Example sentences of "[adv] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It showed an elderly couple being given their meal by a uniformed WRVS woman who was asking them if the food had been all right the last time . |
| 2 | Right the last meeting was nineteenth of January last Wednesday . |
| 3 | And then very very importantly the last mnemonic ANNA cos that really is belt and braces , it 's tying the whole thing up so the guy knows exactly why you 're gon na come back . |
| 4 | He was dead the last time I saw him . ’ |
| 5 | In the unpublished ‘ Epilogue ’ to that work , we learn that Shadowfax will be saved too , to be taken on the last ship from the Havens to Aman , simply because Gandalf could not bear the parting . |
| 6 | ‘ Much better the last couple of days . ’ |
| 7 | The brilliance of the morning caused her to vow that Doreen would be unable to spoil that particular part of the day , and suddenly the last vestige of her previous depression vanished . |
| 8 | A local tombstone recording the death in 1806 of John Taylor , potter , is apparently the last reference to pot-making at Silkstone . |
| 9 | We were apparently the last straw . |
| 10 | They knew every day you , when you went on the rounds they knew just where to stop and start , especially the last pony I had . |
| 11 | He had enough the last time did he ? |
| 12 | ‘ Thank God , ’ he muttered , as he started to scramble down the last foot or two to seize the halter shank that dangled so near , and yet just out of his reach . |
| 13 | This is a tricky exercise , but easier if you keep your glove at arm level , shield the bird from the wind with your body , and do n't try to jump down the last foot or two , and so jar the bird . |
| 14 | The emergence of such standards , and the ability to re-use programs written in conventional languages , should bring down the last barriers to wide acceptance of parallel computing . |
| 15 | We have even seen lecturers complete their lectures and leave the room while the students have had to sit for another few minutes taking down the last load from the blackboard ! |
| 16 | He impulsively ran down the last flight of stairs . |
| 17 | Later , she washed down the last table and put the final glass in the dishwasher . |
| 18 | This review is perhaps the last chance this century to get things right . |
| 19 | Perhaps the last word might go to L. R. McColvin , whose views on the relationship between book provision and demand make interesting reading 35 years after they were written . |
| 20 | Perhaps the last word should be given to Caroline Moorehead , who has edited the eight volumes of Dame Freya 's letters and deserves to be listened to . |
| 21 | Perhaps the last word belongs to a letter written with panache and tongue in the cheek by Arthur Dimmock , the BDA 's most distinguished and prolific deaf journalist and a future member of its executive : So the offensive word " dumb " has at length been dropped from the title of this country 's major organisation . |
| 22 | Perhaps the last word should be left to the acerbic ‘ DS ’ in the TLS : ‘ The desperation of this roster — some of the writers have yet to publish their first novels — is self-evident . |
| 23 | PERHAPS the last word on the ‘ Blood Kit ’ business , from a lady in Newton Aycliffe whose maternal grandfather a chap called Harry Gent was landlord in the early twentieth century . |
| 24 | He belonged to perhaps the last generation in which it was possible to be very successful in science by making one 's own way , rather than following a standard pattern . |
| 25 | Perhaps the last occasion on which they figured at all prominently was at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia in 1856 . |
| 26 | ARCHIE BINDING , who has died aged 105 , was perhaps the last survivor of those Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps airmen who crewed airships in the First World War . |
| 27 | But perhaps the last concert , when Paragon joined with the Caput Ensemble , outdid all the events . |
| 28 | Perhaps the last point first just to get that one out the way . |
| 29 | Otherwise that person having worked for four different employers during the forty years will not retire on two-thirds of final salary , but will retire on two-thirds er only perhaps the last employer for the last ten years . |
| 30 | It reached staggering heights at Boston Park Square ( 1872–4 ) , Worcester , Massachusetts ( 1875–6 ) , Indianapolis Union ( 1886–9 ) , and supremely at Waterbury , Connecticut ( 1909 ) , perhaps the last example , where the campanile duplicated the height of the station building some two and a half times . |