Example sentences of "[vb base] the [noun] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | She might , heaven forbid , allow herself to fall for him , and suffer the fate of the last three nurses whom he had rejected , according to Victoria , after they had expected more from him than just mild flirtation . |
| 2 | Say the sentence for the last time . |
| 3 | Remove the plumbline from the last bracket before fitting the last length , but fix it temporarily to the inside of the gutter ( with something like plasticine ) to provide a guide for the downpipe . |
| 4 | Remove the foil for the last 30 min and serve hot or cold . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're supposed to heat them up first , ’ said Sam , ‘ and add the cream at the last minute . ’ |
| 6 | Remember the hype over the last Winter Olympic hopefuls , or the Seoul Games when we did n't land a single gold in track and field . |
| 7 | For a few moments , to give Hookum Singh time to get to the hall and ring the bell for the last time , the Collector held the toppling pile of bodies by himself , then he sped across the drawing-room after the Sikhs , his boots crunching broken glass from the cases of stuffed animals ; the Sikhs had bare feet , however , and did not crunch it so loudly . |
| 8 | Extrapolate the trends of the last 40 years and such a depressing scenario looks like a dead cert . |
| 9 | ‘ If we apply the levies to the last full financial year , they would have raised almost £2million£1.6m generated by transfers and £360,000 from prize money . ’ |
| 10 | I did , but possibly too strong a word , but certainly I think erm , I think the struggle in the last couple of years with regard to the parish council , has been to , to actually introduce it to people 's perception as of anything but importance . |
| 11 | AS the smoke is clearing and the wreckage can be examined , what do the convulsions of the last two days mean ? |
| 12 | It is delivered in the form of a few coins which bear the likeness of the last president , a pleasant utopian who retired of his own free will . |
| 13 | Well looking at it carefully , as I have done , it 's surprising that if you take the whole of the last forty years and look across the world there are really only about eight major what you can call disasters — I call the calamities , because they are not really disasters — that have occurred with medicines . |
| 14 | I have the memories of the last time we loved to carry me through to my grave . |
| 15 | Since perfect learning of a new language or dialect is very rare beyond the age of , say , fourteen , ( see the discussion in the last section ; also Trudgill 1986 : 34 ; Romaine 1984 : 190ff ) , the usual result is that S 's personal variety shows some features of V1 ( the variety of S 's " native " community ) and some features of V2 . |
| 16 | We unload the boats for the last time , take the final photographs , and cast our minds back , trying to fix the memories . |