Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were reports that Iraq had received another Russian system , the SS-21 , though specialist circles are uncertain about this and arrival was not independently confirmed — perhaps the confusion arose from the last digits of the SS-12 having been inverted . |
| 2 | The practice arose in the last decades of the nineteenth century within the ruling class . |
| 3 | This tragedy occurred in the last Grand Prix race on the old circuit and was won by James Hunt in a McLaren . |
| 4 | The Bush broadside came on the last day of the Republicans ' convention in Houston , Texas . |
| 5 | The car wallowed around the last bend in the descent and cruised across in front of the school gates leaving two trails of dust behind . |
| 6 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 7 | Some of the fans remember it , their memory jogged by the 3p programme which the club reproduced for the last round against Bromsgrove . |
| 8 | the sun rose on the last of Alamein . |
| 9 | A WOMAN whose unborn child died in the last days of her pregnancy is seeking compensation from South Tees Health Authority . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll see you in , ’ he said when the car 's engine died on a last throaty purr in the Hamiltons ' driveway . |
| 11 | But as one parent said at the last gathering : ‘ Why do we all have to be so matey ? ’ |
| 12 | He always escaped because the dream ended in the last frame . |
| 13 | As Haig-Thomas and I returned to camp , the summits of the Arussi mountains far in the distance glowed in the last of the setting sun . |
| 14 | However , some tail end enterprise came from the last batsman Chris Young ( 32 ) who ended top scorer . |
| 15 | She was supported by seven of the eight parties which had agreed to form a coalition Cabinet , although the Centre Alliance withdrew at the last minute . |
| 16 | The right hon. Gentleman forgets that manufacturing output fell under the last Labour Government and has risen under this Government . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman should remember that manufacturing output fell under the last Labour Government and that it is up under this Government . |
| 18 | But while the services sector is strengthening , factory output fell in the last three months . |
| 19 | ‘ Good boy , ’ the Italian said for the last time , thickly , breathless . |
| 20 | Such is the power of suggestion that that night as I neared the top of the staircase , my foot stumbled on the last step but one . |
| 21 | The carnage endured in the last 20 years or so has mainly arisen not from what we from the mainland have done and/or been alleged to do , but from the conflict brought about by ineradicable sectarian fears and ambitions . |
| 22 | All that is verging on the silly : as one who can remember Andy Pandy and the ravishing girl who read ‘ Picture Book ’ , the fact that daytime television arrived in the last six or seven years seems rather insignificant . |
| 23 | A miserably dull , windy and cold Saturday morning beckoned for the last of my Island days and Ewen very kindly had given up his spare time to run me around the Stornoway locality before dropping me off at the airport . |
| 24 | He is confident he will gain the 6pc swing needed to secure the seat and says a Labour victory will ‘ finish off ’ what his colleague started at the last election in 1987 . |
| 25 | There were even more empty seats as the game ticked into the last minute , which was 60 seconds of magic , madness and mayhem . |
| 26 | In a reverse image of Mr Major 's public appearances , as the Labour leader 's belief in victory grew in the last days , so his studied calm and restraint slipped away , and a fatal hint of the ‘ cocky Welsh boyo ’ marked his public performances . |
| 27 | The second part of the theistic pattern sketched in the last chapter which we need to put under the microscope is that which described God both as personal and as impersonal . |
| 28 | But her voice quivered on the last word as she remembered the cold , dispassionate violence of the man in the alehouse . |
| 29 | And his voice rose on the last two words . |
| 30 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |