Example sentences of "[verb] from the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He kicked over a candelabra , upset a tureen of soup , then leaped from the last table to land with a crash in Lord John 's path . |
| 32 | Missing from the last tournament are Scotland , because of a hectic domestic schedule , and Spain and the Soviet Bears , who both stand down automatically after a two-year run . |
| 33 | This month 's front-lines-of-natural-history dispatch comes from the last stop before the North Pole — Norway 's Svalbard island , where assistant producer Amanda Barrett and cameraman Owen Newman — having arrived to shoot a film about arctic foxes — found themselves alone in a cabin outpost many miles across sea , tundra and ice from the nearest point of civilisation . |
| 34 | — Comes from the last syllable of barracões the Portuguese word for buildings constructed for holding slaves before they were sold . |
| 35 | One of the things I did learn from the last tour was to rehearse enough material so that you do n't get fed up playing the same things over and over again . ’ |
| 36 | Conventionally , we would expect people to borrow up to the point where the utility gained from the last pound borrowed is just equal to the cost of borrowing it . |