Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 2 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 3 | This came to dominate in the last years of the century . |
| 4 | In the meantime , opinion began to move towards the last of the possibilities — and the one which suited Baldwin the best — a minority Labour Government . |
| 5 | At Rackhams in Birmingham , sales have already beaten last year 's figures after the store decided to open on the last four Sundays before Christmas . |
| 6 | Blackburn managed to equalise in the last five minutes and won it 3–4 in extra time . |
| 7 | Having outlived Dean and Adams , Hopper indulged himself during the early seventies in autobiographical ego trips that nobody went to see like The Last Movie and The American Dreamer . |
| 8 | He turned an enquiring gaze upon her as she marched towards the house , but before following her he held out his hands to Millie as she went to jump off the last step , saying now in a low tone , ‘ It looks a good enough day ’ — he pointed to the back of the cart — ‘ what 's up ? ’ |
| 9 | Suddenly , Molly 's back arched and lifted his entire weight off the floor as she reached her climax The noises she made finally triggered Yanto who , with great effort , managed to withdraw at the last second . |
| 10 | ‘ Sixty-four thousand people applied to get on the last series and most of the letters were written in crayon because they 're not allowed to use sharp instruments . |
| 11 | Regeling , who had one nasty fall , had to wait until the last race for his first win . |
| 12 | They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute . |
| 13 | Dozens of beleagured businessmen in the midst of a painful recession were due to hear Michael Hesletine speak at this conference in Oxfordshire , but the President of the Board of Trade had to cancel at the last minute and the delegates instead got a DTi stand-in . |
| 14 | Indeed it is a feature of this scene that the tension is kept up to the very last pizzicato , and of course it is no accident that Britten , when he made the concert version of the fourth interlude , had to jump to the last two pages of the act to get his conclusion . |
| 15 | I did not see the trophy presented this time as I had to leave before the last race . |
| 16 | At the beginning of September 1942 , the German 6th Army under General Paulus had reached Stalingrad — a city whose capture would have had symbolic significance ; on 19 November a major Soviet counter-offensive had begun and led , within only a few weeks , to the encirclement of the 250,000 men of the 6th Army ; by Christmas 1942 the situation was as good as hopeless ; on 10 January , the last Russian assault commenced ; on 31 January Paulus — disobeying orders of the Führer that the troops had to fight to the last man — surrendered , and almost 90,000 survivors entered Soviet captivity , from whom only a small minority were to return . |
| 17 | Luckily , one of the participants had to withdraw at the last moment and taking her place on the team , I went off in search of sponsors . |
| 18 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 19 | The borough MPs were very different from their county colleagues , and only thirty-seven of the eighty-six from English boroughs even lived in the same towns ; many were carpet-bagging lawyers , induced to stand at the last moment and at the expense of Central Office . |
| 20 | It took a very short time indeed , and with every step Jenna 's trembling lessened , although she refused to think about the last few moments in the barn with Alain . |
| 21 | Although Denmark and the UK won temporary exemption from lifting internal border controls , Spain refused to sign at the last minute on the grounds that the agreement might prejudice its claims to sovereignty over Gibraltar . ] |