Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] last [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He personally led the last expedition to the Blighted Isle and reclaimed it from the Dark Elves .
2 To sort of make out s make sure you 've got this and that so you 're ready for the confinement and er But they only came the last minute when when they were the ma mams were expecting their babies .
3 When asked to describe auditory sensations , McKellar 's subjects frequently reported hearing snatches of music which could be recurrent … as is illustrated by a subject who recurrently imaged the last movement of Rachmaninov 's Second Piano Concerto .
4 So did the last sentiment , however blandly it was presented .
5 ‘ Well , I wo n't cry over spilt milk , ’ Karen said as she finally recovered the last smithereen of dog .
6 And I turned over and I just caught the last bit there .
7 I I just caught the last frame .
8 Thus began the last chapter of a case that had started as a simple bank robbery , then extended into one of murder and fraud , and drugs .
9 No sooner had the last votes been cast than the IRA — fellow republicans — added to those problems .
10 They just closed the last pub down there [ c. 1966 ] .
11 Mrs Over held a last letter from Elizabeth which arrived on Monday — the day police believe the murders occurred .
12 A SPECIAL task force yesterday unearthed the last £140,000 of the ransom money handed over after estate agent Stephanie Slater was kidnapped .
13 SEVERAL opposition councillors yesterday made a last ditch attempt to block the closure of eight council-run old people 's homes in County Durham .
14 by being the current user or the manager of the module ( the current user being the user who caused the module instance to enter the state ie. caused the last state transition )
15 It 's been a long , grey summer , but the clubbing community still celebrated the last Bank Holiday weekend of the season in style .
16 The transport union TGWU yesterday claimed the last hope of reviving the Manchester docks had been jeopardised by the Manchester Ship Canal company 's indifference to obtaining a new shipping service which union officials valued at £1.5million annually .
17 Her fond tone belied her words — but , in any case , Folly hardly heard the last half of her mother 's speech .
18 Despite these I always took a last look at the course on the first day of the tournament .
19 Quite apart from its technical ingenuity , its wily thematic evolutions and transformations , I love its eccentricity : only Bernstein could have ‘ tuned in ’ to Plato 's timeless dinner party and still had the last laugh .
20 ROBIN Smith , Hampshire 's defiant middle-order maestro , yesterday had the last word in his summer-long bitter duel with Waqar Younis .
21 The Scouse always had the last word .
22 During the seven-year period 1642 to 1649 , parliament also designated the last Wednesday of each month as a solemn day of ‘ fasting and humiliation ’ , which was to be observed by abstinence from food and drink and attendance at a day-long round of religious exercises aimed at producing both personal and national reformation .
23 As the day of ‘ our final hour ’ approached our publicity releases continued to whip up public opinion , and I carefully planned the last programme for broadcast from 9pm on the last evening until the station 's license expired with the stroke of midnight .
24 Owned by Tom Clyne , who also won the last sprint on Saturday night with Clydal Chief , Pal had 2.1/2 lengths to spare from Stormhill Echo .
25 I now knew the last thing in the whole world I wanted was to go into the mountains again with FAKINTIL .
26 The trouble was , neither of us had been here before and Holyhead Mountain in the gathering gloom emphatically had the last laugh .
27 I then severed the last piece of shaft as close as I could to the head , and again found nothing untoward .
28 The men ushered their wives and girlfriends to safety and then trudged the last mile to the party .
29 She 'd caught two buses across Johannesburg and then walked the last couple of miles to come and find me . ’
30 More liberal constituencies in the party , some of them with close links to Hillary Rodham Clinton , the president 's wife , then spent the last half of 1992 making sure that their claims on the presidency were not forgotten .
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