Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] 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 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 3 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 10 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 11 | At the DOS prompt ( > ) pressing F3 will automatically bring up the last line you typed . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Open up the last bit of paper and all will be revealed . |
| 15 | Outside , the snow blotted out the last irregularities in the flowerbed , making it one with the lawn . |
| 16 | That 's the summary I handed out the last week , you would n't have got |
| 17 | The Egyptians , who conquered western Asia in the fifteenth century BC , hunted there , having recently wiped out the last elephants in their own lands . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Contestants who have finished relax with a drink or cheer on those struggling up the last stretch , some of them grasping frantically at disintegrating bales of straw . |
| 20 | Léonie swished her fork around her plate to gather up the last vestiges of sauce mornay . |
| 21 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 22 | ‘ And now , ’ he said , having mopped up the last crumb , ‘ now , what is it I can do for you ? |
| 23 | Wickham bounded up the last flight , shirt-sleeved , jacket in hand . |
| 24 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 25 | There 's a new batch in , about fifty , they say , to fill up the last posting . |
| 26 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
| 27 | " I 'd really like to mail a follow-up letter to all the people who sent bought more than £50 worth within 3 weeks of sending out the last brochure . " |
| 28 | She remembers the way the sun would sink down as the combine sliced out the last ranks of the wheat . |
| 29 | As the sun bakes out the last moisture from the mud , the mucus turns to parchment . |
| 30 | As Rabbi Glikstein read out the last rites at his levoyah , those words rang in my ears . |