Example sentences of "[verb] with the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Results in the £1,000 Hathaway fours at the Morrison Centre showed that three games were won with the last bowl and another finished all square in a very competitive tournament . |
| 2 | With this type of valve ( of which the Garston or BRS valve is the best known ) , there is no moving piston — rather a rubber diaphragm which closes over a nylon seating with the last movement of the float arm . |
| 3 | Well I thought well I 'll , just think about what I want with the last five pounds . |
| 4 | He looked round him , upon the desolation of the field between Bryn Glas and the river , littered and faintly heaving still with bodies and cast arms , and groaning with the last convulsions of struggle and pain . |
| 5 | That came with the last lot that I got . |
| 6 | And what shall we do with the last pizza so that |
| 7 | The 1st was the coldest night of the month in some places , vying with the last two nights of February , with very few really frosty nights in between . |
| 8 | So when Sam and Harry finally returned to harbour with the last catches of the week , there was a crowd of a hundred or more people present to see the fish landed and the final reckoning made . |
| 9 | After it she felt soothed of any irritation she may have felt with the last letter , wiped her mouth with satisfaction , and picked up the Oswaldston Gazette . |
| 10 | Although he suggests that the three possibilities need not be mutually exclusive , Baker 's sympathies clearly lie with the last of these ; but many scientists still need convincing that man can make use of a built-in magnetic compass , even if he possesses one . |
| 11 | As Tsar he was inclined to agree with the last person he had spoken to and to authorize wholly incompatible initiatives by different ministers . |
| 12 | Discussion revealed that women 's interests lay very much with lambing , first aid , dairy husbandry and financial management although quite a few were doubtful about their capacity to cope with the last of these subjects . |
| 13 | ‘ If the author be a wealthy man ’ , said a reviewer in 1799 , ‘ he ought not to have suffered the poor peasant to part with the last of the flock ’ . |
| 14 | This delay allows the micro to determine the signal peak value between zero crossings , each being compared with the last one ( IN0 ) and with a threshold value ( THRESHOLD ) . |
| 15 | ‘ It would need a change of culture compared with the last 13 years , ’ said one senior civil servant . |
| 16 | Development revenue was expected to be almost Rps10,400,000 million , including programme aid of Rps1,500,000 million and project aid of Rps8,900,000 million — representing a reduction compared with the last budget . |
| 17 | In elections in the south-eastern province of Styria ( Steiermark ) on Sept. 22 , the far-right opposition Freedom Party of Austria ( Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs — FPÖ — whose leader , Jörg Haider , had in June been compelled to step down as governor of Carinthia — see p. 38298 ) made significant gains , increasing its support by more than 10 per cent to 14.6 per cent , compared with the last elections in 1986 [ see p. 34695 ] . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's a lot more darkness in this second TV series compared with the last one but darkness is what comedy is all about . |
| 19 | She hurried back down to put away the food already in the kitchen , and by the time Penry returned with the last couple of boxes she had a tea-tray waiting , complete with a plate of tempting cakes from the small bakery in Brides Haven . |
| 20 | If a sentence is long or otherwise difficult , mimic one phrase at a time , beginning with the last one , then adding the penultimate one , and so on successively till you can manage the whole utterance . |
| 21 | I must thank you for replying so promptly to the questionnaire which we enclosed with the last issue of The Birmingham Magazine . |
| 22 | The name of Hastings is , of course , inextricably linked with the last successful invasion of Britain when the French arrived , conquered the English and a new age of Norman influence and culture spread throughout England . |
| 23 | Date , time , Sao 2 , plethysmographic waveforms , skin po 2 , breathing movements , and electrocardiograms were continuously monitored and recorded on to a 128 kB digital memory card ( 86×54×3 mm ) , which was continually updated with the last 20–30 minutes of data . |
| 24 | He read carefully , starting with the last issue where the facts would be most accurate , and working back . |
| 25 | ‘ within the limits of an uncontrolled zebra crossing ’ This point is proved with the last point and mention can be made that the crossing was not controlled . |
| 26 | She was just finishing with the last when there was a shout from Reception . |
| 27 | A drop of Drosera in the 30th dilution succussed with 20 strokes of the arm at each dilution , given as a dose to a child suffering from whooping-cough , endangers life , whereas , if the dilution phials are succussed only twice a , globule the size of a poppy seed moistened with the last dilution cures it readily . ’ |
| 28 | At the beginning of December 1939 , Fred Dunstan was one of the adults who went with the last group of children from the transit camp to ‘ Bydown ’ , not far from Barnstaple in North Devon . |
| 29 | The war came nearer and my family went with the last train out of Maymyo , with hundreds of Anglo-Burman mothers and children proceeding northwards to Shwebo or Myitkyina for air evacuation to Assam . |
| 30 | The heyday of the railways coincided with the last great age of monarchy . |