Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 2 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 3 | ‘ I just now want to win the last two races in Japan and Australia and then it 's a new career for me . ’ |
| 4 | Auto-repeat recalls the last programme used . |
| 5 | But here the Common Law Courts manage to get the last word ; for they acquired the power , in the fifteenth century , to decide whether the writ is good or not , and if not , the fact that the plaintiff has got the writ will not help him . |
| 6 | The small , frightened freedoms that we enjoy are underpinned by a global system that requires that they be paid for by rigorous and intensifying dispossession of the poor of the earth , the destruction of the resource-base , the ousting of indigenous peoples who happen to occupy the last remaining deposits of ‘ raw materials ’ to which the global market now stakes its superior claim . |
| 7 | ‘ I remember watching the last one from my house . |
| 8 | I remember watching the last episode on your predecessor ATV when it was repeated in 1976 and the announcer talked of people calling in with various theories about what it was all supposed to mean . |
| 9 | So try knitting the last row from the opposite side to your normal way and have another try . |
| 10 | Politicians , however , were quite capable of making any assistance look somewhat larger than life and thus attempt to reap the last ounce of voter gratitude for their services . |
| 11 | WATERLOO are hoping that Mike Hayton will provide just the right treatment when they bid to reach the last 32 of the Pilkington Cup by winning at Lichfield tomorrow . |
| 12 | I keep remembering the last night we were here — same hotel and all — and how Matt and I went out and got stinko-paralytico together and ended up doing the Zorba dance and got thrown out and Matt pointing at me and saying to the waiters Hey do n't you recognize Mista Rick from Parkway Peninsula and they did n't and made us pay for the plates . |
| 13 | Conference organisers may well be cutting their own throats in the long run if they try to wring the last penny ( or cent ) out of the latest bandwagons . |
| 14 | one because I 've buggered the last one up . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't think you 've heard the last of this matter , ’ he said through his teeth , ‘ you wo n't get away with it , taking from me my home and my birthright , I should have been the eldest son , I am more worthy of the position . |
| 16 | The police do n't think we 've heard the last of the attackers who seem prepared to endanger many lives in an attempt to reach their targets . |
| 17 | they 've won the last six home matches |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 've forgotten the last time we really enjoyed ourselves together and sat down to a meal uninterrupted by telephone calls . ’ |
| 20 | But we 've noticed the last few times it 's all Jacqueline now . |
| 21 | I 've missed the last post have n't I ? |
| 22 | You 've seen the last of him . ’ |
| 23 | We 've seen the last of him . ’ |
| 24 | As his wife Susan says : ‘ I do n't think we 've seen the last of him . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm sad to say it but I think we 've seen the last of him , Bless him ! |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And I do n't think we 've seen the last from Pisa at two one . |
| 28 | By the time you 've said the last blessing your food is digested . ’ |
| 29 | Sorry , you 've got the last |
| 30 | Oh , he said carefully , " I think I 've got the last of this breed . |