Example sentences of "[v-ing] the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To investigate the effect of withdrawals , we repeated t tests at the end of treatment using the last available assessment before withdrawal of treatment . |
| 2 | Like here , the leaves at Leighton would be turning a reddish-gold , there would be the faint smell of wood smoke , and Corbett wondered if his wife was also out in the fields enjoying the last lingering warm embrace of summer . |
| 3 | Robyn turned and looked away , reliving the last awful moments with Luke . |
| 4 | To them Baxendale resigned active management in 1847 , devoting the last twenty-five years of his life to his various property , investment , and charitable interests . |
| 5 | They did n't hear Lachlan stop his father , as the old man returned after seeing the last visiting galley off the shore . |
| 6 | Greece on May 21 extended full diplomatic recognition to Israel , becoming the last European Community member country to do so . |
| 7 | Zakks stylist , Sharon Rainey , set to work on eliminating the last frizzy remnants of Sarah 's grown out perm , using huge velcro rollers . |
| 8 | While climbing the last little bit I could n't help thinking of all the mates who had been killed . |
| 9 | The Elves finally succeed in driving the last Dark Elves from northern Ulthuan and begin to sweep the northern seas clear of their ships . |
| 10 | Kalchu finished weaving the last whitish length of woollen cloth to make a jacket and put his loom away . |
| 11 | What Summerchild is doing , now he has someone to do it for , is living the last dozen years of his life , which have gone by without his quite taking them in . |
| 12 | Practically sprinting the last few yards to the cottage , he pushed inside and dumped her belongings on the kitchen table before dashing out again and after the Land Rover as it groaned and grunted its way up the track to the colonel 's house , presumably driven by the garage mechanic . |
| 13 | When I was an apprentice there were two component plants in Europe , and now there are seventeen , and I 've had a hand in establishing the last twelve . |
| 14 | He moved slightly in the bed , and felt the warm , naked body beside him and smiled , remembering the last few hours . |
| 15 | This morning at breakfast we were smoking the last two . |
| 16 | Writing the last two terms of ( 19.14 ) as shows that the velocity fluctuations produce a stress on the mean flow . |
| 17 | A gush of tears took her by surprise , swamping the last few words . |
| 18 | The combined Staines/Nine Elms team somehow managed to finish with a negative score , which earned them the title of ‘ most sporting team ’ , and saved head office teams from occupying the last two positions ! |
| 19 | At the end of the story significantly called Youth , a story in which Conrad calls on his own memory of the testing of ardent feelings in critical conditions in describing the last fatal , curtailed voyage of the old Judea , Marlow as narrator , sitting in comfortable middle age among men who , like him , had served an apprenticeship at sea , challenges them to deny that this was the best time of their lives : |
| 20 | The plaster casts demonstrate this with unpleasant clarity ; in many of them the hands are still pressed to the mouth , preserving the last hopeless efforts to breathe . |
| 21 | Two rounds of trumps can be drawn with the Ace and King , and then 3 rounds of Spades played trumping the last losing Spade in dummy . |
| 22 | But when one track came dangerously close to being ‘ rompalong , knees-up , power-pop anthem ’ the band quickly sabotaged it by sticking ‘ a cheesy drum machine behind it and turning the last two minutes into a total sonic attack ’ — much to the tearful bewilderment of their paymasters , left-field Belgians Play It Again Sam . |
| 23 | In celebrating the last human symbol of the old empire , they were thinking with hope of their own future in a reasonably peaceful and prosperous new Mittleeuropa . |
| 24 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 25 | But Mick Quinn had the final say , scoring the last two goals to take his Coventry total to an astonishing eight goals in five games . |
| 26 | TEENAGERS facing the last two years of compulsory schooling will be able to study new ‘ short courses ’ as an alternative to full GCSE ones . |
| 27 | TEENAGERS facing the last two years of compulsory schooling will be able to study new ‘ short courses ’ as an alternative to full GCSE ones . |
| 28 | County and district councils have concurrent powers in respect of museums and art galleries , country parks , conservation areas , footpaths , recreational facilities , local parks , and open spaces , sharing the last four functions with parish , town and community councils . |
| 29 | St George and St Andrew face north , while St David and St Patrick , holding the last Irish snake , face south . |
| 30 | Section 222 of the TCGA 1992 , provides that gains accruing on the disposal of , or an interest in , a dwelling house which is or has been an individual 's only or main residence ( together with garden or grounds of up to half a hectare in extent or other extent appropriate for the reasonable enjoyment of the residence according to the size and character of the dwelling house ) throughout the period of ownership ( but disregarding the last 36 months of that period ( TCGA 1992 , s223 ) are exempt from capital gains tax . |