Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The score then goes on to the last musical number in Act 3 , ‘ A thousand thousand ways ’ , which is a song repeated by the chorus . |
| 2 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 3 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 4 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 5 | In 1928 the Medical Officer reported that maternity and child welfare had developed remarkably over the last two years . |
| 6 | This is the menu as recorded by the Colonel and solemnly consumed down to the last friandise : |
| 7 | The main forces that work against trade union interest , according to Beaumont , are the difficulties experienced by unions in using the favourable industrial relations procedures laid down by the last Labour Government ; moves in the public sector that have made trade union organization difficult , and , in the case of GCHO , unlawful ; and the Conservative Government 's continuing drive against the closed shop . |
| 8 | Glorious views open up across the Inner Sound to Skye and smaller islands ; road and railway jostle together on the last exciting mile to Kyle of Lochalsh . |
| 9 | They must be taught through benevolence and sympathy ; when the necessity arises shame may be used , but fear only in the last extremity , and then ‘ with such delicacy that if possible the habit may not gather strength by the use you are constrained to make of it ’ . |
| 10 | Not by someone else stepping in at the last moment . |
| 11 | Notice how the sunset and the greeting are welded together in the last stanzas and are transformed into the endless journey and ‘ human sweetness ’ of the last three lines . |
| 12 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 13 | Mum is singing along with the last hymn . |
| 14 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 15 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 16 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 17 | ‘ Pat Nevin , our other scorer , has not been able to train properly for the last five weeks because of an ankle problem . ’ |
| 18 | What has been er what has been pleasing is that a n a number of the people who 've come in on the last two or three years or so er are younger people , people in their er late teens or twenties . |
| 19 | Then Beryl went on to outline a couple of job offers that had come in within the last few days . |
| 20 | Resettlement outside the region should be considered only in the last resort . |
| 21 | This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years . |
| 22 | Again , this is a complex notion in itself , so it is hardly surprising that some respondents found it difficult to reply to the questions : Has the conceptual map of your subject changed much in the last decade ? |
| 23 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 24 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 25 | The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war . |
| 26 | It was an old concrete pillbox built just before the last war to house a gun covering the firth , and it stuck in the sand like a big grey tooth . |
| 27 | This probably explains why menarche the age of which er menstruation begins menarche er why the age of menarche has dropped progressively in the last century from about fifteen and a half to about twelve and a half er today . |
| 28 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |
| 29 | Their numbers have dropped noticeably in the last five years and very dramatically since the 1880s , when 70 per cent of all cattle in the Netherlands were Groningens while Friesians represented only 18 per cent and were mainly restricted to Friesland and Drenthe . |
| 30 | Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack . |