Example sentences of "to [pron] [noun] [prep] the last " in BNC.

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1 Out of the contemporary turmoil of Hindu tradition Rabindranath Tagore wrote of the same mysterious sources of renewal : I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power — that the path before me was closed , that provisions were exhausted and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity .
2 Other strategies which recognise the new sense and the new possibilities are the wildlife/domestic stock village systems developing in Central Africa — systems not dissimilar to the self-sufficient , low-input philosophy that Gandhi was promoting before India became a monolithic Civil Service with centralised control which destroyed village integrity : the same problem that has caused thousands of Africans to return to their villages in the last twenty years , giving up their Government jobs for which they were never paid or even got their rations .
3 But he did n't like to go against his grandmother who , in her grim fashion , had been kind to his dad at the last .
4 Karl Gesner has had to swallow quite a few blows to his ego over the last few days .
5 These doubts about his work were directly related to his predicament in the last months of 1939 .
6 McGann attempted to press him as to his whereabouts in the last few days , to which Oscar asked why the hell it mattered .
7 As we reach the end of 1993 , and before we start on the challenges which the new year will bring , I want to express my thanks and appreciation to you , as members of our Company for your contribution to our business over the last year .
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