Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | One , two , three , four five six , seven , eight no one , two three , four there 's nine so we 'll probably have to take some stools in , but I wo n't take them in till the last minute . |
| 2 | Put them together at the last possible moment and cover with a damp tea towel until you serve them . |
| 3 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 4 | ‘ I want you to regard me not as the last Viceroy winding up the British Raj ’ , he told Nehru , ‘ but as the first to lead the way to the new India . ’ |
| 5 | Eggs so comma but all of them just before the last one . |
| 6 | Or walk out and let you down at the last minute . ’ |
| 7 | Disadvantages : She may not have had much experience looking after young children ; she may let you down at the last minute if something else crops up — like a boyfriend . |
| 8 | Wait until I let you through into the last cellar , and then I must take the keys back to the steward . |
| 9 | But I 've been watching you closely over the last few weeks , Aurora . |
| 10 | The design is produced by threading the weft strands through a number of the warp strands , rather than directly from edge to edge , and then looping them back around the last warp thread used . |
| 11 | But these fine ladies and their tea-drinkings , husband-huntings , etc. , etc. , etc. , will job me out of the last ten years , and I fear miss getting husbands too . |
| 12 | I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years ! |
| 13 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 14 | And he blames AC Scotland for the sabotaging of his plans to raise a second round of finance by stockbrokers in Europe who let him down at the last minute . |
| 15 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 17 | They manhandled her out of the vehicle and through the front doors , down the corridor and into the small , windowless and empty room that had become her home for the last nine hours . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |
| 19 | She rode him out over the last furlong and finished some six lengths behind Shine On . |
| 20 | This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways . |
| 21 | In 1979 he voted for Margaret Thatcher , backing her again at the last election after a switch to the SDP in 1983 . |
| 22 | I turned again to Ellen , pretty freckled Ellen with her high cheekbones and clever green eyes and flaming hair and mocking smile , and I suddenly wondered whether McIllvanney had spoken to her again in the last week . |
| 23 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 24 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 25 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 26 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 27 | I 've had to put it together over the last three days . |
| 28 | His followers at the Yorkshire track have raked it in over the last five years with a 1 level stake on all his mounts showing more than 45 to the good . |
| 29 | ‘ If you 'll wash the lettuce I 'll make my special dressing and we could pick some wild sorrel and chop it in at the last minute . ’ |
| 30 | The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over . |