Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we hit the bar as well , so it goes to the ninetieth minute does n't it , that 's what it is , a fifteen round fight goes to the last second does n't it as some boxers have found out . |
| 2 | Note also an error in the text relating to the last set of transactions which should relate to l months 8 to 12 , not 6 to 12 as shown in the text . |
| 3 | Remembering how often she had bought skin care products and abandoned them she thought of the collection of half used jars and tubes in her dressing table drawer and came up this headline : " Our creams and lotions are all used up " with the striking visual of a tube squeezed to the last drop . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman referred to the last time it occurred . |
| 5 | As I expected , the hon. Gentleman responded to the last intervention by saying that a Labour Government would simply reintroduce rates . |
| 6 | Always lying handy as Coco Dancer led for most of the trip , Limeridge took up the running from Coco Dancer going to the last fence and at this stage was hotly pursued by the favourite Canute Express . |
| 7 | His earlier much-fabled ‘ ruthless determination ’ and fanatical single-mindedness were now becoming to be regarded as a major liability , and the command to the 6th Army to fight to the last man was seen as its fateful demonstration . |
| 8 | He was , for instance , punctilious about paying his models the agreed amount and would work out the precise sum owed to the last quarter of an hour . |
| 9 | This jump occurs after the paragraph corresponding to the last link from a node and before the first paragraph associated with the next node . |
| 10 | Of course , it may be argued that the Cash paid at the beginning of the year relates to the last quarter 's electricity for the old financial year and so this financial year includes four payments for electricity ; thus , the year 's payments do reflect the cost of electricity . |