Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the last [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He moved to the window , walking with a pronounced limp on his left leg , the result of a shrapnel wound in the last days of the Korean War .
2 The High Elf sorcerers had succeeded in opening the vortex but were trapped within it , eternally keeping it open , eternally trapped in the last moments of their battle with Chaos .
3 However , their most striking innovation is in the way work is now organised in the last stages of the production process in the body shop .
4 At this time his poetic inspiration returned , and some of his finest work was written in the last weeks of his life , including his most famous poem , ‘ Heart of the Heartless World ’ .
5 Louis XIV had seen in the last days of his reign the growing pointlessness of the traditional Franco-Austrian antagonism , but his efforts to achieve some agreement with the Habsburgs were not followed up by his successors .
6 Here a determined attempt was made in the last decades of the fourth century to uphold the ancient Roman religion along with the classical culture with which it was associated .
7 The phenomenon had first been noticed in the last years of Victoria 's reign , among the new generation coming through who would be the new Edwardians and who would inherit the new century .
8 Of course it had belonged among those unhappy mad thoughts which she had had in the last days .
9 The industry is expected to excuse itself by highlighting the last-minute change in voters ' allegiances , reflected in the last polls .
10 Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War .
11 November — We are often better favoured in the last weeks of the season … ’
12 Dismissed in the last months of his life as a spent force who would not match the powerful energy invested in the compositions which he had created at the beginning of his nine-year career , Basquiat briefly recaptured , by the unhappy circumstances of his death , an image of glamour and a wave of speculation which pushed the prices of virtually unsaleable pictures to $500,000 .
13 A fascinating example of the dehistoricization of history is provided by the two novels published to date by the poet Roberto Pazzi , Cercando l'imperatore ( Looking for the Emperor 1985 ) and La principessa e il drago ( The Princess and the Dragon 1986 ) , both set in the last years of Tsarist Russia .
14 Even HG Wells might not have believed in the last years of the 20th century , plans were being laid to walk across the Martian south pole .
15 In the silence of his shelter he was finally letting the true sorrow he felt for all that had happened in the last months come into him , and he was beginning to grieve .
16 His long struggle to prevent the development of a rival port in neighbouring Parton was finally lost in the last months of Lowther 's life .
17 His father would never have heard of Isaac Rosenberg , an English poet , killed in the last weeks of the ‘ war to end all wars ’ .
18 The 66-year-old President , an agricultural economist by training , was generally regarded as a more approachable and pragmatic politician than his predecessor , and therefore better equipped to manage the process of political liberalization which had begun in the last months of Chiang 's presidency .
19 This underlies the necessity of the mutuality mentioned in the last paragraphs .
20 The Trade Negotiations Committee ( TNC-the highest-level body involved in the Uruguay Round ) agreed on July 27 that the final ministerial meeting of the Uruguay Round should be held in the last weeks of 1990 , and accepted an invitation from the European Communities ( EC ) and Belgium that the meeting should be in Brussels , the Belgian capital .
21 A prophetic warning came from Canon Hensley Henson in his pamphlet Cui Bono ? , published in the last years of the century .
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