Example sentences of "[verb] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we met the last time . |
| 2 | Nicolo watched as Caroline spooned the last bit of tiramisu from her dessert plate . |
| 3 | Samuel Barber 's Adagio for Strings was well enough played but lacked the last ounce of passion , and suffered badly from the aurally obtrusive air conditioning system , Randall Thompson 's Alleluya showed that the Festival Chorus on this occasion were equally as adept at unaccompanied singing as their counterparts had been last week . |
| 4 | ‘ Tomorrow , ’ she said , ‘ nudging the last float of ice at the penguin 's feet , ‘ tomorrow you 'll feel different — trust me ! ’ |
| 5 | Jump the gap and make your way down the steps and platforms to another ladder , pick up another crate to your left and climb down the ladder , kill the workman and run right ( out of the building ) , get on the lift and jump into the little room ( this contains a couple of records ) , get the crate and climb up the ladder to kill the last workman , get on the lift to your left and go to the top , jump onto the platform , and the next , and the next , until you reach the furthest one where there 's an extra life . |
| 6 | Christina had just received the last consignment of furniture , arriving in the nick of time to prevent it being dumped higgledy-piggledy in the reception hall . |
| 7 | A SPECIAL task force yesterday unearthed the last £140,000 of the ransom money handed over after estate agent Stephanie Slater was kidnapped . |
| 8 | A shower of jeers greeted him from the queue and , as he passed the last boy , who was just out of sight of Mr Gillis , a foot shot out , caught him on the ankle and down he went , sprawling on the wooden floor . |
| 9 | We passed the last houses , the last streetlights . |
| 10 | We also hear , incidentally , that Dr Mowlam and Tory candidate Robert Goodwill shared the last waltz ( ‘ not quite cheek to cheek ’ says the gallant Goodwill ) at the Langbaurgh council 's chairman 's ball on Friday . |
| 11 | The drama was not quite over because all three players managed to hit the last green in two shots , and Harley , by dint of a nice kick forward when the ball pitched , was no more than six feet from the hole . |
| 12 | The Queen 's cousin made a public plea to construction giant Trafalgar House not to demolish the last hangar at Brooklands in Weybridge , Surrey . |
| 13 | Blake drunk the last drops of his beer and left . |
| 14 | During the seven-year period 1642 to 1649 , parliament also designated the last Wednesday of each month as a solemn day of ‘ fasting and humiliation ’ , which was to be observed by abstinence from food and drink and attendance at a day-long round of religious exercises aimed at producing both personal and national reformation . |
| 15 | On Nov. 27 the Federal Court ruled that the half-canton of Appenzell-Innerrhoden should grant women the vote at cantonal and communal level with immediate effect , a decision breaching the last bastion of all-male suffrage in Europe . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I wo n't cry over spilt milk , ’ Karen said as she finally recovered the last smithereen of dog . |
| 17 | The students repeat the last segment several times with correct stress and intonation . |
| 18 | If the silence lasts too long for you to feel comfortable , repeat the last thing the person just said or say , ‘ I 'm not sure how to read your silence ’ or ‘ Looks like you 're having some interesting thoughts -would you like to say anything about them ? ’ |
| 19 | Toney made the last day and the final two rounds , and I was on my way . |
| 20 | Their cattle are finished : they made the last batch of bread with oxblood to save what 's left of the water , and they drink that mixed with wine , of which there is n't all that much , either . |
| 21 | Hence the marginal cost of producing the last film must be the value of the meals sacrificed by using the last units of labour to make films rather than meals . |
| 22 | Using the last example of a bond with a dirty price of 96.50 , coupon payments of 8.75 per annum and a year to maturity , we get the following yields to maturity : |
| 23 | Morton said quietly , watching as the tall man lowered the last crate into the hold . |
| 24 | Delaney lowered the last photograph . |
| 25 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 26 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 27 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 28 | If this excluded option is allowed back into the debate , and the claim that our existing intuitions should not be given the last word is seriously considered , the authority of the case for individualism is immediately questioned . |
| 29 | The large urban local authorities which remain the last bastion of Labour power have tried to undercut New Right attacks by improving the efficiency and quality of their services , and becoming more responsive to their users ( Fenwick 1989 ; Young 1991 ) . |
| 30 | 30 June 1989 found most of the battalion not on guard in bearskins and tunics , but enjoying the last day of a fortnight 's shooting on the ranges at Salisbury Plain , on ISAAC . |