Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I grumble about the last movement of the Tchaikovsky , I certainly would not complain about the delicacy of the pizzicato of the third movement . |
| 2 | Hunt for the last wolf in Norway |
| 3 | GREAT Britain full back Graham Steadman has been fined £1,000 for failing a drugs test after the last match of this summer 's Lions tour . |
| 4 | Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet . |
| 5 | Right , so erm , what 's happened to , to world trade over time , say in the last century , what major changes have taken place in world trade ? |
| 6 | Before we come on to look at that , can somebody tell me what 's happened to world trade say in the last century , what are the major trends in world trade ? |
| 7 | Researches into Border ballads were to lead to the composition of Scott 's immensely popular Lay of the Last Minstrel . |
| 8 | Now I die for the last time . |
| 9 | Consumers equate the gross price to the value of the marginal benefit they receive from the last film , but producers equate the marginal cost of films to the lower net-of-tax price of films . |
| 10 | Try the following two fillings ( they can both be prepared a day in advance and refrigerated ) , but wait until the last minute before filling the choux buns to prevent the pastry going soggy . |
| 11 | Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that ! |
| 12 | Their calibre , though , is impossible to deny : listen to the last half of Divine Madness and you 'll hear the most consistently pugnacious and provocative music British pop has turned up in the last 15 years . |
| 13 | A fitting finale — and summons to the Last Judgement , be ye Saint or Sinner . |
| 14 | He scored a three count on the last end of the final match against Essex for victory as Suffolk 's young bowlers held their breath for an improbable win . |
| 15 | I believe in taking action on fact and not fantasy , but I think it was Lord Zuckerman who was the scientific advisor to the government , who said that government has never taken preventive measures that would prove to be unjustified , and if you always wait to the last moment before being convinced to do anything , that 's often a moment too late . |
| 16 | ‘ Welcome to the last outpost of British incompetence , ’ beams Victor Gauntlett , extending a large hand and an air of bonhomie . |
| 17 | Welcome to the last session of the day . |
| 18 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 19 | One afternoon the following week , Mary was coming into the yard having been to hear the banns read for the last time , when she came upon a group of local women standing around gossiping about the wedding . |
| 20 | blank entries which lie between the last entry of the data being scrolled and the last line of the scrolled area , ( the DEFAULT marker ) . |
| 21 | As far as I recall from the last meeting . |
| 22 | Look at the Last Night of the Proms from the Albert Hall ; the whole country joins in . |
| 23 | Before we look at the last goal of transformation , unbending curved relationships , it will be helpful to return briefly to the debate about the goals of development . |
| 24 | to write to the Health and Safety Executive asking for a report on their findings of their investigation into the causes of the explosion , and erm after several letters , if you recall at the last meeting I was asked to write to MPs and so forth . |
| 25 | Erm y'know erm it 's also erm perhaps interesting the way things have er have shifted you know in the last decade or so , like that thing that erm used to be on in the seventies , It Ai n't Half Hot Mum , with um a number of people pretending to be Indians and and exhibiting all the stereotypes y'know it ai n't half racist mum is probably more erm er in fact there was a book called It Ai n't Half Racist Mum that er Leicester University library had er y'know going on about exactly that you know the sort of y'know racism of comedy . |
| 26 | He is a warm , caring person underneath as we hear in the last sentence , spoken by the uncaring Carlson , |
| 27 | Rangers paid a heavy price for a similar gaols leak in the last round and now only a win in Turkey can take United through . |
| 28 | The contrast is striking , and can not be dismissed as irrelevant to the social and other problems that we confront in the last decade of our century . |
| 29 | they tend to drift away when they get to the last year anyway , you know ? |
| 30 | Measure at the last fret position the distance from the rule to the edge of the neck . |