Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coltart has spent the last year productively , though , playing on the Swedish Golf Tour . |
| 2 | The coalition has condemned the last minute scrapping of UP and has called for the cuts to be reversed for 1993–94 . |
| 3 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 4 | Barns were supposed to have hay in them — they did in the movies — where the hero could hide while the baddies , with a total disregard for blood poisoning or spread HIV , jabbed a pitchfork in and out like a demented barman trying to get the last maraschino out of the bottle . |
| 5 | What I have found using these criteria will be the subject of the next two chapters , of which the chick is the sole and proud subject , but the rest of this chapter will be concerned , not with my own experiments , but those of the other hunters for god 's organism whose work has dominated the last decade . |
| 6 | When we walk back to his flat , the sun has melted the last greyness from the sky . |
| 7 | John Hall has spent the last year receiving chemotherapy and blood transfusions in order to stay alive . |
| 8 | Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round . |
| 9 | We talked of Partition and the how the old princess had thrown the last family heirlooms — a series of beautiful inlaid jade daggers down the haveli well , in case the police arrested them for possessing offensive weapons . |
| 10 | Do n't you remember the canteen lady leaving to get the last tram ? ’ |
| 11 | This switch in the attitudes of the medical establishment has removed the last justification ( if there ever was one ) for cruel factory farming practices . |
| 12 | If the hon. Gentleman had listened the last time we had Home Office questions he would know perfectly well that the standard spending assessment has been set in West Yorkshire to enable it to employ police officers up to the full establishment . |
| 13 | ‘ The manager has watched the last couple of games , which has gone in my favour with me doing well . |
| 14 | ‘ The manager has watched the last couple of games , which has gone in my favour with me doing well . |
| 15 | Pedro de Castro Van Dúnem " Loy " ( who had earlier met Shevardnadze ) , when Baker reportedly said that Angola 's moves towards multiparty democracy had removed the last obstacle to US endorsement of a peace settlement . |
| 16 | The man next door has spent the last year making a kennel for his dog . |
| 17 | Stirring it around herself , she looked down at her long body , noticing how her illness had removed the last spare flesh . |
| 18 | By contrast , anyone looking at the record of a computer attack would think it had been managed by a sadist wishing to extract the last possible drop of pain our of the victory . |
| 19 | After about ten minutes — several riderless horses had skipped over the line by now , and another contender had cleared the last jump , and was gaining — Bumboy was finally scourged out of a series of circles and flopped over the line , home by half a length . |
| 20 | Vice president of development , Saiid Zarrabian , admits the company has spent the last three years ‘ in perpetual transition , desperately trying to find out what it is good at … in doing this the company has lost time and money trying to make good the things it started . ’ |
| 21 | The Gloucestershire company has spent the last five years building up an export market in America with department stores now taking their products . |
| 22 | It was widely believed that there were no human fossils , so the recent appearance of humankind seemed to represent the last step in the ascent of life . |
| 23 | The company had insisted the last 88 job cuts in a 2,200 redundancy programme had to be found before yesterday 's deadline . |
| 24 | A light rain shower had hurried the last of the rubber-neck tourists off the streets and the restaurants and sex shows ( mostly on video these days ) were switching off their come-hither lights . |
| 25 | But there was no room there and the 22-year-old had spent the last six days in Middlesbrough police station . |
| 26 | There is a clear trend for films to become increasingly violent and sadistic , with each new film trying to outdo the last in savagery . |
| 27 | Paid holidays , more affluence and cheaper travel have turned the last few decades into an era of travel . |