Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The route became circular in 1906 , going to Bolton Abbey and back , and in 1915 it changed for the last time . |
| 2 | This is the anti-socialist , specifically anti-Marxist bent of the elitist theory as it unfolds in the last decade of the nineteenth century ’ ( Meisel , 1958 , p. 10 ) . |
| 3 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 4 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 5 | And when it came to the last garment , I pulled that off as well , glad as children always are , and I hope always will to be undressed and free , and stood in what Janet calls ‘ birthday clothes ’ . |
| 6 | It was this fact which led Lord Lyons to comment that the government did not lead so much as follow when it came to the last stages of the crisis . |
| 7 | It arrived in the last post . ’ |
| 8 | When it gets to the last line the beam shoots back to the top . |
| 9 | It has an overdraft of just over £1m , and its finance committee was told this week that , after hoarding trade-union and individual affiliations since 1987 , the party would have some £6m to spend in a May or June election — still much less than the Tories , but twice what it spent in the last election . |
| 10 | It worked for the last World Cup , when the FA paid a £30,000-a-man bonus for reaching the semi-finals . |
| 11 | It tells of the last penguin to leave the North Pole , left behind because he is afraid of swimming . |
| 12 | We led by two shots going into the last round , and when it blew on the last day , I did n't think anybody could beat Trevino . |
| 13 | It follows from the last paragraph that there are at least two different ways of studying a community 's use of language and attitudes towards it . |
| 14 | In fact , that is just what it did at the last election . |
| 15 | ‘ When it come to the last quarter of an hour , you want to have that last a long while ! ’ |
| 16 | It dates from the last years of Egyptian independence and was still being built during the lifetime of Christ . |
| 17 | It runs until the last day of this month . |
| 18 | Reports and returns relating to manpower were based on the position as it stood on the last day of the relevant month . |
| 19 | Mr. Leggatt said the recession had affected the industry to a minimal degree , ‘ When it comes to the last rites people will have what they best feel suits the deceased . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Donald Dewar , Shadow Scottish Secretary , said Labour had fought an ‘ outstanding campaign ’ which would see it winning more than its present 48 of Scotland 's 72 seats at Westminster ; more , even , than the 50 it held at the last election . |