Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the last " in BNC.

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1 On about the last trip of the night-shift , around dawn , the EMU on which he was working was approaching Kirkhill , the terminal of that particular service .
2 I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years .
3 Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly .
4 The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years .
5 In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession .
6 Somerset openers Andy Hayhurst and Mark Lathwell began promisingly against the pacemen but Carrick came on for the last over before lunch and had Lathwell caught at slip off a cunningly flighted ball which turned .
7 ‘ Adam Reed came on for the last half hour and did well for a 16-year-old . ’
8 ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked .
9 John Reid , who had five winners on Wednesday , teamed up with Richard Hannon to land a gamble in Brighton 's opener on After The Last , backed from 7-4 to 11-10 .
10 The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well .
11 It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues .
12 It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly .
13 Marr watches ‘ Ouija Board ’ go down for the last time
14 AN ERA ends today when the shutters come down for the last time at the Owen Owen store in Liverpool .
15 However , with Colin Dick still on his way home from Australia , Bell fills in as the last man in defence with Alan Simpson and Michael Rainey in the centre .
16 And that is how I have got along for the last sixty six years .
17 ‘ You have n't put a mouthful in for the last ten minutes . ’
18 Cy left the cast and Michael came in for the last two weeks of rehearsals .
19 Both players were brought in for the last six weeks of the season as McHale began to look ahead to next season when the Seasiders hope to mount a serious promotion push .
20 I 've been thinking it 's needed some more in for the last few meals .
21 I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on .
22 She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter .
23 Only in about the last quarter of the century did colour printing , in the form of chromolithographs , become at all usual ; and for expensive books , hand-colouring remained the norm well into the twentieth century .
24 What we do need is the co-operation of the residents , and I must say that we are beginning to get the co-operation now and in fact many people did phone in after the last incident when the officers were assaulted , first of all asking for the condition of the officers and showing concern , and secondly giving us information .
25 Many medieval millers paid their rent to the lord of the manor in eels ; and when the water-mill in the centre of Stafford was pulled down after the last war , the laconic miller expressed as his only regret : ‘ I shall miss the eels . ’
26 Down towards the last hour I 'm the last person to drop off just trying to leave them with as many positive thoughts and perhaps talking quietly to the odd individual .
27 Tamar had allowed Victoria to stay up late to watch the leading in of the last load , which was a ritual joined in by all the estate workers .
28 When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them .
29 Does the shot fit in with the last one ?
30 El grip has been discarded , along with the last of the Band-Aids .
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