Example sentences of "[pron] the last [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 To me the last part of the poem is the one that really contains the message of futility suggested by the title :
2 ( b ) Allocate the total cost of the payroll to the calendar month in which the last day of the time sheet falls .
3 To those who , like me , find it difficult to relate the education of the young child to a future market place and to the , as yet unknown , technological changes which the last decade of this century and the first decade of the next will bring , the debate is somewhat arid .
4 Who had seen enacted before him the last skirmish in the war which had now given him his own longed-for kingdom of Cyprus .
5 You 're always give him the last sweet to him !
6 Thus the fourth-seeded Soutter gained revenge over the player who denied her the last place in England 's world-title winning team this year , with a hint that her rehabilitation might now be complete .
7 In the same month , in what was for her the last term of her formal education , Alix became engaged to Sebastian Manning .
8 Was it the last act of a popular drama begun at Aranjuez and thwarted by Napoleon 's desertion of Ferdinand and protection of Godoy , a revolution of disappointed vengeance , a revolution directed against Godoy 's creatures in the provincial administrations who now followed the French ?
9 The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were .
10 Everyone was in a good mood because not only was it the last day of school today , but everybody had had one and a half days off school already .
11 We saw it the last time in action on the weekend of the French vote on Maastricht — harnessing all our resources to serve the viewer and listener in a way no-one else can .
12 But chapter 23 gives us the last piece of true storytelling in which Abraham is centre stage throughout .
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