Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the last [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He holed a great putt on the last for a five and we both shot 71s because Nick hit a poor second shot on the last and he took a bogey five as well . |
| 2 | And this leads to the last and perhaps greatest check on popular sovereignty in the age of Pericles , namely Pericles himself . |
| 3 | So in the end he took to pointing at the last and most precious of " the possessions " … tiger-skins , bookcases full of elevating and instructional volumes , embroidered samplers , teasets of bone china , humidors and candlesticks , mounted elephants ' feet , and rowing-oars with names of college eights inscribed in gilt paint ; the ladies were instructed to improvise sandbags out of linen sheets and pillowslips and fine lace tablecloths . |
| 4 | She was just finishing with the last when there was a shout from Reception . |
| 5 | ‘ With this one there was very little injury and as well as that she was quite a big girl and it may very well be that at the end of the day we could say that she did n't resist to the last and if she did n't then of course it 's not rape it 's a different crime , indecent assault . ’ |
| 6 | The English had not taken any important part in this ; voyages from Bristol at the end of the fifteenth century had reached a few points in North America and had opened up cod fisheries off Newfoundland , and in the 1550s London merchants had used the northern searoutes to start trading with Russia , but most of the nation 's energies overseas in the first half of the sixteenth century had been devoted to the last and least rewarding of the attempts to conquer France . |
| 7 | He withdrew to his favourite castle at Chinon and there , on 6th July he died , having learned at the last that his favourite son John had joined the rebels against him . |