Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also a triumph over the devil , who was thought to be particularly active at death-beds , either gloating over the sinner who was about to fall into his clutches , or trying at the last moment to snatch a soul in the throes of fear or doubt . |
| 2 | He could n't go back now , not after all the planning and scheming of the last few months . |
| 3 | He looked round him , upon the desolation of the field between Bryn Glas and the river , littered and faintly heaving still with bodies and cast arms , and groaning with the last convulsions of struggle and pain . |
| 4 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 5 | The multinationals have moved to other countries because of the civil war and according to the last report , in May 1983 , there were only four factories still operating in the multinational industrial parks . |
| 6 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 7 | Thus we find unc and dividing by the last element , we find as a starting column co for iteration with A1 unc The iterations give us successive columns as in Table 1 . |
| 8 | There are burial chambers and standing stones from the Bronze Age , Iron Age forts , and tramways from mining and quarrying in the last century . |