Example sentences of "[conj] on the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open 9.30am-7.30 pm , except on the last day , when the show closes at 5pm . |
| 2 | ‘ I could not help recalling , ’ Sir Maurice Hankey , the Cabinet Secretary , wrote in his diary in September , ‘ that on the last day of Parliament Mr. Baldwin had walked across the yard outside [ the House of Commons ] and had said ‘ I will do everything I can to help the Government in making economies , but I will not enter a Coalition Government . ' |
| 3 | In the Wessex Dairies case , it was found that on the last day of his employment as a milkman the defendant , whilst on his round , informed customers that he would soon cease to be employed by the plaintiffs , that he was going to set up business on his own and could supply them with milk . |
| 4 | Anyway , when he , when he came back again we had to come back cos see we had another delivery of gravel and we ordered three yards and we reckon that on the last journey we bought two yards , we 've got over a yard too much gravel ! |
| 5 | Even in a country like India , Test cricket no longer generates massive appeal , and on the last full tour there — by the West Indies — a 12-match international programme was split 8-4 in favour of the instant thrill . |
| 6 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 7 | In 1981 and 1982 the group had visited the test site with their ship the Vega and on the last occasion had been attacked and arrested by the French Navy as they attempted to enter the 12-mile territorial limit . |
| 8 | Nana 's neighbours risked their rusted axles to carry up heavy goods for the store , and on the last Tuesday of each month the soda company sent a small pickup to collect its empty bottles . |
| 9 | Pigs are good because with one along there is no need to bring a toilet and on the last night the pig can be eaten . |
| 10 | And on the last day he led the girl he loved to a shack he had built behind their tiny house and which he called his studio . |
| 11 | On Tuesdays and Fridays , for example , the old quarter is busy with the fruit , flower and vegetable markets , and on the last Saturday of every month , it is enlivened by the traditional flea market . |
| 12 | Down in Chesney St Michael-in-the-Moor tolled the hour — six , seven , eight , and on the last note , the red light glimmered and failed , the harp-like shadows fled and the Altar became once more a sheet of half-buried stone . |
| 13 | On two evenings there were demonstration experiments , in electricity , optics , magnetism and gyroscopes , with an exhibition of photographs of the Moon ; and on the last evening was a meeting where the proceedings of the General Committee and the allocation of grants were explained to members . |
| 14 | Yes , and the girls had three months ' notice to leave and on the last day at three months I heard that a young lady had left the Post Office . |
| 15 | He showed her over the nearby castle , took her for long drives , and on the last day of his — as he called it — ‘ snatched holiday ’ , seemingly relaxed and happy to be playing truant from the demands of his busy life , he drove to Bettystown . |
| 16 | Up to this point , West had shown up with 4 Clubs and 3 Hearts and on the last Club had discarded a Spade . |
| 17 | He was wounded eight times altogether , and on the last occasion he succeeded in getting into the air before the scars were properly healed . |
| 18 | But on the Last Day certainly God will call the drunkards of the world to Him : . |
| 19 | But on the last Page of the novel ‘ life had taken the place of dialectics ’ , and Raskolnikov is on his way home . |
| 20 | Yes , but On the last comment that er Chris made er bringing us and the letter to county about the the failure of the meeting on the twenty second cos we feel that they are just lying down to the situation and not pursuing a pursuing the D A P about whatsoever and erm we are , certainly in John 's letter probably get it signed tonight complaining and asking for a a meeting as soon as possible because we feel that that they ought to be pursuing the question of these two sites , they 're dragging their feet ! |
| 21 | The court heard Pinnell , now of Halsway Cottage , Crowcombe , Taunton , Somerset , had taken the car on several occasions but on the last one crashed it into a dry stone wall . |
| 22 | I knew Granpa wanted me to stay on at school and improve my readin' and writin' , but on the last Friday of term in December 1913 I walked out of the gates of Jubilee Street Elementary , with my father 's blessing . |
| 23 | If it is pressed while on the last input field of a line , then the cursor will be moved to the first input field of the next line . |
| 24 | Furthermore , if it is pressed while on the last input field of the last line of a scrolled area , then it has the same effect as EXIT SCROLLED AREA FORWARDS , described below . |
| 25 | While on the last input field of this line , pressing TAB will enable you to leave the scrolled area . |
| 26 | Pressing TAB while on the last page of the mail message will also take you to the Print/Retain/Delete prompt . |
| 27 | It can be a planning tool for the library management , a statement of purpose for the board or governing body , and a source of information for library users — though on the last point some libraries may find it politic not to make known priorities so openly to their public . |
| 28 | You may have seen one or two before , but I make no excuse for showing them again as on the last occasion they did not come out very well . |
| 29 | As on the last occasion , he had chosen County Monaghan which was an area he knew well and adjacent to the Ulster border . |