Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A searing fire of elation bathed him suddenly , driving away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 2 | distinguish between the Tunguska terminal explosion and energy released by ablation and deceleration during atmospheric entry , with the explosion representing just the last 1% of the bolide 's energy . |
| 3 | Work your way to the end of the plot — top spit into the bottom , bottom to the top — filling in the last trench with the barrowed soil . |
| 4 | DETECTIVES are appealing for help in piecing together the last movements of a man found dead in a street yesterday morning . |
| 5 | That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard . |
| 6 | Contestants who have finished relax with a drink or cheer on those struggling up the last stretch , some of them grasping frantically at disintegrating bales of straw . |
| 7 | That 's because 90 's intensive agriculture and the developer 's bulldozer are rather effective at wiping away the last finger-prints of the all too impermanent way . |
| 8 | " I 'd really like to mail a follow-up letter to all the people who sent bought more than £50 worth within 3 weeks of sending out the last brochure . " |
| 9 | The German sights in particular — torchlit orgies of Nazi triumph , Hitler ranting in Stuttgart , storm-troopers stamping out the last flickers of academic freedom in Freiburg — showed him what lay in store for Europe and are vividly recounted here . |
| 10 | We have even seen lecturers complete their lectures and leave the room while the students have had to sit for another few minutes taking down the last load from the blackboard ! |
| 11 | Slovenia in Milk Race CYCLING : Yugoslavia , who last competed in the Milk Race 30 years ago , will be represented by the breakaway state of Slovenia , which has joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in taking up the last places in a record field of 18 teams . |
| 12 | The rout of German self-opinion meant that while Britain , France , Holland and Belgium were busy shaking off the last vestiges of feudal restraint in order to industrialise , the Prussian reaction to defeat was to define their contribution to the world as Kultur — a commodity that was best seen as the absence of change . |
| 13 | ‘ That was absolutely delicious , ’ Polly had sighed , spooning up the last crumb , amazed that the extra pressure had not completely destroyed her appetite . |
| 14 | While Joan Templeman was in Los Angeles with her husband , playing out the last days of her marriage , Richard Branson was in Jamaica , doing business . |
| 15 | You can extend this kind of exercise almost endlessly , but it is vitally important to use the form of the same complete up-to-time sentence for each exercise , leaving only the last bit that changes . |
| 16 | By two o'clock , I had walked fifteen miles and was sitting on the wheelbarrow forking out the last sardine , when Mick and Paddy arrived . |
| 17 | She is clearing away the last glasses from the vigil , and when I come into her living room she has a cloth in her hand . |
| 18 | Some were lying on charpoys , snoozing away the last minutes before their first meal for thirteen hours . |
| 19 | Once , it had seemed that the candle of her life would burn only till Christmas , and that it was towards that single point that she was spinning out the last hours of her life . |
| 20 | Rachel watched him and felt the dam burst , smashing back the last barriers to her soul , and flooding her with a rush of overwhelming emotion . |