Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 2 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 3 | What I have found using these criteria will be the subject of the next two chapters , of which the chick is the sole and proud subject , but the rest of this chapter will be concerned , not with my own experiments , but those of the other hunters for god 's organism whose work has dominated the last decade . |
| 4 | ‘ The manager has watched the last couple of games , which has gone in my favour with me doing well . |
| 5 | ‘ The manager has watched the last couple of games , which has gone in my favour with me doing well . |
| 6 | Auto-repeat recalls the last programme used . |
| 7 | Now Vic has reached the last traffic lights before the system of tunnels and flyovers that will conduct him without further interruption through the centre of the city . |
| 8 | He has mislaid the last thread of that natty rig he had recently and is entirely back in cap , scarf and corduroy . |
| 9 | The coalition has condemned the last minute scrapping of UP and has called for the cuts to be reversed for 1993–94 . |
| 10 | ‘ Evil ’ has become the last refuge of the latter 's apologists and scoundrels , like the education minister , John Patten . |
| 11 | The man next door has spent the last year making a kennel for his dog . |
| 12 | Coltart has spent the last year productively , though , playing on the Swedish Golf Tour . |
| 13 | Sun Microsystems has spent the last year revamping its American resellers program and has de-authorised some 900 low value add locations for not making the kind of long-term commitment and investment it believes is necessary to a sound business model . |
| 14 | John Hall has spent the last year receiving chemotherapy and blood transfusions in order to stay alive . |
| 15 | She has spent the last year following her sailing pursuits but this year she gave priority to her GCSE exams and has done much less sailing . |
| 16 | Kemp has spent the last year in charge at Conference club Slough who have appointed former Millwall and Bradford City boss John Docherty in his place . |
| 17 | Both phrases have been much invoked in recent weeks as in : ‘ Mulroney has driven the Last Spike into our National Dream . ’ |
| 18 | When we walk back to his flat , the sun has melted the last greyness from the sky . |
| 19 | It will be the ninth occasion that Twickenham has represented the last hurdle in Scotland 's attempt to capture the Triple Crown and only once — Wilson Shaw 's match in 1938 — has the elusive prize been garnered . |
| 20 | ( If you tried to swap the last column of a table without doing so you would jumble up your text ) |
| 21 | Hospital doctors , for example , are still expected to have the last word about their patients ' discharge dates , or about their transfer to other institutions , or to decide whether they should be offered facilities such as regular readmission to relieve carers . |
| 22 | This switch in the attitudes of the medical establishment has removed the last justification ( if there ever was one ) for cruel factory farming practices . |
| 23 | And er , so she said she , she wants to take the last couple of days away |
| 24 | We thought we 'd had the last laugh when we got to the play-off finals against Charlton but he was an even bigger pain in the arse after that . |
| 25 | His most bitter disappointment came when the music entrepreneur Phil Spector pulled back from financing a screenplay Hopper had written called The Last Movie ( it was eventually produced in 1970 ) about Hollywood 's exploitation and destruction of South American Indians . |
| 26 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 27 | He 'd gone the last time , he reminded her , because of Lowell 's hands — well , partly . |
| 28 | It seemed to represent the last word as a model for other cities to follow . |
| 29 | It was widely believed that there were no human fossils , so the recent appearance of humankind seemed to represent the last step in the ascent of life . |
| 30 | There seemed no point , unless it was just a question of wanting to get the last word . |