Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I slept off the last of my baggitis , sweet visions of castles , fountains and autumn leaves drifted through my dreams . |
| 2 | A quiver of anguish passed along my spine as I came to the last dish . |
| 3 | But as I suggested in the last part of Chapter 2 , this difference is not of any great practical significance : whether deviant motivations are taken as given because they express free will ( classical theory ) or because it is not deemed fruitful to attempt their explanation ( control theory ) does not , in itself ; have any practical implications for the subsequent criminological enterprise . |
| 4 | As far as I recall from the last meeting . |
| 5 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 6 | Her eyes widened as she came to the last paragraph , and she stared at it before abruptly crumpling the paper and stuffing it back into her case . |
| 7 | For a brief moment , as she battled with the last remaining shreds of her resistance , Lindsey could feel the thud of his heartbeat , then excitement exploded , heady and intoxicating , as her hands relaxed against the warmth of his chest . |
| 8 | As we noted in the last chapter , to say that a decision or action is subject to judicial review is to say that it can be challenged on the basis of the rules and principles of public law which define the grounds of judicial review . |
| 9 | As we skimmed along the last hundred metres , I said to the lieutenant , ‘ Tuan , have you something the boy can put over his shirt ? |
| 10 | Now as we saw at the last council meeting , where a very right and proper and honest and law abiding council and we do n't want to create a situation in which people are encouraged to break the law . |
| 11 | As we saw in the last chapter , the operation of discretion by the police is a particular fascination in the sociology of policing , but discretion is often viewed narrowly in terms of law : whether the police apply or omit the letter of the law . |
| 12 | As we saw in the last section , all shops offer a service to the customer , although the type of service may vary . |
| 13 | As we saw in the last section , knowing your product well helps sell goods . |
| 14 | As we saw in the last chapter , Hooke 's law is really only true for small strains and at large strains the interatomic force curve bends over so that the strain energy is less than we have calculated , very roughly about half . |
| 15 | A further 44 per cent of all elderly people live only with a spouse and , as we saw in the last chapter , only about 14 per cent are living with others- ‘ non-spouses ’ . |
| 16 | As we saw in the last chapter , he , too , believed in the possibility of an objective category of crime which was not necessarily the same as that defined by the existing criminal law , and its source — the reason of the ‘ few thinking men in every nation ’ seems just as elitist and potentially authoritarian . |
| 17 | By itself this association between earnings and company size is not unique to Japan , but as we saw in the last chapter the number of workers affected is greater . |
| 18 | But , as we saw in the last chapter , there may be reasons to reject this analysis of causation in favour of the one involving real connections or causal powers or both . |
| 19 | As we saw in the last chapter , a study in William Dement 's laboratory verified that external stimuli could indeed be incorporated into dreams during REM sleep . |
| 20 | This hierarchy within physics was , as we saw in the last chapter , also noted by Becher ( 1984 ) , in his examination of the ‘ culture ’ of disciplines . |
| 21 | As we saw in the last chapter the anointed king of Israel was equipped with the Spirit to enable him to carry out his work ; hence the expectation of Isaiah 11:1 ff that the Messiah would also be equipped , in fuller measure , with that Spirit . |
| 22 | On the one hand , as we saw in the last chapter , we are uncertain about the limits of our own species . |
| 23 | As we saw in the last chapter , quantum mechanics tells us that all particles are in fact waves , and that the higher the energy of a particle , the smaller the wavelength of the corresponding wave . |
| 24 | In a quantum theory of gravity , as we saw in the last chapter , in order to specify the state of the universe one would still have to say how the possible histories of the universe would behave at the boundary of space-time in the past . |
| 25 | As we saw in the last chapter , the demands of the hunting economy imposed the need for considerable altruism , cooperation and inhibition of aggression within the hunting band in other words , the need for the superego . |
| 26 | Notice that the slope of the consumption line is 0.8 : this represents the fraction of additional disposable income which will be consumed and , as we saw in the last chapter , is called the marginal propensity to consume ( mpc ) . |
| 27 | He is a warm , caring person underneath as we hear in the last sentence , spoken by the uncaring Carlson , |
| 28 | As we said in the last chapter , the Church is well placed to give a positive message at this time , to speak of how mortality is understood and how it fits in with the Christian message of salvation . |
| 29 | However , as we said in the last chapter , it seems to be a condition for the strength and toughness of materials of this type that there should be planes of weakness parallel to the strongest direction . |
| 30 | However , urban squalor was not high on our list of topics as we picked off the last Munro , Stob Coire an Laoigh , oddly not marked on the ordnance survey map . |