Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The conditions were difficult for everyone and we took a good decision to wait until the last half-hour before doing our 12 laps . |
| 2 | General Council 's action in support of the miners and wool textile workers signaled a turn in the tide , the beginning of a definite stand against the policy of wage reductions which economic conditions have enabled the employers to impose in the last four and a half years . |
| 3 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 4 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
| 5 | She had a horse to ride in the last . |
| 6 | Discussion revealed that women 's interests lay very much with lambing , first aid , dairy husbandry and financial management although quite a few were doubtful about their capacity to cope with the last of these subjects . |
| 7 | Colonel Bumford took his opportunity to win on the last throw . |
| 8 | I have reservations about Perlman and Mehta 's treatment of the Glazunov , though , which seems neither as richly romantic as Oscar Shumsky 's on Chandos , nor as glittering as Anne-Sophie Mutter 's on Erato : the other two versions to appear in the last year . |
| 9 | Robyn let out a deep breath as she strolled up the dusty track , forcing her inflamed body to relax in the last vestiges of evening sun . |
| 10 | For example , McCullough cites the failure of Sibelius to compose for the last 20 years of his life as in part due to his discomfort at the rise of a genre of music with which he felt no affinity . |
| 11 | Defenders Andy Hill and Ian Brightwell then ran from the back to score in the last 16 minutes . |
| 12 | Many a godly Jew must have felt what a wonderful thing it would be if Moses ' longing could be fulfilled , ‘ Would that all the Lord 's people were prophets , that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them ’ ( Num. 11:29 ) : and that is just what the prophets were led by God to foretell for the last days . |
| 13 | Oxford 's Mark Carlsson was the first casualty crashing out of heat eleven … then it was Troy Butler 's turn to tumble in the last race … |
| 14 | The meal was hardly over when Mr Heath flew to Sunningdale by helicopter to preside over the last stage of the conference on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | His earlier much-fabled ‘ ruthless determination ’ and fanatical single-mindedness were now becoming to be regarded as a major liability , and the command to the 6th Army to fight to the last man was seen as its fateful demonstration . |
| 16 | That morning Sara had been up with the dawn to walk for the last time in the castle grounds to say goodbye to her doves , her servants , her horses and her hounds , the last of which seemed to sense what was happening and started howling as soon as she had departed . |
| 17 | In consequence , there was always a scramble to spend in the last half of the financial year when the danger of an underspend was becoming apparent . |
| 18 | They overpowered the Italian pair to win in the last few strokes |
| 19 | He 's the second top player to go in the last few weeks . |
| 20 | There is a great temptation to overfeed in the last month to ensure calf growth and nutrition . |
| 21 | ‘ If the author be a wealthy man ’ , said a reviewer in 1799 , ‘ he ought not to have suffered the poor peasant to part with the last of the flock ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Deltic Mania ’ is not too strong a label to attach to the last full year of the locomotive flagships of the East Coast main line . |