Example sentences of "[adv] on the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish women 's teams have been held annually on the last weekend in February since before the war , but some five years ago the male members of the SBU council decided this was unfair and established the national men 's teams held in Perth on Sunday . |
| 2 | So it was all on the last set … in the last five matches between these two Lizzie Jelfs has won all five … |
| 3 | I would have to guess at the others because I did n't do erm sums on the other ones it was only on the last play but if it 's on the same sort of erm proportions , then I would say somewhere around thirty percent of the audience are concessions . |
| 4 | Only on the last part of his journey had he put his mind to questions of waxed cloth and canvas , cubic capacity and rates of exchange . |
| 5 | On the way back to Harwich , the newspapers did a marvellous job of keeping my mind off things , and it was only on the last leg of the journey that the butterflies started to flutter again . |
| 6 | Wooster , after all , in the inter-war Jeeves stories , was eternally trying to do the Right Thing and succeeding ( if at all ) only on the last page of the story . |
| 7 | Regional policy recommended closure only on the last criterion but there is a discrepancy between national ideology and local educational policy . |
| 8 | One of the all time greats of rock and roll is in the region tonight on the last date of a UK tour . |
| 9 | We finally gave up , agreeing that it was perhaps an old Dutch ritual performed always on the last night of a holiday . |
| 10 | Having to get up very early in the mornings he tended to be in bed by the time she arrived home on the last bus from Bath . |
| 11 | On may 3 it had caused sufficient problems to be pushed home on the last train of the day from Wroxham . |
| 12 | Let us begin by looking at the word ‘ around ’ , where the stress always falls clearly on the last syllable and the first syllable is weak . |
| 13 | This year Gary , of Enderby , Leicestershire , passed his law degree and is now on the last stage of training which will take him from factory to court . |
| 14 | ‘ But suppose , ’ his voice lingered sarcastically on the last word , ‘ I do n't want to be out of your life ? ’ |
| 15 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 16 | Er we only probably did it when ourselves we got venison beforehand on the last shooting and to keep . |
| 17 | This chapter will show the principal trends in population distribution since the inter-war period , focusing particularly on the last couple of decades . |
| 18 | His nerve stood the test , particularly on the last afternoon when the lead shrank to one stroke . |
| 19 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |
| 20 | Between 9.30 am and 11.00 am on the last trading day , the clearing house contacts a random sample of 16 banks from a list of designated banks offering three-month sterling time deposits . |
| 21 | All that remains to be settled is the effect of the movement in the cash index between 9.05 am and 11.20 am on the last trading day . |
| 22 | Then on the last night I made my big mistake , and hit that bad business I told you about . |
| 23 | They were all there on the last day , even down to the original.horse-drawn trams , rattling or gliding past in stately line-astern , a fleet from decades gone , past the Central Hotel and the ‘ Mal ’ , up Hope Street , and bidding farewell to Argyle Street under the gateway of the Hielan' Man 's Umbrella . |
| 24 | As the day of ‘ our final hour ’ approached our publicity releases continued to whip up public opinion , and I carefully planned the last programme for broadcast from 9pm on the last evening until the station 's license expired with the stroke of midnight . |
| 25 | The Tour has been won twice on the last stage . |
| 26 | If this was a late addition , one that went into the quarto at the last minute , the printer may have lost four lines of type in the process — or even cut them in order to be able to finish Act 3 tidily on the last page of a quarto sheet : the very next page , as it happens , which left scarcely any room for manoeuvre . |
| 27 | The last few days passed horrendously quickly — except for the bus ride down to Delhi at 3am on the last day of March . |