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

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1 In minutes the last remnants of life on the planet were gone .
2 ln that case the last clause — ‘ in that land were we born ’ — is no patriotic bugle-note , but rather a flat acknowledgement of what can not be helped .
3 The whole kaleidoscope is there in the memory : how proud we were of our daughter Sara 's acting ability , at junior school , at senior and at college ; and of our younger , very shy son , who managed a one-line walk-on part the last year in junior school , but wrote , acted in , sang in and played for a satirical revue at University .
4 Archaos The Last Show On Earth as envisaged by this French circus troupe is a mixture of Mad Max , The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle and Billy Smart .
5 But Harry spoke a bit the last time we went , he said So what hire a car .
6 I if I was a building the last thing I would want would be people gawping at me .
7 There would n't be an I R A only for internment the last time .
8 This last issue is of course the last link in the chain leading to high vulnerability to depression .
9 When he is sentenced to gaol he pleads in mitigation that he ‘ might have been a better citizen if I 'd had the levels ’ , to a Judge who did n't understand what he was saying , and of course the last page sees him studying for ‘ the levels ’ in prison .
10 Lawrence bowling the last ball of this over and it 's a bouncer and gets underneath it , he 's six , DaSilva is eighteen , it 's a hundred and eighteen for three and after a word for big it will be Brian Johnston .
11 Echo and The Bunnymen : The Arena , Middlesbrough THE last time Echo & The Bunnymen graced a stage in Middlesbrough they brought their own detective story with them entitled The Strange Case of the Disappearing Audience .
12 Shit the last time yeah , the last time I was there I was so fucked , I had what a pint of cider , we did Tequila shots
13 Yanto went on to tell Billy about his experience the last time he had used Selwyn 's lavatory .
14 One of the most important contributions that Syremont has made to art conservation is that of Leonardo da Vinci 's brilliant masterpiece the Last Supper on the wall of the church of Santa Maria delle Gracie in Milan ( Chem .
15 And another thing you have n't paid me for shoeing the horse the last time . ’
16 About 20 minutes ' worth of space-age special effects were created for the 1984 movie The Last Starfighter .
17 Is Volvo the last car maker to use an add-on overdrive ?
18 He was run off his legs the last time and he had only just been paid for the quarter . ’
19 Each of these steps must be an improvement , or , bearing in mind the last section , at least not a deterioration .
20 In other words the last male to mate usually has the best chance of fertilising the eggs .
21 In Hungary the last combat units are due out on March 31st .
22 In the Gold Coast the last sentiment was potentially practical politics , for mass politicisation had begun among two important sections of the people of the coast , the cocoa farmers and the ex-servicemen : indeed , the cocoa farmers had first flexed their muscles in 1937 when they refused to sell to the European firms who bought 98 per cent of their crop ( fixing the market ) and also imposed a boycott on European imports .
23 Was n't there a big fuss though because there was n't enough effort made on the bilingual side the last survey we did ?
24 Two weeks after the great victory at Culloden the last battle of ‘ The Forty-five ’ was fought at sea in Loch nan Uamh , a sea inlet on the coast of Inverness-shire about 30 miles [ 48 km ] west of Fort William .
25 During the month of July , the third subscription ticket offer is for the repertory season of four thrillers , beginning with A Murder Has Been Arranged , from July 7–11 , Deadly Nightcap by Francis Durbridge from July 14–18 , Peril at End House by Agatha Christie which runs from July 21–25 , and her spinning tale of adventure the Spiders Web the last week of July .
26 just just just finished no more course work the last course work I 'm ever going to do , she says Erm I 've got a hundred and twenty pieces you can help me mark . .
27 After three years ' work the last consignment of nuclear fuel rods has been removed .
28 PLYMOUTH MUSEUM & ART GALLERY The last self-portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds -regarded by many as his finest — is among a small group of 17th and 18th-century paintings loaned from the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle .
29 After small parts in movies like Roxanne , Hollywood Shuffle and Colors , his much-anticipated major feature debut in the schlockbuster The Last Boy Scout was a big disappointment .
30 Sorry bout the last msg
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