Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lombard 's Pictures may lack the last degree of individual characterisation , but at budget price this version can be given a warm welcome . |
| 2 | The notice must specify the last date for proving which must be not less than twenty-one days after the date of the notice ( r 11.2(2) ) . |
| 3 | Mr Prokhorov should have the last word . |
| 4 | A quarter of non-executives believed they should have the last word on mergers ( 10% of chief executives agreed ) and a fifth ( compared with 3% of the bosses ) thought they should approve major borrowings and loans . |
| 5 | This was adopted by the House of Lords in the GCHQ case , where Lord Diplock said that ‘ National security is the responsibility of the executive government ; what action is needed to protect its interests is … a matter upon which those upon whom the responsibility rests , and not the courts of justice , must have the last word . ’ |
| 6 | Competitors must have the last touch of the ball before it goes on it way . |
| 7 | You should read the last word on this |
| 8 | The package module must contain itself as a SELECTED version , and the issue number must match the last entry in the MODIFICATION-RECORDS-ARE field . |
| 9 | Perhaps I should leave the last word to my son . |
| 10 | To them must belong the last word . |
| 11 | However , where the payment relates to work executed in two costing periods the accountant may choose the last period , the period when the majority of the work was undertaken , or split the payment between two cost periods . |
| 12 | Children may repeat the last year if they are not ready to move up . |
| 13 | With Michael Hue-Williams attempting the tricky task of renegotiating the terms of the lease on his first-floor gallery , there are fears that these works may comprise the last exhibition in his elegant space in Old Bond Street . |
| 14 | I 'd like the words when they 're crytalised … since thefirst thing my daughter ( now 19months ) learned to do was the arm movements to ‘ ooh aah Cantona ’ , I suppose I should teach her something new … perhaps I 'll modify the last phrase though ; - ) |
| 15 | Can I just mention that nobody 's read that but you 'll see the last sentence says that whatever you put on that tape the dictionary keep the copyright you see and that 's all right when you 're on conversations , but if you were to read in an and it was a short story , if that 's you know i if they reserve |
| 16 | He could appreciate that a collection might become the last refuge and hope for survival of an endangered species , but the knowledge did little to modify his response ; apart from the dogs ' home where he 'd once been bought a sick puppy , it was one of the saddest places he knew . |
| 17 | Now in you get or you 'll miss the last crossing . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Or I 'll miss the last bus . |
| 19 | She 'll have the last word because she has nature on her side . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You may think you 've won , but I 'll have the last laugh . |
| 21 | If we could have erm , a coffee break now until ten past three , and then we 'll enter the last phase on the , on the Covermaster , one of the last areas which is features to benefits . |
| 22 | But I 'll go the last step of the way , and ask the last man . ’ |
| 23 | And as Rex and Khai Eng , still thriving in an area which has seen plenty of other vegetarian establishments come and go , get ready to enter their second decade , perhaps we 'll leave the last word to Rex : |
| 24 | You 'll get the last bop . |
| 25 | You may remember the last thing the suede coat did before crashing down the alley was to blast off his sawn-off shotgun and watch us diving to the ground . |
| 26 | You 'd think the last occupant went bankrupt and left years ago . |
| 27 | Alborne seemed content to sit on their eight-goal lead but , when four Whaddon players left the pitch with ten minutes to go so they could catch the last bus , it was too good an opportunity to miss , and Alborne finally ran out winners by eleven goals to nil . |
| 28 | Meanwhile she had many friends who took up her cause : memorial concerts were given in Prague and Vienna ; she received a gratuity from the Elector of Cologne ; and the King of Prussia offered to purchase several compositions for 100 ducats each ( including the Requiem which Constanze made sure was ‘ completed ’ by Süssmayr so that she could collect the last instalment of money due from Count Walsegg ) . |
| 29 | No one could remember the last time anyone had stayed there , or , indeed , if anyone ever had . |
| 30 | Above the nervous chatter that continued once the corporal had left , Charlie could hear the last post being played on a bugle from the castle battlements . |