Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody is claiming that the Brooklands offers the last word in performance , fuel economy , space efficiency , silence or ergonomic excellence . |
| 2 | The deal represents the last part of GrandMet 's £550m disposal of Express . |
| 3 | This key deletes the last character typed in . |
| 4 | If some uncertainty surrounds the last stage of the book 's genesis , we can at least say something about its author 's state of mind on the eve of publication . |
| 5 | If Edgar speaks the last words , they appear a sort of reproof to Albany while Edgar assumes authority over the hopes of the future . |
| 6 | Our 1910 sample did serve its apprenticeship in trade-union organization , and this episode provides the last chapter in the story . |
| 7 | Rebecca makes the last contribution . |
| 8 | Patrick says the last time he ran was in Gloucester was in driving wind and rain |
| 9 | One single-handed edged weapon — not a two-handed weapon or an axe — can be sharpened with this tool , and this act drains the last magic from it ( other weapons can be sharpened subsequently , but this will not enchant them ) . |
| 10 | When there 's a dispute between parents , a judge has the last say . |
| 11 | A finely planned programme , but the playing lacks the last ounce of distinction and the choice of piano is somewhat curious . |
| 12 | As a result , they feel themselves not only homeless but in a total existential crisis — ending up on the dossers circuit removes the last residues of respectability . |
| 13 | My story concerns the last England cricket tour of South Africa in 1964–65 , when during the first morning of the Durban Test the pitch was so utterly dead that Peter Pollock , at full pace , could hardly get the ball bail-high and England 's batsmen were obviously headed for a huge total . |
| 14 | Blaise Pascal has the last word : |
| 15 | He disputed Lenin 's contention that imperialism constitutes the last stage of capitalism , arguing that in Latin America it represented only the first stage . |
| 16 | Vic shakes the last drops from his penis , taking care not to sprinkle the shaggy pink nylon fitted carpet , and flushes the toilet . |
| 17 | It is fruitful to recognise the responsibility people have for their own lives , and the material circumstances in which those lives have been lived , in considering the resources with which a person enters the last stages of life . |
| 18 | There is never a moment when Dustin gets as worried as Gary Cooper in High Noon , although , like Cooper , he has to cope singlehandedly with a number of killers , and is only saved at the final moment when his wife blasts the last opponent with a shotgun . |
| 19 | What in heaven 's name does the last bit mean ? |
| 20 | Maureen Lipman has the last word ! |
| 21 | maureen lipman has the last word ! |
| 22 | maureen lipman has the last word ! |
| 23 | by no means has the last word been written on the quantum Hall effect . |
| 24 | ‘ Duke Godomar is head of the city council , and in theory has the last word when it comes to governing Talisker . |
| 25 | As my breath scratches the last scribbles , and I write |
| 26 | Eight-year-old Claudia hears the last sentence . |
| 27 | Paraphrasing Tacitus and Byron , the Visitors ' Centre has the last word on Bloody Cumberland : ‘ he created a desert and called it peace . ’ |
| 28 | For Gloucester , the Pilkington Cup offers the last chance of glory this season . |
| 29 | Here , for example , is how the American journalist I. F. Stone describes the last hours of his voyage to Haifa , aboard a Turkish refugee ship called the Akbel , a listing hulk carrying hundreds of concentration camp survivors on their journey to Palestine . |
| 30 | By the time the female lays the last egg of the season , her first chick will have already emerged and left . |