Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] the last [adj] " in BNC.

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31 Sigarup and Murti Lāl followed the last few through the gap , whistling long and low , a final command to stop and be still .
32 A. Taking the last three points together .
33 Akram bagged the last five wickets in nine balls to clinch a 110-run victory .
34 Clapp subsequently lost heavily to Suffolk 's Colin Gathercole in the afternoon , however , to leave Essex needing the last two matches to go the right way .
35 YOUNG riding sensation Adrian Maguire misses the last two days of Cheltenham 's Mackeson Gold Cup meeting after being handed a four-day whip ban by the Wincanton stewards yesterday .
36 IRISH champion Joe Swail reached the last eight of the Humo European Open in Antwerp yesterday , then expressed his amazement at being left out of the Benson and Hedges Irish Masters at Goffs next month .
37 they resumed this morning on 408 for 5 … the damage done although Gloucestershire took the last five wickets at a cost of just 113 runs …
38 Thomas Telford ran the last few yards to the pump site .
39 A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has allowed the Amsterdam-born Dr Stern to spend the last six years cataloguing the museum 's ancient glass collection .
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