Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hun Sen initially refused to attend unless Sihanouk did , and only relented at the last moment . |
| 2 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 3 | It only improved in the last years of the nineteenth century with the company 's realization of a profitable traffic in middle-class commuters living at the seaside while working in Manchester and Liverpool . |
| 4 | Tess generously tried for the last time to interest Angel in the other dairymaids . |
| 5 | It was stupid — but it just seemed like the last straw , Tom , and what can be done ? |
| 6 | There were two more changes before she finally boarded for the last leg . |
| 7 | A HOME OFFICE minister yesterday intervened at the last minute to delay a Kurdish refugee being flown back to Turkey . |
| 8 | As he later explained , he deliberately dallied over the last few runs in order to let his partner , Peach , reach his double-century . |
| 9 | Men like that always insisted on the last word . |
| 10 | She also cared in the last years of her career . |
| 11 | Clive and Rose Greenacre , also described in the last chapter , continued to live out their shared problem of fearing abandonment . |
| 12 | The debate started from agreement about the outcome to be explained — the kinds of data given in the previous section — and about the broad changes , also described in the last section , which had been involved . |
| 13 | Yet a good deal of this diversification probably happened in the last 70 million years , during the Tertiary . |
| 14 | Indeed , as we also saw in the last chapter , one recent writer ( Jenkins , 1984 ) portrays Beccaria 's postponement of the positivist revolution as being anti-radical and supportive of existing authoritarian rulers . |
| 15 | She performed with fellow West Londoners the Mighty Ethnicz on the recent Ice T tour and also appeared on the last Mantronix video . |
| 16 | After re-packing her case , she fervently hoped for the last time , she had a wash , and because it looked sunny and warm outside dressed in a skimpy vest with a blouse over the top , and a rather strange Fifties-style skirt covered in poppies . |
| 17 | A flight of cormorant went past the tip of the headland , low to the water but sharply silhouetted in the last , lucid moment before true dusk . |
| 18 | Penguins at Birdland are used to being the centre of attraction , some even starred in the last Batman movie . |
| 19 | She ran along the side of the house , round the back of a stone-stilted granary and down behind the dovecot , and then darted across the last few yards to the wall . |
| 20 | Culley went straight for Elliott , then sidestepped at the last minute , almost a leap backwards . |
| 21 | THE SO-CALLED disease-of-the-month club is currently mustering legislative support for an objective that it almost reached in the last session of congress : creation of a separate headquarters for arthritis research at the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) . |
| 22 | McAllister , ’ and she almost tripped over the last bit , but hoped he had not noticed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | These are usually concealed and then flashed at the last moment , giving the prospective predator the impression that it is approaching a much larger animal and one that is staring straight at it in a defiant manner . |
| 25 | Thinking it was probably one of the maids , she hastily did up the last button and went to open it . |
| 26 | The Holy Roman Empire , of Charlemagne , of the Ottonian emperors , through to the Hohenstaufens , was to be seen in all seriousness as the legitimate heir of ‘ the Augustan peace ’ : a dispensation which , though seldom or never actualized through the last five centuries , must be held in mind as the one and only imaginable harmonizing of Church and State , of religion and politics , at least throughout Europe . |
| 27 | The impressive energy with which France has been building and renovating museums as well as adding to their collections since 1981 — the year François Mitterrand became President and Jack Lang his Minister of Culture — actually began in the last years of the previous Centre Right administration . |
| 28 | The broad measure , M3 , grew by only 1% in the 12 months to December , and actually fell for the last three months of 1990 . |
| 29 | She half smiled in the last threads of gold that smouldered in the sky . |