Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catriona wiped down the last of her tables and suddenly realised that the conversation around her had stopped . |
| 2 | She caught only the last few words : ‘ the sooner this dangerous person is apprehended the better ’ , and switched off in frustration . |
| 3 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 4 | I used up the last of the film and we headed towards the airfield . |
| 5 | The next day he drew out the last of his savings from the bank and left for Cornwall . |
| 6 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 7 | In a corner of the great library Arlott would gleefully construe his winners and losers , shed a tear as Leo Harrison or Barry Reed presented an ornamented mug as token of thanks , serve the unchanging banquet of watercress soup and venison , then watch with avuncular pride as the best arms in Hampshire cricket , Reed or Harrison , laid low the last coconuts of Alresford Fair , the midnight lights now glowing . |
| 8 | Meryl handed over the last of the spoils , a nail file and some kind of newspaper cutting , then settled in her seat to give her full attention to the lecture . |
| 9 | They were underlined by Labour 's Defence Review of 1974–5 which committed Britain 's ground forces solely to the defending of continental Europe , and stripped away the last fragments of the country 's global pretensions . |
| 10 | The forest air was cool on her naked limbs as Adam stripped away the last of her clothes and she was aware of a glorious feeling of freedom , totally devoid of embarrassment , as he gazed at her , his eyes sweeping boldly over her body , drinking their fill . |
| 11 | He raced up the last few stairs and took her in his arms . |
| 12 | Riven threw back the last of his beer . |
| 13 | She poured out the last of the coffee , then looked up into my horrified eyes . |
| 14 | Outside , the snow blotted out the last irregularities in the flowerbed , making it one with the lawn . |
| 15 | That 's the summary I handed out the last week , you would n't have got |
| 16 | After a while , of course , the woebegone aspect of the crossed-in-love becomes very irritating , especially if one is being unjustly blamed for it , so Lydia ripped out the last of the fluff that formed , as it were , the bird 's underclothes , rose to her feet gripping her pheasant by its knees , and then bent over and kissed Beuno . |
| 17 | A muddy cut through the jungle showed where the last car had passed around it . |
| 18 | A rusting hulk at the bottom of the pit showed where the last car had n't . |
| 19 | She sniffed away the last of her tears and slipped the piece of dirty , rose-covered wallpaper into her carrier bag . |
| 20 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 21 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
| 22 | She remembers the way the sun would sink down as the combine sliced out the last ranks of the wheat . |
| 23 | As Rabbi Glikstein read out the last rites at his levoyah , those words rang in my ears . |
| 24 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
| 25 | Already weak and exposed where Midnight was concerned , this unexpected consideration broke down the last of the barriers Jess had constructed against the old woman . |
| 26 | Above their heads the clock ticked away the last thirty minutes of the old year . |
| 27 | Below Georgiades his men leapt up the last few pegs . |
| 28 | They stood up and , abandoning their ice pitons , started up the last , short ice field , cutting foot holds with their picks . |
| 29 | Most damningly , it was the SDLP which brought down the last Labour Government . |
| 30 | Gerry Fitt with the full support of his party brought down the last Labour government over a decision which greatly enhanced the SDLP 's standing . |