to the two Houses of Parliament , and to the Privy Council , during the prorogation of parliament — ‘ Menzies was seething and he broke in on the last words . |
| 5 | ‘ We go out on the last night , ’ said Rodney . |
| 6 | No 37011 , with Ethel heating unit No 97251 , hauls the overnight sleeper from London ( Euston ) near Torlundy on the last stage of its journey to Fort William . |
| 7 | I went this year , during the town 's autumn festival , which always starts on the last Friday of August and lasts for 10 days . |
| 8 | But on the Last Day certainly God will call the drunkards of the world to Him : . |
| 9 | But on the last Page of the novel ‘ life had taken the place of dialectics ’ , and Raskolnikov is on his way home . |
| 10 | They discovered the object with the UK 's 4.2m William Herchel telescope ( WHT ) on La Palma in The Canaries on the last night of a 40-night observing campaign , studying very faint sources detected by the IRAS infrared astronomical satellite with optical ground-based telescopes . |
| 11 | For a start , the figures exclude transactions that occurred on the last two business days of the month — the very time when pressure on the pound was thought to be most intense . |
| 12 | Jos Lansink 's first visit to The Horse of the Year Show could reward him with a Jaguar car , if he can maintain the form shown on the last three days . |
| 13 | Twice , White lost European finals to him ; , on the last occasion , in 1988 , he lost on a rather harsh penalty , but knew that at last he had the measure of the Frenchman . |
| 14 | Even in a country like India , Test cricket no longer generates massive appeal , and on the last full tour there — by the West Indies — a 12-match international programme was split 8-4 in favour of the instant thrill . |
| 15 | On the last flight of steps to their flat they have stuck posters on the wall , mostly landscapes : a colourful picture of Provence , an advertisement for southern Sweden , the Caucasus mountains , St Mark 's Square in Venice . |
| 16 | Racing : Braiswick brings era to a close : Richard Edmondson on the last victory for a racing dynasty before it becomes absorbed by the Maktoum empire |
| 17 | Brussels : Prices tumbled on the last day of the forward account Oslo : Caution ahead of the 1990 budget clipped 3.83 points off the index to 527.08 . |
| 18 | Robson 's team have yet to concede a goal in their five World Cup qualifying matches and one more clean sheet when the whistle blows on the last , in Chorzow tomorrow evening , will put them in the finals . |
| 19 | On the last point he said ‘ a formal relationship with the DM would signal the long-term determination to accept the discipline that our counter-inflationary policy needs . |
| 20 | Open 9.30am-7.30 pm , except on the last day , when the show closes at 5pm . |
| 21 | This is the opportunity for senior managers to endorse warnings for vigilance or diligence , which they do occasionally , and for sergeants to review both the incidents which occurred on the last shift and the matters which need special attention on the present one . |
| 22 | Add together the gross earnings on the last eight pay days before the start of the PIW and divide the total by eight . |
| 23 | Add together the gross payments made on the last normal pay day before the PIW began and any other payments made since the pay day which was at least eight weeks before that . |
| 24 | Where an employee is paid once each month , but in multiples of a week , for example on the last Friday of each month , add together the gross payments made on the last normal pay day before the PIW began and any other payments made since the pay day which was at least eight weeks before . |
| 25 | Where an employee is paid once each month , but in multiples of a week , for example on the last Friday of each month , add together the gross payments made on the last normal pay day before the PIW began and any other payments made since the pay day which was at least eight weeks before . |
| 26 | Add together the gross payments made on the last normal pay-day before the end of the QW and any other payments made after the pay-day which was at least eight weeks before that . |
| 27 | Where your employee is paid once a month but is paid in multiples of a week ( for example , on the last Friday of each month ) , add together the gross payments made on the last pay day before the end of the QW and any other payments made after the pay day at least eight weeks before that . |
| 28 | Where your employee is paid once a month but is paid in multiples of a week ( for example , on the last Friday of each month ) , add together the gross payments made on the last pay day before the end of the QW and any other payments made after the pay day at least eight weeks before that . |
| 29 | On the last day of 1921 the Party Central Committee appointed Feliks Dzerzhinsky , the head of the Cheka and Commissar for Transport , to the commission for the dispatch of food supplies and grain seed from Siberia and the Ukraine . |
| 30 | ‘ I could not help recalling , ’ Sir Maurice Hankey , the Cabinet Secretary , wrote in his diary in September , ‘ that on the last day of Parliament Mr. Baldwin had walked across the yard outside [ the House of Commons ] and had said ‘ I will do everything I can to help the Government in making economies , but I will not enter a Coalition Government . ' |