Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually he took over their management and put them into red patent leather suits , effectively driving the last nail into The Dolls ’ coffin . |
| 2 | Valerie Stevens had been in the house to get more coffee and as she stepped through the patio doors she stood for a moment staring at Rachel in horror , having only heard the last part of the conversation . |
| 3 | I mean she was only seeing the last one off when I came home from work ! |
| 4 | He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves . |
| 5 | I then turned back onto Sky Sports only to catch the last 5 minutes or so . |
| 6 | I avoided M.O.D saturday evening ( WHY have the cameras for our worst home result since about 1980 ? ? ? ? ) , and only caught the last 3 goals on the Sky roundup on sunday . |
| 7 | NO ONE was brave enough to grant the last wish of remarkable 11-year-old Kelly Good . |
| 8 | For a moment , Folly was taken aback , but then she realised that the policeman had probably only seen the last few seconds of their little drama . |
| 9 | In parts of India , goats graze the cotton after harvest and so remove the last few infested bolls and stalks . |
| 10 | To sort of make out s make sure you 've got this and that so you 're ready for the confinement and er But they only came the last minute when when they were the ma mams were expecting their babies . |
| 11 | Oh you 'd better do the last one Doctor |
| 12 | However it just so happens the last time an election was n't on a Thursday was in er I think it was nineteen thirty one when it was held on a Tuesday . |
| 13 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 14 | When asked to describe auditory sensations , McKellar 's subjects frequently reported hearing snatches of music which could be recurrent … as is illustrated by a subject who recurrently imaged the last movement of Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto . |
| 15 | WORLD cricket has distilled itself into the English game : the World Cup is over , South Africa have played their first Test match against the West Indies and now the far flung stars of these international matches have flown in to fill the last few places in the carousel of English county cricket . |
| 16 | We can perhaps clarify the last two methods by means of a simple example . |
| 17 | Susannah Lopez should perhaps have the last word : |
| 18 | We only switched the last few minutes on . |
| 19 | Er but I am going to take your books in at the end of the lesson so you can perhaps take the last few minutes before just if you 'll just erm put the sums at the moment erm just fix in your sheet fix it in and erm check out that you 've got everything else up to date okay ? |
| 20 | You can maintain ‘ official ownership ’ of your case by summarising for the minutes ( 'Following my proposal the meeting agreed … ' ) and by literally having the last word on the item : ‘ So we 're agreed on that . |
| 21 | On the next landing up , there was a faint suggestion of Chanel No. 9 and a small , tell-tale movement of a door swiftly closing the last two inches . |
| 22 | I remember coming into the store one Saturday at five minutes to four , I apologised for being so late and you said to me ‘ That 's alright Sir , we only shoot the last three ’ . |
| 23 | We only saw the last |
| 24 | Some are finding it easier to talk about their past as each weekly get together follows the last . |
| 25 | So did the last sentiment , however blandly it was presented . |
| 26 | So begins the last of the Ten Commandments ( Exodus 20:17 ) . |
| 27 | Triumph did develop the Stag a little , but not enough to make the last of the series significantly better than the first . |
| 28 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I wo n't cry over spilt milk , ’ Karen said as she finally recovered the last smithereen of dog . |
| 30 | The Queen 's cousin made a public plea to construction giant Trafalgar House not to demolish the last hangar at Brooklands in Weybridge , Surrey . |