Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining half-dozen or so clasped the last tattered shreds of the undergraduate life around them to keep out the cold winds of the world . |
| 2 | In parts of India , goats graze the cotton after harvest and so remove the last few infested bolls and stalks . |
| 3 | I avoided M.O.D saturday evening ( WHY have the cameras for our worst home result since about 1980 ? ? ? ? ) , and only caught the last 3 goals on the Sky roundup on sunday . |
| 4 | Bemoaning the corrupting influence of ‘ Americanisation ’ , and already reading the last rites over the decomposing virtues of English civility and order , Arnold 's influential Culture and Anarchy ( 1869 ) was regularly punctuated with fearful glimpses of ‘ a multitude of miserable , sunken , and ignorant human beings ’ in the city slums . |
| 5 | Captain Simcox shivered and rapidly swallowed the last of his drink . |
| 6 | Quite apart from its technical ingenuity , its wily thematic evolutions and transformations , I love its eccentricity : only Bernstein could have ‘ tuned in ’ to Plato 's timeless dinner party and still had the last laugh . |
| 7 | Roland lives long enough to see all his followers die , and also to see the last remnants of the Saracen army void the field in confused rout , and then he dies . |
| 8 | Jack stopped , listening again , and then ran the last few metres . |
| 9 | The men ushered their wives and girlfriends to safety and then trudged the last mile to the party . |
| 10 | He drove half-way home before the windscreen-wipers packed up and then trudged the last two miles , through blinding snow , with the child tucked into his overcoat , her cold face buried in his shoulder , her small , cold hands round his neck . |
| 11 | She 'd caught two buses across Johannesburg and then walked the last couple of miles to come and find me . ’ |
| 12 | It meant that they had almost to stand on the air , flapping furiously , and then drop the last few inches . |
| 13 | Folly turned her back and almost ran the last steps to the sanctuary of the waiting van . |
| 14 | But most of the rest of his career was as a travel photographer working for P & O and Union Castle , as well as the tourist boards for the Bahamas , Barbados and Jamaica , where he went every second winter to photograph personalities such as Joan Crawford or Richard Lester , and incidentally took the last photographs of Ian Fleming and Noel Coward . |
| 15 | The names of Eaux-Bonnes 's hotels still have the old pompous ring to them , the Hôtel d'Orient et d'Espagne , the Hôtel Richelieu , the Hôtel tea Princes ( the ‘ dearest ’ in a ‘ very wealthy little modern town ’ in Hilaire Belloc 's day , but up for sale and miserably vandalized the last time I saw it , in the mid-1980s ) , but their clients are not what they once were . |
| 16 | After the victory at the sea the triumph song , but hardly have the last notes escaped Israel 's lips than we come to the second story of complaint ( 15.22–7 ) . |
| 17 | In fact you might as well do the last one as well . |