Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One , two , three , four five six , seven , eight no one , two three , four there 's nine so we 'll probably have to take some stools in , but I wo n't take them in till the last minute . |
| 2 | Or walk out and let you down at the last minute . ’ |
| 3 | Disadvantages : She may not have had much experience looking after young children ; she may let you down at the last minute if something else crops up — like a boyfriend . |
| 4 | Wait until I let you through into the last cellar , and then I must take the keys back to the steward . |
| 5 | The design is produced by threading the weft strands through a number of the warp strands , rather than directly from edge to edge , and then looping them back around the last warp thread used . |
| 6 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 7 | And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute . |
| 8 | She rode him out over the last furlong and finished some six lengths behind Shine On . |
| 9 | ‘ If you 'll wash the lettuce I 'll make my special dressing and we could pick some wild sorrel and chop it in at the last minute . ’ |
| 10 | The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over . |
| 11 | I 'm terribly lazy and always put it off until the last minute . ’ |
| 12 | He opened it up at the last minute , came flying over and it was a terrific shot . |
| 13 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 14 | Everything about it up to the last page where Strauss wrote IN MEMORIAM ! and we hear the ‘ Eroica ’ theme for the last time . |
| 15 | I 'd worked it out to the last breath . |
| 16 | want to get it out till the last minute in case it rained on it again . |
| 17 | Another affronted retort rose to her lips , but bewildered honesty forced Isabel to choke it back at the last moment . |