Example sentences of "[vb pp] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina had just received the last consignment of furniture , arriving in the nick of time to prevent it being dumped higgledy-piggledy in the reception hall . |
| 2 | If this excluded option is allowed back into the debate , and the claim that our existing intuitions should not be given the last word is seriously considered , the authority of the case for individualism is immediately questioned . |
| 3 | On second thoughts , she wished she had not uttered the last sentence . |
| 4 | Valerie Stevens had been in the house to get more coffee and as she stepped through the patio doors she stood for a moment staring at Rachel in horror , having only heard the last part of the conversation . |
| 5 | In the promenade bus-shelter they broke the window they had n't broken the last time they 'd visited it . |
| 6 | But had the Labour Party won the last Election they too would be facing hefty tax bills and precisely the same threat to their lavish standards of living . |
| 7 | When I say it was a Government decision I 'm not speaking politically because whoever had 've won the last election whether it be Liberal Democrats Labour or Conservative all three parties were committed to reorganizing local government . |
| 8 | He had won the last contest on points , thank God , but he knew that a series of ‘ X ’ films , and the suggestive posters that were essential to their promotion , would give Father Whatsisname just the chance he wanted to point the accusing finger . |
| 9 | Yet you still came across people who thought that South Africa would have won the last World Cup . |
| 10 | An announcement , perhaps blessed by Microsoft , is expected the last week in January . |
| 11 | I 've forgotten the last time we really enjoyed ourselves together and sat down to a meal uninterrupted by telephone calls . ’ |
| 12 | A famous passage in Virgil 's Fourth Eclogue gives expression to the concept of the ‘ Eternal Return ’ : ‘ Now is come the last age of the song of Cumae ; the great line of the centuries begins anew … |
| 13 | What I have found using these criteria will be the subject of the next two chapters , of which the chick is the sole and proud subject , but the rest of this chapter will be concerned , not with my own experiments , but those of the other hunters for god 's organism whose work has dominated the last decade . |
| 14 | He is beginning to move on from the subjects which have dominated the last couple of years , feeling that he has gleaned all the experience he can from them . |
| 15 | But Paris had not solved the last enigma . |
| 16 | By the time she had rolled the last lump of dog food into the canal , the sun was beginning to rise in the east . |
| 17 | cos he 's done the last bit , |
| 18 | Well the reality is of course that Clare has already told us that internment did n't work the last time , it was badly done the last time . |
| 19 | It 's not as if they get much study done the last week or so anyway . ’ |
| 20 | When this is done the last equation becomes . |
| 21 | The primitive inn that catered for travellers who had missed the last ferry is now a modern hotel , and commercial interests have been attracted by the growing number of tourists . |
| 22 | For those daft enough to have missed the last issue , Black Night is a twopart text driven adventure game , in which a peaceful medieval village was brought to its knees by an evil warlord . |
| 23 | J. B. Priestley recognised this in the extract chosen by Mr Hamilton from The Good Companions : ‘ … it [ Bruddersford United AFC ] offered you more than a shilling's-worth of material for talk during the rest of the week , a man who had missed the last home match of t'United had to enter social life on tiptoe in Bruddersford . ’ |
| 24 | I 've missed the last post have n't I ? |
| 25 | I am afraid you have missed the last serving of supper . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 've just missed the last bus . |
| 27 | Morgan had missed the last flight to Brussels the previous evening . |
| 28 | Tallis 's case is convincing , though he has certainly not said the last word on the matter , and there may well be further arguments from those who are professionally engaged in linguistics . |
| 29 | But in that case the expression " I was alone " would have been banal : it is only after we have felt the isolation of the speaker in all its particularity , and have seen the last vestige of human life disappear over the horizon , that we can understand the force of the simple statement . |
| 30 | Clearly er , it 's er , again in , in paragraph four , under future budget of er , the services is going to be critical , if you 've seen the last couple of years that are defined in the pay , and that 's going to continue . |