Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun] [prep] the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NZRFU can not really expect the Home Unions to agree to short tours when they place matches on the last two Saturdays of a tour , and put the tourists against top-strength sides at major venues on the two preceding Saturdays . |
| 2 | As the train was pulling into the station at Shkodër some of the rioters set light to the last two carriages ; at least two passengers were burned to death . |
| 3 | STEVE ARCHIBALD & THE HIBS BOARD SQUABBLE OVER THE LAST CLEAN STRIP |
| 4 | Dahl , 1954 , 1955 , 1987 ) ; however , the glacial survival of amphi-atlantic species such as Potamogeton epihydrus or Najas exilis ( as suggested by Harrison , 1948b ) or bryophytes such as Myurium hochstetteri , Leptodontium recurvifolium , or Campylopus shawii seems unlikely in view of reconstructed July mean temperatures during the last glacial maximum on St Kilda of 4°C and mean sea-surface temperatures around Rockall of 0–2°C ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 5 | I enclose samples of the last two cards we have produced . |
| 6 | I enclose samples of the last two cards we have produced . |
| 7 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |