Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a tricky exercise , but easier if you keep your glove at arm level , shield the bird from the wind with your body , and do n't try to jump down the last foot or two , and so jar the bird . |
| 2 | A searing fire of elation bathed him suddenly , driving away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 3 | distinguish between the Tunguska terminal explosion and energy released by ablation and deceleration during atmospheric entry , with the explosion representing just the last 1% of the bolide 's energy . |
| 4 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 5 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 6 | Welcoming Lenin 's New Economic Policy , he expressed the hope that the development of Anglo-Soviet trade would persuade Russia to ‘ throw away the last shreds of Bolshevism and Communism by which it is at present fettered . ’ |
| 7 | A friend of both of them , who has watched this unhappy saga unfold over the last decade , now concedes : ‘ I am sorry for the tragedy of it all . |
| 8 | The emergence of such standards , and the ability to re-use programs written in conventional languages , should bring down the last barriers to wide acceptance of parallel computing . |
| 9 | Work your way to the end of the plot — top spit into the bottom , bottom to the top — filling in the last trench with the barrowed soil . |
| 10 | With the dress ordered , church and reception booked , invitations sent and wedding lists prepared probably the last thing on your mind is YOU ! |
| 11 | It was like when his Giro cheques from the unemployment people had n't turned up the last time he 'd been out of work ; it was all done to wear him down . |
| 12 | If they succeed , they will give up the last vestiges of the party state and refute the criticisms that they are only interested in the power and money accumulated by the Communists over the past 40 years , without accepting any blame for their actions . |
| 13 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 14 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 15 | At the DOS prompt ( > ) pressing F3 will automatically bring up the last line you typed . |
| 16 | Turned out the last time the staff had seen him he was a student here and he 'd made such an arsehole of himself they 'd sworn they 'd never let him back in ! |
| 17 | In a corner of the great library Arlott would gleefully construe his winners and losers , shed a tear as Leo Harrison or Barry Reed presented an ornamented mug as token of thanks , serve the unchanging banquet of watercress soup and venison , then watch with avuncular pride as the best arms in Hampshire cricket , Reed or Harrison , laid low the last coconuts of Alresford Fair , the midnight lights now glowing . |
| 18 | DETECTIVES are appealing for help in piecing together the last movements of a man found dead in a street yesterday morning . |
| 19 | The deletion detected by the 1,412-bp probe includes only the last exon of the P gene ( Fig. 3 a , and unpublished data ) . |
| 20 | The Government of Sri Lanka has shown itself to be increasingly sensitive to the outcry over its appalling human rights record over the last decade . |
| 21 | They were underlined by Labour 's Defence Review of 1974–5 which committed Britain 's ground forces solely to the defending of continental Europe , and stripped away the last fragments of the country 's global pretensions . |
| 22 | The English pundit , John Reason , hardly gives the impression that endearing himself to Scots is high among his priorities , but many surely enjoyed his observation that , by the time Dume had peeled away the last player obscuring his verdict , Turnbull must have felt he had been down there longer than Tutankhamen . |
| 23 | But remove them carefully with tissues , and use a non-alcoholic gentle freshener on cotton wool as a ‘ rinse ’ to wipe away the last traces . |
| 24 | Open up the last bit of paper and all will be revealed . |
| 25 | Outside , the snow blotted out the last irregularities in the flowerbed , making it one with the lawn . |
| 26 | That 's the summary I handed out the last week , you would n't have got |
| 27 | The Egyptians , who conquered western Asia in the fifteenth century BC , hunted there , having recently wiped out the last elephants in their own lands . |
| 28 | That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard . |
| 29 | Well I can remember then the last year when I was in the ninth year we did it in that half term , it was n't the first |
| 30 | A muddy cut through the jungle showed where the last car had passed around it . |