Example sentences of "[verb] the last of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would glean the last of the coffee but hardly got paid anything . |
| 2 | Richie emptied the last of the Glenlivet bottle into their glasses . |
| 3 | Willie had completed the last of the ‘ Learning to Read ’ books . |
| 4 | The typical justification for undergraduate courses involves the last of the issues related to academic courses : the distinction between ‘ content ’ and ‘ process ’ . |
| 5 | Only a mile on , they passed the last of the Home outposts , at Dunglass , in a strong position above another of these precipitous deans ; and soon thereafter Dunbar came in sight , town and castle jutting into the Norse Sea , the eastern gateway to the fertile Lothians , red in blood to match the now prevailing redness in soil and stone . |
| 6 | On June 5 , the Slovenian Assembly passed the last of the key laws to facilitate " the takeover of actual power " and Radio Ljubljana began a three-day presentation on the Slovenian independence process in which the Slovenian government participated . |
| 7 | In 1910 he made the last of his great journeys across China , travelling from Honan in Central China to Russian Turkestan , a distance of 3,750 miles in 174 days . |
| 8 | It would help dispel unhappy memories for Whiteside who made the last of his 38 Northern Ireland appearances in a 3–0 Dublin defeat in 1989 before injury cruelly ended his career at just 26 . |
| 9 | He made the last of his 51 appearances against Scotland in 1984 . |
| 10 | Indraugnir howled and lashed out at the Bloodthirster with renewed fury , using the last of his fading strength to keep the Blood God 's follower at bay . |
| 11 | He said it was important that the pace of change was ‘ right ’ but refused to say when he expected the last of the doomed homes to say goodbye to its last resident . |
| 12 | He looked up to see the last of them swing a booted foot over the Baglietto 's taffrail . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's one I 'd like to see the last of as well . ’ |
| 14 | Mike says that filming the hunt was be far the hardest job he has ever done , and he was certainly relieved to see the last of running through the forest during the rainy season . |
| 15 | It was a relief to see the last of them . |
| 16 | Finally they let her go — the mother convinced that a boggle had possessed her daughter and only too glad to see the last of her , the father , heartbroken , soon to submit to an illness which his former self would have beaten off quite easily . |
| 17 | Virgin 's sale of one quarter of its music business to the entertainment and leisure giant , Fujisankei , ensures that it will remain the last of the world 's independent record companies — for the time being , at least . |
| 18 | The other girl laid the last of the flowers in position , and slammed the van doors shut . |
| 19 | The late afternoon slid into night , bringing a touch of frost and sapping the last of warmth and cheerfulness . |
| 20 | ‘ Will we , misses ? ’ he asked and his air of total belief in her banished the last of Hari 's uncertainty . |
| 21 | I got the last of them . |
| 22 | US officials believe they have not heard the last of the Soviet proposal for naval nuclear disarmament , which was carefully phrased to echo a similar plan put forward unofficially by the veteran US arms negotiator , Mr Paul Nitze . |
| 23 | But what persuades me that we have not heard the last of Havel the writer is that he combines a total commitment to social freedom and individual responsibility with an extraordinary ironic detachment . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've not heard the last of this , ’ Swire Sugden threatened as he stormed out of the church hall . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't think you 've heard the last of this matter , ’ he said through his teeth , ‘ you wo n't get away with it , taking from me my home and my birthright , I should have been the eldest son , I am more worthy of the position . |
| 26 | ‘ He said , if I remember correctly , something like , ‘ We have n't heard the last of this ’ while beating his nose black and blue with his Biro . ’ |
| 27 | She really had thought she 'd heard the last of that voice . |
| 28 | The police do n't think we 've heard the last of the attackers who seem prepared to endanger many lives in an attempt to reach their targets . |
| 29 | He was eating the last of the pie with gusto . |
| 30 | WELL THERE GOES THE LAST OF THE MEALS ON WHEELS . |