Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a solution to conflicting views about the Last Supper . |
| 2 | well you got paid for your contracts , they let your contracts through the last time |
| 3 | ‘ We had a very successful relationship and partnership on the field during the last tour of India eight years ago . ’ |
| 4 | If you wish to self-certify your earnings , you will have to supply accounts for the last year . |
| 5 | Arriving back at the cottage for the last time Ludens paused to look and listen . |
| 6 | I had no regrets as I slammed the door behind me and left the cottage for the last time . |
| 7 | Holyoak believes that the council has been bamboozled into adopting LET's monolithic scheme which has had outline planning permission for the last year . |
| 8 | AFTER 21 years service has covered his drawing board for the last time to take up the more leisurely pursuits of photography and walking in his retirement . |
| 9 | AFTER more than 31 years working for , electrical engineer has packed away his drawing board for the last time and started his retirement . |
| 10 | GRIST also seems to have worsened what has been an increasing difficulty in arts professional development programmes during the last decade . |
| 11 | We in Britain owe so much to our American allies , not only for their support during the last war , but also today . |
| 12 | Burco Ltd produces and sells two products : X and Y. During the last year 700 labour hours were worked and the operating results were as follows : |
| 13 | In each of the last four games there 's been speculation that Lou Macari was taking charge of Stoke for the last time . |
| 14 | That was where I got all the old aerosols for the last War , not to mention several important parts of the Wasp Factory , including the Face itself . |
| 15 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 16 | Wim Beeren , the Director of the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam who , in the face of deafening criticism , has always defended the restoration , admitted that Goldreyer did not bother to inform him in time about his plans for the last phase of the restoration in which the painted surface was to be treated . |
| 17 | It was followed , after the ammunition pouches of the defenders had been emptied , by total slaughter as the last line on the summit of an open hill was breached . |
| 18 | Companies are likely to continue to be laying off surplus staff well into the recovery , as was the case during the last recession in the early '80s . |
| 19 | It is possible that a ‘ fire storm ’ condition developed in the town , similar to that which occurred in several German cities during the last war , when saturation bombing raids started so many fires that the city became effectively one big fire , sucking into itself hurricane force winds to bring fresh oxygen to the heart of the inferno . |
| 20 | In practice , student occupancy for the last week of the Christmas and Easter terms averages 50 per cent , while that for the last two weeks of the summer term is 33 per cent . |
| 21 | Ten fighter jets from Upper Heyford have left the base for the last time , as the American operation there begins to wind down . |
| 22 | Therefore George prepared Lennie for heaven by describing their dream to Lennie for the last time . |
| 23 | The gasometer was rebuilt after being badly damaged by German bombs during the last war . |
| 24 | It was eight days almost to the minute since the undertaker had arrived at the house on stilts and rung the doorbell for the last time . |
| 25 | As you pass round the plant stem for the last time , turn the cord through between stem and stake and wrap the turns , pulling the cord tight to form a firm collar as shown in Figure 5 . |
| 26 | Years later when I saw John Sayers of West New Houses for the last time before he unfortunately died , I mentioned that I was planning to start riding my bike again , and he was most amused . |
| 27 | Gruinard Island is prominent off-shore : this was commandeered by the military authorities during the last war for experiments in chemical weapons , the ground being so contaminated that approaches to it were forbidden for forty years afterwards , the ban only recently being lifted . |
| 28 | People who had lived in old people 's homes were less likely than others who died to have gone into a hospital or hospice during the last year of their lives or to die in one . |
| 29 | Fetherstone was used as a POW camp during the last World War , and the ruins of the camp 's huts still litter parklands by the river . |
| 30 | The continued decline of international prices for the LDCs ' main export products during the last decade ; the danger of a fall in official development assistance and the consequences of the Gulf crisis , were listed as the main factors affecting growth in LDCs . |