Example sentences of "[vb pp] to the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I expected , the hon. Gentleman responded to the last intervention by saying that a Labour Government would simply reintroduce rates . |
| 2 | The genitive suffix is always added to the last element of a word group : the Prince of Wales 's birthday ; a day or two 's rest . |
| 3 | It should be added to the last rinse in both machine and hand washes , and is suitable for all kinds of fabric . |
| 4 | Remembering how often she had bought skin care products and abandoned them she thought of the collection of half used jars and tubes in her dressing table drawer and came up this headline : " Our creams and lotions are all used up " with the striking visual of a tube squeezed to the last drop . |
| 5 | Although her owners had tried every method of finding her , including local radio appeals , Tim Charlesworth eventually turned to the last resort of hiring a helicopter to help in the search . |
| 6 | Unfortunately most of what we know about Coleman is related to the last decade or so of his life . |
| 7 | He was , for instance , punctilious about paying his models the agreed amount and would work out the precise sum owed to the last quarter of an hour . |
| 8 | And when they joined their ship , they had been plundered to the last farthing , most probably in debt and diseased in mind and body . |
| 9 | ‘ We were singing There was a Princess Long Ago and had just got to the last verse , ‘ Now everybody 's happy now ’ , when the headmistress came in and said the King had died . |
| 10 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 11 | I then resolution two which is continuing the process that we were introduced to the last Synod and the previous Synod consideration of the endless discussion document on Christian initiation . |
| 12 | What was in the bottle that he had thus publicly drained to the last drop ? |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman referred to the last time it occurred . |
| 14 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
| 15 | In fulfilment of this agreement a huge force , variously put at 15,000 and 30,000 men , had been assembled between Dunkirk and Boulogne , to follow up any initial success in a landing on the south or east coast , though the final choice of destination was to be left to the last moment , being largely dependent on the wind . |
| 16 | Everything is prepared very carefully ; food that wo n't spoil or collapse is made first and other dishes of a more fragile nature are left to the last moment so they are picture for the picture . |
| 17 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 18 | A similar identifying code was to be sent to the last endorsee or owner of record of the original bill , and this code allowed the printing of the bill of lading , which was used to claim the goods . |
| 19 | There seems no doubt that the dead prisoners were handcuffed and this infuriated Hitler , who in October ordered that ‘ all enemy troops taking part in the so-called Commando operations … in uniform or not … whether in battle or whilst escaping … will be destroyed to the last man ’ . |
| 20 | Such an event normally takes us to Dartmoor or Exmoor , has run on the same basis for the last few years and is planned to the last minute — so why the meeting ? |
| 21 | This may perhaps have corresponded to the last creation of the world , for the Maya believed that the world had been created and destroyed several times . |
| 22 | General von Laffert , the German commander on the spot , had ordered that both villages ‘ must be defended to the utmost and be held to the last man , even if the enemy cuts the connections on both sides and also threatens them from the rear . ’ |
| 23 | Sam 's mind quickly returned to the last time he had seen Clare , when she had returned early from the beach to find Sam in their bed , and not alone . |
| 24 | Typically the results of an offline operation are returned to the last LIFESPAN user to set an operation in motion so it is possible , for example , that two users could share the workload on alternate months . |