Example sentences of "[verb] out the last [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ! |
2 | Outside , the snow blotted out the last irregularities in the flowerbed , making it one with the lawn . |
3 | That 's the summary I handed out the last week , you would n't have got |
4 | The Egyptians , who conquered western Asia in the fifteenth century BC , hunted there , having recently wiped out the last elephants in their own lands . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | " 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 . " |
7 | She remembers the way the sun would sink down as the combine sliced out the last ranks of the wheat . |
8 | As the sun bakes out the last moisture from the mud , the mucus turns to parchment . |
9 | As Rabbi Glikstein read out the last rites at his levoyah , those words rang in my ears . |
10 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
11 | The German sights in particular — torchlit orgies of Nazi triumph , Hitler ranting in Stuttgart , storm-troopers stamping out the last flickers of academic freedom in Freiburg — showed him what lay in store for Europe and are vividly recounted here . |
12 | Considering Renault 's pioneering work in turbocharging for both road and track , it comes as little surprise that the power delivery is so smooth and strong though even Renault engineers have been unable to iron out the last fraction of a second of lag between the throttle being floored and the turbo-pressure rising . |
13 | He took out the last reed — looked at it — was going to split it , but his horse reached back and snatched the reed from him . |
14 | While Joan Templeman was in Los Angeles with her husband , playing out the last days of her marriage , Richard Branson was in Jamaica , doing business . |
15 | By two o'clock , I had walked fifteen miles and was sitting on the wheelbarrow forking out the last sardine , when Mick and Paddy arrived . |
16 | Once , it had seemed that the candle of her life would burn only till Christmas , and that it was towards that single point that she was spinning out the last hours of her life . |
17 | That 's quite an advantage , you 'll be more than satisfied to discover , as you search out the last parking spot at the charity ball . |
18 | If you can get hold of a copy of the record , check out the last section of the song and see how the whole sequence is moved up a fourth , becoming A7 , D7 , G7 and C7 , into the fade of A7 and D7 . |
19 | To Nell , it looked as though she would never find out the last mystery of Titron . |