Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She caught only the last few words : ‘ the sooner this dangerous person is apprehended the better ’ , and switched off in frustration . |
| 2 | A pyromaniac does n't throw away the last three matches . |
| 3 | Sickness rose , vying with the pain , as she found herself piecing together the last few hours of Mark 's life . |
| 4 | The Fibonacci series is produced by adding together the last two numbers in a sequence to get the next number — 1 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 8 , 13 , 21 , 34 and so on . |
| 5 | They 're now desperatly trying to piece together the last few hours of her life . |
| 6 | Above their heads the clock ticked away the last thirty minutes of the old year . |
| 7 | It was the final straw ; she could see he knew everything , everything , and that took away every last hidden ace she had ever hoped to possess . |
| 8 | If one took just the last three years , the annual average migration figure would be a little under three thousand three hundred . |
| 9 | It was n't easy , but I did manage to get practically the last two available tickets . |
| 10 | Ger Van Vliet , a Dutch botanist who heads the EC scientific working group on Cites , says wild orchids are easy to steal : ‘ I could walk into a forest in Sabah ( Borneo ) and take away the last remaining specimens of a rare species in one suitcase . ’ |
| 11 | Finally , scraping together the last microscopic filaments of my tattered pride to produce a quorum fit for emergency egoresuscitation if not actual wit , I managed : ‘ Gav , I 'm shocked . ’ |