Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [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 Er so you want a bugler for the Last Post .
4 We want a whitewash from the last two games . ’
5 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 .
6 Remove the foil for the last 30 min and serve hot or cold .
7 The line-up for the fourth Grand Slam Finals of the Vauxhall Indoor Tennis Trophy reflects a mixture of old and new , as former champions Queen 's Club make the grade for the fourth time , whilst Royal Berkshire earn a place in the last four for the first time in their debut Trophy season .
8 ‘ You 're supposed to heat them up first , ’ said Sam , ‘ and add the cream at the last minute . ’
9 Are the Government to continue with the same policy or enact a U-turn at the last moment ?
10 Make a copy of the last graph and on it plot the sales of Mr Gordon Mr Richard 's rival for the same week .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Extrapolate the trends of the last 40 years and such a depressing scenario looks like a dead cert .
14 A portable computer can be taken to any room to interrogate the lock and produce a list of the last 100 events at that particular lock-set .
15 ‘ 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 . ’
16 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 .
17 AS the smoke is clearing and the wreckage can be examined , what do the convulsions of the last two days mean ?
18 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 .
19 Despite his personal success the team has not score a point in the last five matches , and are next to bottom .
20 The paper is going up to the Library Advisory Committee with a request for suggestions for cuts , and I enclose a copy of the last page with its summary for your information .
21 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 .
22 I have the memories of the last time we loved to carry me through to my grave .
23 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 .
24 We unload the boats for the last time , take the final photographs , and cast our minds back , trying to fix the memories .
25 Erm we have a video of the last programme of the Churchill series
26 My retrospective impression is that the talk was less taut than this , and I have no recollection of the last point being raised . ’
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