Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well , I 'm really wanting to go to Birkdale , so I jumps on the last train out of St Andrews .
2 How far anyone is convinced by them depends in the last resort on the themes of the last two chapters — on imagination and experience .
3 ‘ It 's now a tradition that she comes for the last week of the campaign , ’ he says .
4 He writes in the last paragraph , ‘ It should be borne in mind that for the creation of a climatic regime managed by man , further progress of science and engineering is necessary which would permit a considerable increase in the present production of energy .
5 This is the anti-socialist , specifically anti-Marxist bent of the elitist theory as it unfolds in the last decade of the nineteenth century ’ ( Meisel , 1958 , p. 10 ) .
6 ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes .
7 When it gets to the last line the beam shoots back to the top .
8 He sounds like the last playboy of the western world , who might have been born in London or New York but fell overboard from a boat between the two .
9 It tells of the last penguin to leave the North Pole , left behind because he is afraid of swimming .
10 It follows from the last paragraph that there are at least two different ways of studying a community 's use of language and attitudes towards it .
11 It dates from the last years of Egyptian independence and was still being built during the lifetime of Christ .
12 It runs until the last day of this month .
13 Mr. Leggatt said the recession had affected the industry to a minimal degree , ‘ When it comes to the last rites people will have what they best feel suits the deceased . ’
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