Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as she closed her eyes a dark , austerely handsome face filled her mind , crowding out the last of her lingering fright , and when she eventually managed to get back to sleep it was to dream of Michele Lorenzo once more . |
| 2 | Work your way to the end of the plot — top spit into the bottom , bottom to the top — filling in the last trench with the barrowed soil . |
| 3 | ‘ M'm-h 'm , ’ I said , cleaning up the last of the stew . |
| 4 | That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard . |
| 5 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |
| 6 | Gathering up the last of the cuttings , she locked them in her briefcase , then looked round , too restless and on edge to relax . |
| 7 | Contestants who have finished relax with a drink or cheer on those struggling up the last stretch , some of them grasping frantically at disintegrating bales of straw . |
| 8 | ‘ Want a sweet ? ’ he said , holding out the last one in the packet . |
| 9 | " I 'd really like to mail a follow-up letter to all the people who sent bought more than £50 worth within 3 weeks of sending out the last brochure . " |
| 10 | It is hardly reasonable to expect the children to concentrate on sharing out the last of their emergency rations if the dinner ladies are putting out tables for lunch . |
| 11 | The German sights in particular — torchlit orgies of Nazi triumph , Hitler ranting in Stuttgart , storm-troopers stamping out the last flickers of academic freedom in Freiburg — showed him what lay in store for Europe and are vividly recounted here . |
| 12 | The crowd cheered us in of course , but it 's not the same as coming down the last as the winner for sure . |
| 13 | This caused me to run out of aft trim i.e. I could n't take my hands off — and she did n't feel quite so rock-like and stable coming down the last few hundred feet , but the resulting touchdown was smoother and shorter . |
| 14 | That was bad enough but Italian Constantino Rocca , who had been five shots behind the 39-year-old Scot coming up the last , sank a six feet putt for a birdie three to close the gap by two . |
| 15 | It also covers the whole book , whereas the Olivier film ended after Cathy 's death , cutting out the last third of the novel . |
| 16 | We have even seen lecturers complete their lectures and leave the room while the students have had to sit for another few minutes taking down the last load from the blackboard ! |
| 17 | Past Bracken Hill beyond Out Brough I looked down at Bainbridge snoozing in the sun before dropping down the last half-mile to the green and the Post Office for something to still the dust . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm tidying up the last ten years by releasing two compilation albums , ’ he says . |
| 19 | Slovenia in Milk Race CYCLING : Yugoslavia , who last competed in the Milk Race 30 years ago , will be represented by the breakaway state of Slovenia , which has joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in taking up the last places in a record field of 18 teams . |
| 20 | The marauders had simply backed the wagon into a relatively open grove , and tipped the stack of wood headlong , raking out the last slim cordwood and dragging the cart away from under them . |
| 21 | The rout of German self-opinion meant that while Britain , France , Holland and Belgium were busy shaking off the last vestiges of feudal restraint in order to industrialise , the Prussian reaction to defeat was to define their contribution to the world as Kultur — a commodity that was best seen as the absence of change . |
| 22 | ‘ That was absolutely delicious , ’ Polly had sighed , spooning up the last crumb , amazed that the extra pressure had not completely destroyed her appetite . |
| 23 | Next , a big metal plate presses the curd against one end of the vat , squeezing out the last of the remaining whey . |
| 24 | Batty said : ‘ It 's been murder sitting out the last eight games . |
| 25 | While Joan Templeman was in Los Angeles with her husband , playing out the last days of her marriage , Richard Branson was in Jamaica , doing business . |
| 26 | Throwing down the last of the whisky with a shudder , she switched off the bedside lamp and burrowed down beneath the covers , already aware that the alcohol was having an effect , sending tentacles of warmth through her veins . |
| 27 | By two o'clock , I had walked fifteen miles and was sitting on the wheelbarrow forking out the last sardine , when Mick and Paddy arrived . |
| 28 | Come on , come on , he thought , and pictured the three of them plummeting down the last thirty feet into the basement . |
| 29 | Once , it had seemed that the candle of her life would burn only till Christmas , and that it was towards that single point that she was spinning out the last hours of her life . |
| 30 | Rachel watched him and felt the dam burst , smashing back the last barriers to her soul , and flooding her with a rush of overwhelming emotion . |