Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 2 | The enrichment of the Library 's printed collections by selecting appropriately from the constant flow of new knowledge , as well as completing gaps in those publications already represented in the collections built up over the last three hundred years of the Library 's development , is of paramount importance for scholars and researchers . |
| 3 | The main forces that work against trade union interest , according to Beaumont , are the difficulties experienced by unions in using the favourable industrial relations procedures laid down by the last Labour Government ; moves in the public sector that have made trade union organization difficult , and , in the case of GCHO , unlawful ; and the Conservative Government 's continuing drive against the closed shop . |
| 4 | the cherry and whites won through to the last eight by beating London Scottish at Kingsholm on Saturday … the score twenty … to seven |
| 5 | In East Yorkshire they are glacial erratics , stones picked up in the last Ice Age , worn smooth , and deposited as the ice retreated . |
| 6 | A handful of snipers held out to the last , and received no quarter . |