Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European market for acetate filament yarn is expected to shrink slightly during 1993 — disappointing but not such a blow as that experienced during the last two years which saw the market in Europe tumble from 40,000 tons to 30,000 . |
| 2 | Freud moved from Vienna in 1938 , when the Nazis took over , and lived for the last year of his life in London . |
| 3 | I think what I 'm trying to say is , in the minutes that we produced for the last meeting , it says that a copy of it will be available for the next meeting |
| 4 | Julie waited outside while Donna and Langton passed through the last door into the vault itself . |
| 5 | Alexander ‘ Greek ’ Thomson has an international reputation for the buildings he designed during the last century . |
| 6 | It was a slow-going mile , but towards the end one could hear occasional cars along the road ahead and Gareth and Coconut with whoops crashed through the last few yards , again , as the week before , relieved to be back in the space age . |
| 7 | At the door , she stopped for the last time . |
| 8 | He was a champion of 19th century book illustration , which he regarded as the last relatively unexplored corner of the English artistic tradition . |
| 9 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 10 | The route became circular in 1906 , going to Bolton Abbey and back , and in 1915 it changed for the last time . |
| 11 | for example , for the typical dieter we described in the last chapter , her goals for Week 1 are as follows . |
| 12 | As we described in the last chapter , blueprints ( some of which are not available to conscious recall ) weigh heavily among the factors which determine our motives , choices and behaviour . |
| 13 | The legal bond can be a useful container while partners struggle to come to terms with the ‘ me in you ’ , the phenomenon we described in the last chapter . |
| 14 | Clive and Rose Greenacre , also described in the last chapter , continued to live out their shared problem of fearing abandonment . |
| 15 | The closer we allow ourselves to get to another , the more we are affected and influences both consciously and unconsciously through the projective system or defence we described in the last two chapters . |
| 16 | The debate started from agreement about the outcome to be explained — the kinds of data given in the previous section — and about the broad changes , also described in the last section , which had been involved . |
| 17 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 18 | The large house on the corner is the Bylandt-Rheidtovsky Palace ( 13/171 ) built in the last quarter of the 17C . |
| 19 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
| 20 | If " adornment " is to be identified in linguistic patterns which have no semantic utility , we can point to the alliterations clustered in the last few lines . |
| 21 | The distinction between grammar and lexis which we used in the last chapter cuts across this distinction between levels . |
| 22 | Furthermore , in the great flowering of Viennese intellectual life which occurred in the last decade of the nineteenth century , the party contributed a galaxy of famous intellectuals — Karl Kautsky ( who , through his journal , Neue Zeit , and his role in the German party , became the most influential Marxist of his time ) , Victor Adler himself and his mentor , Carl Gruneberg , Max Adler , Otto Bauer , Rudolf Hilferding , Karl Renner etc . |
| 23 | The greatest changes in the technology and style of the brooches in Kent occurred in the last quarter of the sixth century with the introduction of solid gold objects decorated with filigree and cloisonné work replacing gilded silver objects . |
| 24 | It was noticeable that infringements occurred in the last quarter more than in the rest of the game and I put this down to tiredness and a resulting lack of concentration . |
| 25 | This tragedy occurred in the last Grand Prix race on the old circuit and was won by James Hunt in a McLaren . |
| 26 | Why , as urban sociologists such as those we reviewed in the last chapter argued , should a spatial or urban sociology not also be concerned with the class relations of production ? |
| 27 | the sun rose on the last of Alamein . |
| 28 | And his voice rose on the last two words . |
| 29 | Look back at any crises which occurred over the last few years . |
| 30 | Now contrary to what we 'd been informed erm the problem occurred over the last couple of days and having spoken to the ladies in the laboratory , the problem has n't been purely on line five machine . |