Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
2 | Certainly , salmon seem to use smell to guide them on the last stage of their journey . |
3 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |
4 | But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season . |
5 | Only we I do n't , I do n't know about you but I do n't want to leave it until the last minute |
6 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
7 | Erm just to refer you to the last sentence , paragraph four three , er to assure members of the Committee that those er representation whether the erm application . |
8 | 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 . ’ |
9 | ‘ There 's no doubt I had chances to nail it in the last set , but you 've got to hand it to Dennis . |
10 | Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment . |
11 | Annabel had said as much to Father Ross the last time he had come to tea , and Father Ross had looked at her sternly over his glasses , saying that if we all understood the way the Universe was run what would there be left for God to tell us on the Last Day . |