Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the last [noun sg] " 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 | This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years . |
| 3 | The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war . |
| 4 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |
| 5 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 6 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 7 | ( Research and development split between the two lines — currently 50–50 — will soon tip the balance in favour of AViiON , since three years ' worth of products are expected to be squeezed out of the last round of investment in the proprietary line . ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 10 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 11 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 12 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 13 | It 's just built up over the last coupla years really . |
| 14 | Priestley had particular pleasure in recalling that moment in Payday in which Charlie has to walk home through the rain after foolishly spending his pay and after being pushed out of the last tram ; he anticipates his wife 's anger and the return to short rations and yet not all is hopeless , something might turn up . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Speakers were David Snow of BP Bitor ( the company which imports and markets the fuel from Venezuela ) , Peter Taylor from the Oil Pollution Research Unit at Fort Popton , Dr Clive Morgan , also from Fort Popton but who was drafted in at the last minute to play the part of National Power Plc , and finally Gordon James of Narberth Friends of the Earth . |
| 17 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
| 18 | SCOTLAND HAS failed to fill the entrepreneurial gap which has opened up over the last decade since the decline of the nationalised and heavy industries , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , will acknowledge next week . |
| 19 | Lorton wondered if he 'd chickened out at the last moment . |
| 20 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 21 | A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute . |
| 22 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 23 | Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach . |
| 24 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 25 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 26 | Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute . |
| 27 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 28 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 29 | The plan was called off at the last moment . |
| 30 | The conflict is played out for the last time in The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) , where the ballerina played by Moira Shearer initially lives unproblematically for her dancing , until she falls in love with a composer . |