Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't hear Lachlan stop his father , as the old man returned after seeing the last visiting galley off the shore . |
| 2 | It will certainly be a dramatic change of scenery after spending the last few weeks in the reserves . ’ |
| 3 | After obliging the last autonomous ruler of the Ukrainian heartland to resign ( in 1764 ) and breaking up the Ukrainian Cossacks ( in 1775 ) , Catherine the Great had subjected Ukrainians to the poll tax and extended to their territory her reform of Russian provincial administration . |
| 4 | Teenage full back Phil Hardy looks almost certain to regain his left back spot after missing the last 11 games because of a foot operation , with utility man Wayne Phillips reverting to a more familiar midfield role . |
| 5 | But Michael Thomas could be back after missing the last two games with a twisted ankle . |
| 6 | Defender Kenny Goodrick could return to face his old club after missing the last three games because of injury , but striker Chris Pickford is doubtful . |
| 7 | I suggested that he might think of removing the last three syllables from his name , which he did by deed poll . |
| 8 | Holland 's Richard Krajicek lost his chance of reaching the last four when he slipped 6–4 , 6–3 to Ivanisevic . |
| 9 | Yet somehow , unaccountably , I find myself 16 behind needing the last three colours to even the match . |
| 10 | But for recording the last four EPs and the album , most of the guitar actually is this hired-in Gibson Les Paul Junior . |
| 11 | What we do know is that , particularly in the lower reaches of the rivers , they have suffered in the time that man has been around in Sussex , in say the last ten thousand years , very , very dramatic changes . |
| 12 | The Elves finally succeed in driving the last Dark Elves from northern Ulthuan and begin to sweep the northern seas clear of their ships . |
| 13 | When I was an apprentice there were two component plants in Europe , and now there are seventeen , and I 've had a hand in establishing the last twelve . |
| 14 | The combined Staines/Nine Elms team somehow managed to finish with a negative score , which earned them the title of ‘ most sporting team ’ , and saved head office teams from occupying the last two positions ! |
| 15 | At the end of the story significantly called Youth , a story in which Conrad calls on his own memory of the testing of ardent feelings in critical conditions in describing the last fatal , curtailed voyage of the old Judea , Marlow as narrator , sitting in comfortable middle age among men who , like him , had served an apprenticeship at sea , challenges them to deny that this was the best time of their lives : |
| 16 | In celebrating the last human symbol of the old empire , they were thinking with hope of their own future in a reasonably peaceful and prosperous new Mittleeuropa . |
| 17 | They 're hell belt in , hell-bent in removing the last statutory protection against the poverty pay for workers in the U K. They will make us the only country in Europe without some minimum standards . |
| 18 | Alas , defensive naiveties prevented the Vikings from reaching the last four . |
| 19 | This has become almost par for the course in English qualifying campaigns under Robson : they were breached only once in reaching the last European Championship finals . |
| 20 | As I said , he certainly has nt been alone in fading the last few games — and he does do the work to begin with , so maybe has more right to fade . |
| 21 | Rangers are already assured of a near half million pound pay-out from UEFA for reaching the last eight and , with around £200,000 at stake for each point earned from now on , a maximum of £2.4m is also up for grabs . |
| 22 | Zakks stylist , Sharon Rainey , set to work on eliminating the last frizzy remnants of Sarah 's grown out perm , using huge velcro rollers . |
| 23 | Some felt he owed his life to spending the last ten months of the war in Stalag Luft 3 at Sagan near Breslau . |
| 24 | For example , he 'll say something like , ‘ Well , I would n't wan na spend the last two minutes of my life listening to that lick ! ’ |
| 25 | Le Moignan , seeded three , drove and volleyed with crunching power to beat holder Lisa Opie , who , injured for most of the season , exceeded expectations by reaching the last four . |
| 26 | Newmarket challengers Alinova and Al Shaati can send punters away happy at Beverley by taking the last two races . |
| 27 | Newmarket challengers Moscow Sea and Al Shaati can send punters away happy at Beverley by taking the last two races . |
| 28 | Ridley , who saved Durham 's blushes by winning the last two holes to win his game and to tie the match against Cumbria last weekend , is on holiday in America where he has tickets to watch the U.S. Open . |