Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the last [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nottingham Forest0 Manchester United1 MANCHESTER United filled the last remaining gap in the Old Trafford trophy cabinet , as far as domestic competitions are concerned , at Wembley yesterday by winning the League Cup for the first time . |
| 2 | Two rounds of trumps can be drawn with the Ace and King , and then 3 rounds of Spades played trumping the last losing Spade in dummy . |
| 3 | Kalchu finished weaving the last whitish length of woollen cloth to make a jacket and put his loom away . |
| 4 | However , the secretary-general of Hezbollah , Sheikh Abbas Musawi , said on Nov. 20 that the fate of the Western hostages was no longer linked to that of Arabs held by Israel , a declaration which appeared to remove the last political obstacle to the resolution of the hostage issue . |
| 5 | But anyone who could understand English and had watched the last Liberal broadcast , an exercise in pure Paddiography , would know perfectly well how she could say that . |
| 6 | The conference , the first of its kind openly held in Iraq , brought together all major opposition parties including several based in Iran , Saudi Arabia and Syria which had boycotted the last major opposition conference held in Vienna in June [ see p. 38985 ] . |
| 7 | Gould had struck the last ornithological goldmine . |
| 8 | Stirring it around herself , she looked down at her long body , noticing how her illness had removed the last spare flesh . |
| 9 | Tammuz Malamute had stepped off the shuttle port outside Arcady and had delivered the last fateful message to his a.i . |
| 10 | The company had insisted the last 88 job cuts in a 2,200 redundancy programme had to be found before yesterday 's deadline . |
| 11 | Those misses obviously eroded Barnes ' confidence , and he tended to play the last half hour of the game with the weight of the world on his shoulders . |