Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [noun] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |
| 2 | Hoyte himself had come to office in the last elections in December 1985 [ see p. 34162 ] , while his People 's National Congress ( PNC ) had been in power since independence in 1966 . |
| 3 | It was also remarkable that Germans — thought to be so liberal — now looked to England as the last refuge of Liberty ; they applauded Nelson 's recent victories — the political wheel had turned full circle . |
| 4 | The county 's young men are taking the charts by storm as a string of young dance bands from the area have rocketed to stardom over the last 18 months . |
| 5 | Maguire , who has rocketed to stardom in the last 18 months , was punished for incorrect use of the whip on Playing Truant , short head winner of the Hopeful Novices ' Hurdle . |
| 6 | Forty cases of illegal logging have been brought to court in the last three years , but the loophole in the regulations makes it difficult to prove charges , so a technique is being developed to date the year of felling , using tree rings . |
| 7 | It 's given to people in the last years of this century who will make a difference to the plant in the next century . |
| 8 | Juvenile lawlessness , he thought , represented ‘ a serious challenge , the difficulty of which is intensified by the extension of freedom which , for better or worse , has been given to youth in the last generation ’ . |
| 9 | Over half of all patients developed a clinically import nt complication in the first 100 operations ( 52% ) ; this figure has now fallen to 25% in the last 68 operations . |
| 10 | ( In fact , as will be seen later , a number of them were admitted to hospital during the last twelve months of their lives and some died in hospital . ) |
| 11 | The government on March 26 rejected as " totally one-sided " a report released on March 24 by the human rights organization Amnesty International , alleging that " many hundreds , if not thousands , of people [ in India ] have been tortured to death during the last decade " . |
| 12 | I want you to check on any murderers who 've been convicted and sent to Whitely in the last three years , got it ? |
| 13 | Like I said , I want to know how many murderers have been sent to Whitely in the last three years . |
| 14 | I presume you have access to the various briefing papers we have circulated to branches over the last 18 months or so . |
| 15 | Several placements have broken down , including that for one person in this study ( WG ) , who was returned to hospital at the last datapoint ( this person has since been brought back to a staffed house in her home district ) . |