Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , it was very nice except that Fred had a piece and left the last couple of slices in the tin on the side and the dog took a shine to it so it was in a tin and then in the dog . |
| 2 | Allen walked deftly along the rotten trunk and leapt the last eight feet to the further bank , making a scuffle in the mud where he landed . |
| 3 | It 's impossible to say which city Bashlachev belonged to because he was raised in the northern town of Cherepovets , studied at Sverdlovsk University and spent the last few years of his life wandering between Moscow , Leningrad and Siberia . |
| 4 | Nicholas Ridley retired from the house of commons at the last election after his outspoken remarks over Europe , he took a peerage and spent the last few months of his life in the House of Lords . |
| 5 | The ship rounded the point and started the last approach to Lisbon , going past the great Tower of Belem and the harbour where a hundred fishing boats made a forest of masts and spars . |
| 6 | Outside on the terrace , Karen and Eduardo drank wine and took the last of the day 's sun . |
| 7 | Julia looked up at the cloudless sky and felt the last of the day 's sun on her face . |
| 8 | I worked it out , from things Barbara Coleman told me , and I hitched a lift in a car going up the valley and walked the last mile or two . |
| 9 | Jed picked up his glass and swirled the last inch of beer around . |
| 10 | The Grimsby professional , however , responded to the challenge and took the last frame 100-17 . |
| 11 | Thomas began his senior international career against the same country in May last year and won the last of his nine caps against France in February . |
| 12 | The drunk lifted his bottle and shook the last few drops into his throat . |
| 13 | The Archdeacon realised he had been carried away , cleared his throat and gulped the last of the sherry . |
| 14 | We faced the barrel of a gun and chose the last thing we would do . |
| 15 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |