Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] the last [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graf dropped the last four games of the second set after serving for the match at 5–3 , but then powered past fifth-seeded Sabatini 6–2 5–7 6–1 . |
| 2 | She returned to the brightly coloured pages of her magazine , leaving Frankie to eat the last remaining quarter of his jam sandwich in peace . |
| 3 | Jose Rivero birdied the last three holes to trim America 's lead to two shots and join Couples out in front in the individual race , won by Woosnam last year . |
| 4 | Aenarion walked the last few leagues over the haunted plains on foot . |
| 5 | Exactly thirty minutes later , Shannon packed the last two brushes into an already crammed hold-all and glanced quickly round the small room , checking for anything she might have missed first time round . |
| 6 | England won the last 28-9 at Ebbw Vale . |
| 7 | The mental hospital where my great-uncle Fred spent the last 30 years of his life was one of a chain built around the fringes of London in the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | Albert Einstein spent the last 50 years of his life unsuccessfully trying to unify the theories of electromagnetism and gravity . |
| 9 | Mushtaq took the last two wickets to finish England off for 255 , the 10 having fallen for 132 in 45 overs . |
| 10 | The Conwy pairing of Gary Macara and Roy Williams won the last two holes to level the match and then won at the 19th after Flint had put their tee shot out of bounds . |
| 11 | And so it proved , for the horse with no chance was not going to accommodate the pundits now : Foinavon jumped the last two and set off up the run-in still twenty lengths to the good . |
| 12 | The succession to the Empire was soon re-established in the Habsburg line and the link with Hungary came again after the battle of Mohács in 1526 , when Ferdinand I of Austria succeeded the last Jagellonian King of Hungary and Bohemia , Ludovic , who was drowned while fleeing from the battlefield . |
| 13 | Consistently , Owen rhymes the last two words in the fifth and seventh lines of each stanza , which is very effective . |
| 14 | Lloyd claimed the last half hour , but when he was out at 233 for 4 he indicated that as far as he was concerned that was that . |
| 15 | WORLD No 1 Dennis Priestley reached the last 64 of the British Open darts last night but former world champions Bob Anderson and Keith Deller both lost in the third round . |
| 16 | Geoffrey stressed the last two words . |
| 17 | Soon after midnight on 7 May the Viet Minh overran the last French positions held by the Foreign Legion and Algerian colonial infantry . |
| 18 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 19 | Terry , Steve Hallard and Richard Priestman reached the last 16 of the men 's team event by beating Germany 233-231 , Australia in the quarters by 240-236 , before falling to Spain 234-236 . |
| 20 | Gray , recently signed by Sunderland in an £850,000 deal from Luton missed the last two internationals — against Lithuania and Latvia away — because of injury . |
| 21 | The last time Bangor reached the last four was in 1968 when they lost to Crusaders . |
| 22 | AI urges King Jigme to release the last remaining known prisoner of conscience , Tek Nath Rizal , who is starting a third year in detention without trial at Wangdi Phodrang Prison . |
| 23 | They led by 14 points at the break only to dry up three minutes from time when they were 58–42 ahead leaving Paul Carr to hit the last ten points of the game and be top scorer on 28 points . |
| 24 | Victorine measured the last two rows of unpicked tomatoes with her sharp blue eyes . |
| 25 | The Society 's first winner of the new season was the irrepressible Robbie Kennelly ( 9 ) , he played the front nine in a modest 16pts after a blank at the ninth despite another blank at the tenth Robbie covered the last eight holes in a blistering 22pts with birdies at 11 and 7 for a grand total of 38pts . |
| 26 | Victory arrived in a flourish when Richard Hignett deposited the last four balls of the 42nd over from Furse for 6 , 2 , 4 and 6 . |
| 27 | The spreading tentacles of Russian railways into Asia marked the last great imperial push of the Tsarist empire . |
| 28 | The soft red/brown sandstone buildings at Brechin form the last Caledonian branch line terminus . |
| 29 | Only a late-order rally through the efforts of Godfrey Furse and skipper Graham Watts helped the last three wickets add 41 runs . |
| 30 | Ireland 's Darren Clarke , Sweden 's Robert Karlsson and the veteran Argentine Vicente Fernandez all shot 67 , while Gilford birdied the last two holes to return 70 and hang on to second place — only two strokes behind his England Dunhill colleague . |