Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 3 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 4 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |
| 5 | He tried to empty his mind of all thoughts , preparing for what only the most naive would fail to see as the last meeting of the Academy . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been trying to go for the last half-hour , ’ he whispered , ‘ but you wo n't let go of my neck ! ’ |
| 7 | IT IS revered as the last word in wonderful facts , loved by schoolchildren and eggheads alike . |
| 8 | Stepping off the last rung , she turned . |
| 9 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 10 | If I grumble about the last movement of the Tchaikovsky , I certainly would not complain about the delicacy of the pizzicato of the third movement . |
| 11 | Following a last salute to all old friends and listeners everywhere , we finished with that popular cowboy dirge , ‘ I 'm Headin' for the Last Round-Up ! ’ |
| 12 | Freud moved from Vienna in 1938 , when the Nazis took over , and lived for the last year of his life in London . |
| 13 | I think what I 'm trying to say is , in the minutes that we produced for the last meeting , it says that a copy of it will be available for the next meeting |
| 14 | Julie waited outside while Donna and Langton passed through the last door into the vault itself . |
| 15 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 16 | It had settled already on the mounds still lying heaped on the field , white as quicklime ; flesh not yet cold and consigned already to ashes ; bone , juice , and fibre still consuming its fuel , deflating from its last action ; sponging off the last image and led already to dust . |
| 17 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 18 | This may be regarded as the last fling of this relationship . |
| 19 | Nor can the stability argument be regarded as the last word , as we do not know whether general relativity itself will be valid right up to the space-time singularity . |
| 20 | Whether the bloom shape is the ultimate , only time will tell , for there have been other occasions in the development of the rose when a new type has been regarded as the last word . |
| 21 | You may be able to claim constructive dismissal even if the incident which directly leads to your departure is minor , if it can be regarded as the last straw . |
| 22 | Alexander ‘ Greek ’ Thomson has an international reputation for the buildings he designed during the last century . |
| 23 | Hunt for the last wolf in Norway |
| 24 | He turned an enquiring gaze upon her as she marched towards the house , but before following her he held out his hands to Millie as she went to jump off the last step , saying now in a low tone , ‘ It looks a good enough day ’ — he pointed to the back of the cart — ‘ what 's up ? ’ |
| 25 | Similarly bodies such as the Council for the Protection of Rural England , often depicted as the last refuge of ex-Etonian Guards officers and assorted upper-class cranks , was able to speak with a new confidence and a new authority , attract a new breed of membership and turn itself into a highly professional custodian of the English countryside . |
| 26 | Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults . |
| 27 | An able and strong-minded intendant could enjoy during the last decade of the ancien régime a remarkable degree of autonomy and independent initiative . |
| 28 | This caused a delay of nine minutes , but play was able to restart for the last couple of overs . |
| 29 | At the door , she stopped for the last time . |
| 30 | Only the top twenty-four scorers would qualify for the last round on Saturday . |