Example sentences of "[vb pp] down [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 2 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 3 | When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , then , their package of proposals for constitutional change has much in common with the perspective set down in the last section . |
| 5 | Many medieval millers paid their rent to the lord of the manor in eels ; and when the water-mill in the centre of Stafford was pulled down after the last war , the laconic miller expressed as his only regret : ‘ I shall miss the eels . ’ |
| 6 | To load a program into the computer : this does not mean that the future has been planned down to the last detail , that everything is written ‘ up above ’ . |
| 7 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |