Example sentences of "[verb] the last [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This work records the last photographic journey of his life : to Cyprus . |
| 2 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |
| 3 | To investigate the effect of withdrawals , we repeated t tests at the end of treatment using the last available assessment before withdrawal of treatment . |
| 4 | The succession to the Empire was soon re-established in the Habsburg line and the link with Hungary came again after the battle of Mohács in 1526 , when Ferdinand I of Austria succeeded the last Jagellonian King of Hungary and Bohemia , Ludovic , who was drowned while fleeing from the battlefield . |
| 5 | ‘ The vaunted land of the free became the last best hope of organised crime , and it has never recovered . |
| 6 | Doncaster , in 1927 , became the last new creation until further measures of reorganisation in some major urban areas began in the late 1950s . |
| 7 | And if , one day , the pick-up does catch on over here with the vigour of Ray-Ban shades , Zippo lighters and Levi jeans , it will make the last great fashion car , the Golf GTi , look about as silly as velvet loon pants . |
| 8 | A few miles outside Ulm in the little town of Rammingen I got the last available room in the Landgasthof Adler ( Eagle ) . |
| 9 | With Labour , like Lamont , pledged to abolish the Budget as such , we may just have heard the last Tory Budget of all . |
| 10 | Does anyone want the last hot chestnut ? ’ |
| 11 | They did n't hear Lachlan stop his father , as the old man returned after seeing the last visiting galley off the shore . |
| 12 | they 've won the last six home matches |
| 13 | Captain Ferzenaar 's observations on the state of Krakatoa in early August , even though made only from a boat keeping to the upwind side , are particularly useful because they provide the last reliable account of the situation before the culminating events which ensued fifteen days later . |
| 14 | Greece on May 21 extended full diplomatic recognition to Israel , becoming the last European Community member country to do so . |
| 15 | As so many times before , Vologsky carne to the end of the mental games he played with himself , dismissed the last hopeful excuse for his rejection and came face to face with the lonely bitterness of reality . |
| 16 | This theory also has the last unfortunate victim as a man called Coln , hence the name Colnbrook . |
| 17 | Blinking at her , Theda barely grasped the last little comment . |
| 18 | His chuckle was rich , and his eyes creased in amusement as he narrowed the last little gap between them . |
| 19 | While climbing the last little bit I could n't help thinking of all the mates who had been killed . |
| 20 | By contrast , anyone looking at the record of a computer attack would think it had been managed by a sadist wishing to extract the last possible drop of pain our of the victory . |
| 21 | Kalchu finished weaving the last whitish length of woollen cloth to make a jacket and put his loom away . |
| 22 | On single bed work , where a needle is tucking , it holds the last knitted stitch , plus collecting a loop of yarn every time , until these are all knitted off together when the needle is programmed next to knit . |
| 23 | policemen to guard the last Cuban mahogany trees |
| 24 | To-night , according to the rumours that were running round the streets of Pool , they would camp at Montgomery , and cover the last short stage to Parfois in the morning . |
| 25 | Many , of course , are too young to remember the last Labour Government . |
| 26 | He began to whistle , and taking his hands of the handlebars he negotiated the last half mile home without touching them again . |
| 27 | Nottingham Forest0 Manchester United1 MANCHESTER United filled the last remaining gap in the Old Trafford trophy cabinet , as far as domestic competitions are concerned , at Wembley yesterday by winning the League Cup for the first time . |
| 28 | Between 1210 and 1215 John of Wales made a new compilation out of Gilbert and Alan 's work ( which came , therefore , to be called the Compilatio Secunda , though in fact it followed the Compilatio Tertia ) and in 1216 came the last private collection of the reign , the Compilatio Quarta of John the Teuton . |
| 29 | Oh you 'd better do the last one Doctor |
| 30 | If England 's trip comes off it would follow 10 years after they played the last official Test against the Springboks at Johannesburg and would be the perfect dress-rehearsal if South Africa 's strong bid to stage the 1995 World Cup succeeds . |