Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] last [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickly slipping into a sleeveless straight shirt-waister dress of pink shantung , Laura was just fastening the last button when she heard the sound of the doorbell . |
| 2 | the first bit yeah you 're remembering the last bit when you 're remembering that you 've forgot the first bit . |
| 3 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |
| 4 | It 's as famous and disturbing a last shot as that of All Quiet On The Western Front . |
| 5 | Against that , coach Ian McGeechan would contend that the captain deserved no small measure of credit for the way Scotland refused to buckle , actually winning the last quarter when all England were looking for a scoring holocaust . |