Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the last [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At half past four the morose office messenger would slink in with his brief case for the last of the week 's mail , ducking the cheerful insults the girls would fling at him . |
| 2 | WHEN you know your onions you can avoid the gap between the last of the main crop and the new harvest . |
| 3 | The overstretch of the regular army did not become a major political issue during the last of years of the Conservative Government ( then under Douglas Home , who succeeded Macmillan in October 1963 ) : it was a legacy left to Labour when they came to power in October 1964 . |
| 4 | Hill gradually moves up the grid … he 's second for the last of the starts but his engine is n't quite powerful enough and comes home in fourth spot … |
| 5 | ‘ No poem of mine was composed under circumstances more pleasant for me to remember than this , ’ Wordsworth wrote : Cottle 's home in Wine Street was probably the setting in which ‘ Tintern Abbey ’ reached written form , and almost at once it was chosen to take a place of honour as the last of the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 6 | I 'm not at all sure about the relevance of the last of these qualifications to the proceedings this evening but I am sure that all the other qualifications and all the rest of the experience conspire to make John Cruikshank an eminently suitable lecturer on our subject for tonight , which is ‘ Proust : Novelist and Explorer ’ . |
| 7 | The tunnelling phase of the Channel Tunnel linking England and France was completed on June 27 , 1991 , with the linking of the last of the three tunnels [ for linking of north-bound rail tunnel in May 1991 see p. 38209 ] . |
| 8 | It is a fine building , an example of fifteenth-century Gothic , with a good sculpted figure of Hercules as a child under the last on the right of the four arches . |
| 9 | A long , exposed ramp leads to a mossy ledge below the Crack For Thin Fingers , which we contemplated over lunch in the last of the morning 's sun . |
| 10 | He rode the lift to the seventh floor and walked the length of the deserted corridor to the last of the suites of offices . |
| 11 | The view from the rocky summit of Shutlingsloe is certainly impressive , especially in the late evening as the last of the sun 's rays form a silver ribbon on the Merse , 35 miles away . |
| 12 | It was filled with sacks of corn and oats that mingled their scents with hay from the loft above and the lingering fragrance of the last of the stored apples . |
| 13 | Mr Lang was speaking after announcing the membership of the last of the 15 boards — the Yorkhill trust in Glasgow . |
| 14 | Lord Lane said : ‘ No mention is to be made of any of the facts upon which these three orders were founded until after the conclusion of the last of the three trials involved , whenever that may be . ’ |
| 15 | If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines : |
| 16 | ‘ The tenant here died after the date of the order for recovery of possession against him but before the expiration of the last of a series of extensions which had been made by way of postponement of the date on which the order was to be complied with . |
| 17 | What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest , an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens , dragons and pirates , cannibals and headhunters , mystics and magicians . |
| 18 | So while the Apostate 's squaring the circle with the last of Gittel 's breed , I turn my attention to the nearest branch of the familial tree of old Shmuel ben Issachar . |
| 19 | With Allen 's help she bathed it with wine from the last of the Friar 's bottles and then made a pad of cooling leaves and re-bandaged it . |
| 20 | She watched the swallows that had begun to fly over the hill in the last of the light ; they skimmed close , almost round her feet . |
| 21 | On 16 April , the day of the vigil , I put on my smart suit for the last of the interviews and went into work to look through the papers . |
| 22 | I shake my head and trawl my spoon through the last of my soup . |
| 23 | And , with a little nod , he followed one of the paramedics out to join the co-pilot in the last of the ambulances . |
| 24 | Alexander 's resolution led on the one hand to the arrest of liberally orientated nobles in Tver " and on the other to the last of his propaganda campaigns in the countryside . |
| 25 | Reza Shah was an ex-Cossack officer who in 1925 seized the throne from the last of the preceding Qajar dynasty . |
| 26 | Belgian resistance in the last of the untaken forts continued until 15 August . |
| 27 | He laughed and kissed her again , and somehow it was another hour before the last of the doughnuts and her third cup of tea were consumed and he decreed that the colour had returned to her cheeks and they could leave . |
| 28 | Even the goalkeeper , Peter Schmeichel , came right upfield for the last of Manchester 's 14 corners . |
| 29 | Most of the furniture was familiar to him from boyhood visits to his grandparents , inherited by his aunt as the last of her generation . |
| 30 | There was a ragged pause , not a movement as the last of her underwear floated over the side of the bed . |