Example sentences of "[adv prt] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He picked up my suitcase and carried it up the last flight , putting it down outside my door and turning to me . |
| 32 | Wickham bounded up the last flight , shirt-sleeved , jacket in hand . |
| 33 | There 's a new batch in , about fifty , they say , to fill up the last posting . |
| 34 | He picked up the last letter . |
| 35 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 36 | The combination roared along Castle Walk , echoing into the empty courtyard of the Berkeley Hunt kennels as it careered up the last hill into the tiny village . |
| 37 | Slovenia in Milk Race CYCLING : Yugoslavia , who last competed in the Milk Race 30 years ago , will be represented by the breakaway state of Slovenia , which has joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in taking up the last places in a record field of 18 teams . |
| 38 | It was like when his Giro cheques from the unemployment people had n't turned up the last time he 'd been out of work ; it was all done to wear him down . |
| 39 | My heart cried out to it , but when I approached it , it summoned up the last dregs of its strength and paddled frantically away to the middle of the lake , where I had been instructed never to go . |
| 40 | At the DOS prompt ( > ) pressing F3 will automatically bring up the last line you typed . |
| 41 | That 's quite an advantage , you 'll be more than satisfied to discover , as you search out the last parking spot at the charity ball . |
| 42 | That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard . |
| 43 | Considering Renault 's pioneering work in turbocharging for both road and track , it comes as little surprise that the power delivery is so smooth and strong though even Renault engineers have been unable to iron out the last fraction of a second of lag between the throttle being floored and the turbo-pressure rising . |
| 44 | She remembers the way the sun would sink down as the combine sliced out the last ranks of the wheat . |
| 45 | By two o'clock , I had walked fifteen miles and was sitting on the wheelbarrow forking out the last sardine , when Mick and Paddy arrived . |
| 46 | As the sun bakes out the last moisture from the mud , the mucus turns to parchment . |
| 47 | " I 'd really like to mail a follow-up letter to all the people who sent bought more than £50 worth within 3 weeks of sending out the last brochure . " |
| 48 | Once , it had seemed that the candle of her life would burn only till Christmas , and that it was towards that single point that she was spinning out the last hours of her life . |
| 49 | As Rabbi Glikstein read out the last rites at his levoyah , those words rang in my ears . |
| 50 | Outside , the snow blotted out the last irregularities in the flowerbed , making it one with the lawn . |
| 51 | The Egyptians , who conquered western Asia in the fifteenth century BC , hunted there , having recently wiped out the last elephants in their own lands . |
| 52 | To Nell , it looked as though she would never find out the last mystery of Titron . |
| 53 | He took out the last reed — looked at it — was going to split it , but his horse reached back and snatched the reed from him . |
| 54 | The German sights in particular — torchlit orgies of Nazi triumph , Hitler ranting in Stuttgart , storm-troopers stamping out the last flickers of academic freedom in Freiburg — showed him what lay in store for Europe and are vividly recounted here . |
| 55 | While Joan Templeman was in Los Angeles with her husband , playing out the last days of her marriage , Richard Branson was in Jamaica , doing business . |
| 56 | That 's the summary I handed out the last week , you would n't have got |
| 57 | We had all this out the last time . |
| 58 | Turned out the last time the staff had seen him he was a student here and he 'd made such an arsehole of himself they 'd sworn they 'd never let him back in ! |
| 59 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
| 60 | If you can get hold of a copy of the record , check out the last section of the song and see how the whole sequence is moved up a fourth , becoming A7 , D7 , G7 and C7 , into the fade of A7 and D7 . |