Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attempt to include such a ban sank the last effort at constitutional reform , made by Congress in 1989 . |
| 2 | As the jeep turned the last curve at the foot of the slope the Brigadier braked and pointed . |
| 3 | As police from the West Mercia force watched the last hippies leave the Common , their Chief Constable was declaring the whole operation a success . |
| 4 | And the barely legible postmark removed the last shred of doubt about who had sent it . |
| 5 | But the old soldier had the last laugh . |
| 6 | Past him into the room sailed the last member of the Literary Lionisers ' committee . |
| 7 | But for other Keynesians , particularly in the United States , the Phillips curve furnished the last equation of the Keynesian model , supplanting once and for all that notorious intruder , the condition . |
| 8 | There is some reason to doubt that all the discrepancies can be eliminated by taking account of the short-term/long-term distinction : Lantz 's ( 1973 ) demonstration of superior latent inhibition with spaced trials came from a procedure in which the first conditioning trial followed the last trial of pre-exposure ; James ' ( 1971 ) demonstration of perfect retention used , in training , the interstimulus intervals typical of studies of short-term habituation . |
| 9 | We also hear , incidentally , that Dr Mowlam and Tory candidate Robert Goodwill shared the last waltz ( ‘ not quite cheek to cheek ’ says the gallant Goodwill ) at the Langbaurgh council 's chairman 's ball on Friday . |
| 10 | Everyone , myself included , held their breath as the ball swung the last couple of feet towards the cup and disappeared . |
| 11 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 12 | It took several minutes , and then suddenly another wave pulled the last line free , unwinding from her thigh , to relinquish its grip like some long thin tentacle . |
| 13 | There was no miracle , although across Western Europe Sunday morning saw the last throws of ‘ the diplomats and the last prayers of the people who believed . |
| 14 | In the sprint event , Sheffieldbased Carrigeen Chief is fancied , though Graham Calvert 's Lucky Streak won the last sprint open at Sunderland and competed recently in a top open at Bristol . |
| 15 | Melanie wrestled with self-pity and memory as she sat in the kitchen with her book while her aunt sewed the last seams of the Greek tunic . |
| 16 | Has the Secretary of State read the last sentence of the Cardiff Business school report , which states : " If as we are led to believe , Wales is drawing on a new era , nobody has informed Mountain Ash about it . " ? |
| 17 | Morton said quietly , watching as the tall man lowered the last crate into the hold . |
| 18 | And as a mark of their respect for their aviator comrade , a lone bugler played The Last Post and Reveille before an RAF Hercules flew over the graveside at Frankby Cemetery in a special salute to the man who had given the last six years of his life to his country . |
| 19 | Some were impatient of disarmament talks which never resulted in the abandoning of a single weapon ; some were appalled by Civil Defence pamphlets which advocated spending your last four minutes on earth whitewashing your windows and by planners who talked blithely in terms of ‘ megadeaths ’ ; some were convinced that Armageddon would be next week : the immensely influential film of On the Beach showed the last survivors , in Melbourne , waiting for death in 1963 . |
| 20 | Consequently , the last line of his life parroted the last line of his masterpiece : at his funeral a picket of soldiers turned up to fire a volley over the coffin , and thus bid the state 's traditional farewell to one of its most improbable and sardonic chevaliers . |
| 21 | As soon as the farmer took the last sheaf away the gleaners were free to enter . |
| 22 | Secondly , the tour represented the last chance for some Wallaby players to ever tour South Africa ’ , said French . |
| 23 | The steep track down to the gate gave the last trolley and Bill a stylish tango across the floor of the van . |
| 24 | The quiet north-country voice spoke the last words the criminal was ever to hear . |
| 25 | His husky moan of arousal as she placed her hands on his warm chest shattered the last remnants of any uncertainty she might have felt , and her arms closed about him as she revelled in the hard pressure of Ross 's body , the slight roughness of his masculine jaw as her silk gown was torn away and he pressed his burning lips to the soft , fragrant valley between her full breasts . |
| 26 | Pool had the last laugh in the FA Cup a few weeks later . |
| 27 | On 9 April , this neglected reality had the last laugh . |
| 28 | A DETECTIVE spent the last moments of his life watching the Grand National in a pub with friends . |
| 29 | One building society chief said the last time interest rates were at this level , Virginia Wade won at Wimbledon and Jim Callaghan was the Labour Prime Minister . |
| 30 | The batsman drove the last ball of the over for four , and the bowler kicked the ground in exasperation . |