Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 2 | Outside , the snow blotted out the last irregularities in the flowerbed , making it one with the lawn . |
| 3 | That 's the summary I handed out the last week , you would n't have got |
| 4 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 5 | We rushed up the last pitches having learned a lesson — next time I 'll take a windbreaker , even on a hot day . |
| 6 | She remembers the way the sun would sink down as the combine sliced out the last ranks of the wheat . |
| 7 | As Rabbi Glikstein read out the last rites at his levoyah , those words rang in my ears . |
| 8 | The eternal westerly swell rolled lazily across our wake and wiped out the last trace of our intrusion . |
| 9 | The small group struggled up the last piece of the embankment , Teversham necessarily in the rear and Francis Morgan stumbled almost on to McLeish 's feet . |
| 10 | He took out the last reed — looked at it — was going to split it , but his horse reached back and snatched the reed from him . |
| 11 | Troops mopped up the last pockets of resistance by men loyal to the former rebel movement , Unita . |
| 12 | He impulsively ran down the last flight of stairs . |
| 13 | My heart cried out to it , but when I approached it , it summoned up the last dregs of its strength and paddled frantically away to the middle of the lake , where I had been instructed never to go . |
| 14 | Later , she washed down the last table and put the final glass in the dishwasher . |
| 15 | There were three letters and an electricity bill addressed to Mrs Emma Funnell , three circulars and — she picked up the last envelope — a cheap blue paper one and addressed to herself , not as Mrs Margaret Jones , but Mrs Peggy Jones . |
| 16 | He picked up the last letter . |
| 17 | The combination roared along Castle Walk , echoing into the empty courtyard of the Berkeley Hunt kennels as it careered up the last hill into the tiny village . |