Example sentences of "[vb pp] to the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | My disagreeable reaction to the photos reminded me of the way I — and a host of others — responded to the last major American exhibition of Koons ' work two years ago . |
| 2 | As I expected , the hon. Gentleman responded to the last intervention by saying that a Labour Government would simply reintroduce rates . |
| 3 | The songs , pulled direct from the John Peel and Dave Jensen sessions , were added to the last two singles and B-sides scattered , with perfect pacing , across a 16-track LP which was to retail at no more than £3.99 ( providing the retailers kept the faith which , largely , they did ) . |
| 4 | The genitive suffix is always added to the last element of a word group : the Prince of Wales 's birthday ; a day or two 's rest . |
| 5 | It should be added to the last rinse in both machine and hand washes , and is suitable for all kinds of fabric . |
| 6 | I mean if I 'd have if I 'd have , if I had come to the last one |
| 7 | Remembering how often she had bought skin care products and abandoned them she thought of the collection of half used jars and tubes in her dressing table drawer and came up this headline : " Our creams and lotions are all used up " with the striking visual of a tube squeezed to the last drop . |
| 8 | Although her owners had tried every method of finding her , including local radio appeals , Tim Charlesworth eventually turned to the last resort of hiring a helicopter to help in the search . |
| 9 | Unfortunately most of what we know about Coleman is related to the last decade or so of his life . |
| 10 | This phenomenon is related to the last , but concerns not the translation of procedures from programs/software to machines/hardware , but rather the translation of procedures from one level of programming language to another . |
| 11 | now I 've got two little girls he said I hate to turn away knowing what he 'd done to the last little girl |
| 12 | He was , for instance , punctilious about paying his models the agreed amount and would work out the precise sum owed to the last quarter of an hour . |
| 13 | A depth-first traversal goes from a node to one of the nodes directly connected to it and then immediately continues by visiting a node that is connected to the last visited node ( see Figure 12 ) . |
| 14 | And when they joined their ship , they had been plundered to the last farthing , most probably in debt and diseased in mind and body . |
| 15 | STEPHEN HENDRY last night advanced to the last eight of the Humo European Open in Antwerp with a narrow 5-4 victory over Dennis Taylor . |
| 16 | ‘ We were singing There was a Princess Long Ago and had just got to the last verse , ‘ Now everybody 's happy now ’ , when the headmistress came in and said the King had died . |
| 17 | Like all good Home Guarders a great deal of effort was made to arrive at the Five Bells , our unofficial H.Q. which was then being run by Mrs Friar , her husband Bill being away on service with the Navy , and a common joke of the day was " If the Jerries landed the Five Bells would be defended to the last half pint " . |
| 18 | Nigel Lawson 's tax cuts will , it seems , be defended to the last ( though the International Monetary Fund is reportedly applying pressure in that regard ) and the search is on for cutbacks in the social side of public spending . |
| 19 | Compared to the last major overhaul three years ago , there was almost a 90 per cent drop in ethylene dichloride discharge and around 80 per cent in vinyl chloride . |
| 20 | Yeah , I attended , I used to run an A T C squad , well I used to run the two different ones in London , and A T C squadrons , and I must say I 've been invited to the last two open nights . |
| 21 | His swift rise to international acclaim was nevertheless tragically cut short when at only 42 he died of a heart attack just when ‘ poised to take his place alongside Barere , Friedman and Horowitz as the natural successors to Hofmann , Rachmaninov , Rosenthal , Godowsky and Lhevinne , all of whom had contributed to the last golden age of pianism ’ as Bryan Crimp , the dedicated compiler of this anthology of Levitzki 's total surviving electrical recordings for HMV , puts it in the accompany booklet . |
| 22 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 23 | Adjuvant bile acid therapy was administered to the last 56 patients who underwent successful percutaneous cholecystolithotomies . |
| 24 | The English had not taken any important part in this ; voyages from Bristol at the end of the fifteenth century had reached a few points in North America and had opened up cod fisheries off Newfoundland , and in the 1550s London merchants had used the northern searoutes to start trading with Russia , but most of the nation 's energies overseas in the first half of the sixteenth century had been devoted to the last and least rewarding of the attempts to conquer France . |
| 25 | I then resolution two which is continuing the process that we were introduced to the last Synod and the previous Synod consideration of the endless discussion document on Christian initiation . |
| 26 | A precise date is given to the last recorded act of cannibalism : 1821 , the year when ‘ we ’ founded Basutoland . |
| 27 | What was in the bottle that he had thus publicly drained to the last drop ? |
| 28 | The hon. Gentleman referred to the last time it occurred . |
| 29 | In her own house ( a villa furnished to the last square inch ) Mme Fournier changed into a punctilious , even formal hostess . |
| 30 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |