Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found Helen in the last one of all , sitting on the floor with her head on her knees , crying as if she never intended to stop . |
| 2 | Slick catching aided the West Indies effort , Lara setting the pattern by swooping low to his left as the solitary slip to despatch Wessels off the last ball of the day 's third over , and their captain gone , the South Africans never appeared to have the conviction that they could achieve their moderate target . |
| 3 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |
| 4 | They returned in April , and in June visited Leeds for the last time . |
| 5 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 6 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 7 | Gaunt showed consistent loyalty to his father and , after 1377 , to his young nephew Richard II , but he lacked the charismatic authority of his father and eldest brother , and he was widely if unfairly blamed for the misfortunes that befell England in the last years of his father 's reign . |
| 8 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 9 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 10 | No one who contemplates the brutal war that has racked Croatia over the last few months can do so without a deep feeling of sorrow and shame : sorrow that such devastation and misery should disfigure our continent in 1991 , and shame that we have been unable to do anything to halt the carnage and destruction . |
| 11 | A few days later Keith Meerza sees Christopher for the last time . |
| 12 | ( William and Dorothy Wordsworth rented Racedown in the last years of the eighteenth century . ) |
| 13 | Second seed Amanda Grunfeld , from Manchester , joined Durie in the last 16 with a 6–1 , 6–4 victory over Banbury 's Claire Spencer , while Devon 's third-seeded Sara Gomer , runner-up for the past three years , crushed Fulham 's Claire Spencer 6–4 , 6–2 . |
| 14 | Donna joined Stoddards within the last two years . |
| 15 | Alcatel hijacked the contract by undercutting Westinghouse at the last minute . |
| 16 | The District Council has accommodated the highest proportion of Greater York growth of all the districts surrounding York over the last ten years , and therefore I think it likely that it would expected to accommodate the largest proportion of the fourteen hundred dwellings that would be accommodated in the new settlement , erm I do not think that any of the settlements or that there is sufficient land within the Southern Ryedale area to accommodate that level of development without adversely affecting character of the settlements , or compromising greenbelt objectives , as I mentioned this morning , and also I question whether or not erm whether th most of the settlements in the Southern Ryedale area have only a minimal s minimal service base anyway on which to tack any large housing growths , and I do n't necessarily foresee any subsequent rise in the service base of those settlements as a result of the housing being added on to them . |
| 17 | McCann joined Corsie in the last four yesterday when he edged out East Lothian 's Graham Robertson 7-6 , 7-6 , 1-7 , 4-7 , 7-6 . |
| 18 | Even though this was Jack 's own tournament , I decided to quit Jack after the last event of 1983 , the Chrysler Invitation , and start fresh with Greg next year . |
| 19 | The severe storms that have affected Britain in the last few years may be linked with sea-surface temperatures which have been fractionally higher than the long-term average . |
| 20 | As a long time drinker of real ale , who has only joined CAMRA in the last year , I found this belly-aching very annoying . |
| 21 | Peter Baker , John Daly and Sevvy Ballesteros are all out ; Pavin , Elkington and Frost joining Monty in the last eight . |
| 22 | DAY 42 and Michael and the team hit Istanbul on the last boat out of Odessa . |
| 23 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 24 | After a series of celebrations , it will leave Middlesbrough for the last time next Tuesday and head for Portsmouth to be de-commissioned . |
| 25 | For another , the ‘ war party ’ may already have taken over within the Vietminh : at least when Sainteny , attempting his last act of mediation , saw Ho for the last time before the war started , he complained about the moderate elements who had been eliminated from the government to the benefit of the notorious Francophobes ; and as the war was on the point of beginning , and as attacks on French soldiers and civilians had not ceased , nor had French retaliation , Sainteny 's exasperation was to be seen in his demand that culprits should be punished within 24 hours . |
| 26 | It is no green novice that top dressage rider Trish Gardiner is referring to , but Wily Imp , he class sixteen-year-old dark bay gelding who represented Britain in the last Olympics , and has every chance of doing so again in Barcelona . |
| 27 | I 've quartered Europe in the last few years . |
| 28 | Tottenham Hotspur who put Oxford United out of the F A Cup in the fourth round , found life difficult at Fratton Park where Portsmouth forgot their disappointing League form and led Spurs by a Chamberlain goal after forty one minutes , but Gascoigne who tormented Oxford in the last round , equalised for Spurs in the sixty second minutes , and seven minutes from time , that man Gascoigne popped up with a winner . |
| 29 | THE sickening events in Romania over the past few days now leave Albania as the last resort of old-style Stalinism . |
| 30 | Japanese attempts to change Japan in the last 150 years have been both imitative and derivative , but have been accompanied by conscious and unconscious retention of indigenous characteristics and the ‘ simulation ’ of traditional Japanese attributes , plus a fair measure of originality . |