Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Facing a financially bleak Christmas , he scrimped together every last penny to afford presents for the four boys . |
| 2 | A searing fire of elation bathed him suddenly , driving away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 3 | distinguish between the Tunguska terminal explosion and energy released by ablation and deceleration during atmospheric entry , with the explosion representing just the last 1% of the bolide 's energy . |
| 4 | Welcoming Lenin 's New Economic Policy , he expressed the hope that the development of Anglo-Soviet trade would persuade Russia to ‘ throw away the last shreds of Bolshevism and Communism by which it is at present fettered . ’ |
| 5 | With the dress ordered , church and reception booked , invitations sent and wedding lists prepared probably the last thing on your mind is YOU ! |
| 6 | In a corner of the great library Arlott would gleefully construe his winners and losers , shed a tear as Leo Harrison or Barry Reed presented an ornamented mug as token of thanks , serve the unchanging banquet of watercress soup and venison , then watch with avuncular pride as the best arms in Hampshire cricket , Reed or Harrison , laid low the last coconuts of Alresford Fair , the midnight lights now glowing . |
| 7 | DETECTIVES are appealing for help in piecing together the last movements of a man found dead in a street yesterday morning . |
| 8 | The deletion detected by the 1,412-bp probe includes only the last exon of the P gene ( Fig. 3 a , and unpublished data ) . |
| 9 | They were underlined by Labour 's Defence Review of 1974–5 which committed Britain 's ground forces solely to the defending of continental Europe , and stripped away the last fragments of the country 's global pretensions . |
| 10 | The English pundit , John Reason , hardly gives the impression that endearing himself to Scots is high among his priorities , but many surely enjoyed his observation that , by the time Dume had peeled away the last player obscuring his verdict , Turnbull must have felt he had been down there longer than Tutankhamen . |
| 11 | But remove them carefully with tissues , and use a non-alcoholic gentle freshener on cotton wool as a ‘ rinse ’ to wipe away the last traces . |
| 12 | Well I can remember then the last year when I was in the ninth year we did it in that half term , it was n't the first |
| 13 | Surprise fought for supremacy over sheer relief , the final result hardly strong enough to chase away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 14 | That 's because 90 's intensive agriculture and the developer 's bulldozer are rather effective at wiping away the last finger-prints of the all too impermanent way . |
| 15 | You know like the last time |
| 16 | ‘ I remember vividly the last concert in Pittsburg ( September 23 , 1980 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ We are trying to trace everyone who was at the party to try to piece together the last hours of his life . ’ |
| 18 | So the inquiry is by no means cut and dried and they 're now trying to piece together the last hours of the dead woman 's life . |
| 19 | Using what they had discovered from their visit to Bourbourg and official sources , Helen and Brian Attwell were able to piece together the last moments of Beaufort I L4508 . |
| 20 | He had erm what did he have there the last time ? |
| 21 | Your pension is calculated as a proportion of your final pay , which could mean literally the last year you work or for example ( and this is a requirement for controlling directors and those earning over £100,000 ) the average of three consecutive years during the last ten . |
| 22 | David and wife Catherine had scraped together every last penny to ensure their sons , Stuart , Richard , baby Thomas and Mark , ( from left in picture ) would have the happiest Christmas possible . |
| 23 | It has swept away the last remnants of the Stasi system , but in the process dirtied millions of Germans and the feelings their fellows have for them . |
| 24 | Do n't put yourself in a situation where the treasurer has to come back to the committee to argue over every last penny . |
| 25 | On the fourth day Jennifer put together every last farthing they possessed and went across to Fowey to visit the apothecary , returning with a malodorous syrup which her mother vomited up within seconds of swallowing . |
| 26 | The Conservative party has never been the party of law and order , and during this Parliament it has thrown away the last vestiges of any claim to such a title . |
| 27 | The Flow Country of Caithness and Sunderland and the Rhinns of Islay are likely to the first of 1,300 Scottish SSSIs to be reviewed under a last minute amendment to the Natural Heritage ( Scotland ) Bill . |
| 28 | It will only change when the psychology behind it has changed ; and this psychology is based on two die-hard principles which together constitute almost the last vestiges of his own Indian-ness . |
| 29 | He had enough the last time did he ? |
| 30 | You can extend this kind of exercise almost endlessly , but it is vitally important to use the form of the same complete up-to-time sentence for each exercise , leaving only the last bit that changes . |