Example sentences of "[prep] the last [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More ominously , some are now asking whether the days are numbered for the last of the Edwardian motor cars — Rolls-Royce was founded in Manchester in 1904 — and whether cars of this size , weight and cost can really be justified in an era of increased social awareness and growing environmental concerns . |
| 2 | On 18 December 1989 , Nicolae Ceauşescu arrived in Teheran for the last of countless travels abroad . |
| 3 | For the last of scavenger/predatory cats , we return to the Arrowana 's native regions where the Goeldiella eques can be found . |
| 4 | Peter himself , robing in the vestry at Quindale for the last of the special Lent evening services — theme : ‘ Can there be change without sacrifice in a Christian world ? ’ — was not thinking of Daniel Byrne . |
| 5 | On 16 April , the day of the vigil , I put on my smart suit for the last of the interviews and went into work to look through the papers . |
| 6 | A miserably dull , windy and cold Saturday morning beckoned for the last of my Island days and Ewen very kindly had given up his spare time to run me around the Stornoway locality before dropping me off at the airport . |
| 7 | At half past four the morose office messenger would slink in with his brief case for the last of the week 's mail , ducking the cheerful insults the girls would fling at him . |
| 8 | It was here that Joe Carr demolished the American Bob Cochran for the last of his three victories in 1960 , and a warm welcome awaits Joe , an historic triumph . |
| 9 | Hill gradually moves up the grid … he 's second for the last of the starts but his engine is n't quite powerful enough and comes home in fourth spot … |
| 10 | Even the goalkeeper , Peter Schmeichel , came right upfield for the last of Manchester 's 14 corners . |
| 11 | SINGER Melanie O'Reilly drew a standing-room only attendance for the last of the inaugural season of Assembly Direct 's ‘ The Jazz Club ’ promotions . |
| 12 | It should be worth waiting for the last in which Mick Ryan 's Les Amis ( 3.40 ) is well drawn and must be fancied on her two lengths defeat of Quinta Royale at Folkestone . |
| 13 | He managed to connect all the moves except for the last in one push and doubtless would have succeeded given more time . |
| 14 | The overstretch of the regular army did not become a major political issue during the last of years of the Conservative Government ( then under Douglas Home , who succeeded Macmillan in October 1963 ) : it was a legacy left to Labour when they came to power in October 1964 . |
| 15 | Should one see him as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites ? |
| 16 | ‘ Easy now , ’ Alec was more relaxed as the last of the metal dropped into the sand . |
| 17 | As the last of their horses plunged across , Perry and Whipple 's cavalry approached . |
| 18 | As the last of the boys arrived I thought that maybe I could just make my way to the back of the queue , or sprint back to the changing room on one pretext or another and conveniently lose my place in the line . |
| 19 | ‘ No poem of mine was composed under circumstances more pleasant for me to remember than this , ’ Wordsworth wrote : Cottle 's home in Wine Street was probably the setting in which ‘ Tintern Abbey ’ reached written form , and almost at once it was chosen to take a place of honour as the last of the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 20 | In the final collected edn. of SB it appears as the last of the seven items grouped under the title ‘ Our Parish ’ to form the first section of the book . |
| 21 | Most of the furniture was familiar to him from boyhood visits to his grandparents , inherited by his aunt as the last of her generation . |
| 22 | On Malta the reduced Axis air activity as the last of the German aircraft departed Sicily allowed more offensive action to be put in hand . |
| 23 | As the last of the concrete missile silos of Alma-Ata slipped away beneath him , Vologsky made his final preparations for the mission proper . |
| 24 | The view from the rocky summit of Shutlingsloe is certainly impressive , especially in the late evening as the last of the sun 's rays form a silver ribbon on the Merse , 35 miles away . |
| 25 | We are being billed as the last of the red-hot lovers . ’ |
| 26 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 27 | We reached that long final traverse on what looks like an arc of crumbling cheese as the last of our fellow gladiators was disappearing from view . |
| 28 | As the last of the day disappeared , there were two lights in the blackness . |
| 29 | As the last of the lorries went in , the trouble started . |
| 30 | As the last of the militiamen were swallowed up by the forest a great roar of delight rose from the gipsies and they crowded around Noah to congratulate him on the unexpected victory he had scored over the Burford magistrate . |