Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When it gets to the last line the beam shoots back to the top . |
| 32 | The following month , in the same journal , a swift refutation of these tenets came in the shape of a letter from a consultant histopathologist by name of J.V. Clark , who responds to the last point regarding the relations ' not understanding what is being asked when a postmortem is requested , by pointing out that in all probability funeral directors do not explain the procedure of embalming to the next of kin and , more seriously , maintaining that delay would reduce the maximum benefit of an autopsy and also delay the funeral . |
| 33 | The predominant key of the opera is D minor , a sombre key with overtones of night and death ; while the dramatic scenes in the graveyard and at Giovanni 's last supper-party , when the statue appears for the last time , are reinforced with funereal-sounding trombones . |
| 34 | With the particular choice of co , p4 enters into the last equation only . |
| 35 | If you put something like N H and then O H four well the convention is that when it 's a suffix stuff a subscript and a suffix below the line there and just after it , it only applies to the last element . |
| 36 | Well , I 'm really wanting to go to Birkdale , so I jumps on the last train out of St Andrews . |
| 37 | With the first two Tests of the four-match series also ending in draws , the outcome of the series rests on the last Test match starting at Sialkot on Saturday . |
| 38 | This belongs to the last days of 1870 , more than a year after the murder in the park . |
| 39 | Waldendale means the dale of the Welshman , Welsh being a word once used to describe any foreigner , though in this case it probably refers to the last remnants of the Celtic peoples who retreated to this dale in the face of Norse and Anglo-Saxon expansion . |
| 40 | Carry on like this throughout the row until only one is left , which goes on the last needle , overlapping the one already on it . |
| 41 | And we hit the bar as well , so it goes to the ninetieth minute does n't it , that 's what it is , a fifteen round fight goes to the last second does n't it as some boxers have found out . |
| 42 | It tells of the last penguin to leave the North Pole , left behind because he is afraid of swimming . |
| 43 | The tonic accent normally falls on the last item , but this does not tell us where the given element ends and the new one begins . |
| 44 | Of course , it may be argued that the Cash paid at the beginning of the year relates to the last quarter 's electricity for the old financial year and so this financial year includes four payments for electricity ; thus , the year 's payments do reflect the cost of electricity . |
| 45 | The first Attic black-figure coincides with the last phase of the old Geometric and orientalising tradition of the monumental grave-vase . |
| 46 | It follows from the last paragraph that there are at least two different ways of studying a community 's use of language and attitudes towards it . |
| 47 | Yet/in any event we have a firm idea about the most effective path and unreservedly recommend that at the beginning of the project one looks at the list of telephone numbers and addresses on the last page of this brochure . |
| 48 | Dates from the last day of |
| 49 | It dates from the last years of Egyptian independence and was still being built during the lifetime of Christ . |
| 50 | Ogden and Richards , in contrast , stress that words are used to ‘ point to ’ things , and that their meaning does in the last analysis depend on the things they are used to point to , their referents ; language may be different from reality , therefore , but it nonetheless reflects it . |
| 51 | The show , with a catalogue by Martin Butlin and Robin Hamlyn , runs through the last day of this month . |
| 52 | ‘ It 's now a tradition that she comes for the last week of the campaign , ’ he says . |
| 53 | After the music stops for the last time the first man to return the ladies ' shoes and collect up all his clothing is allowed to kiss every woman in the room ! |
| 54 | This month 's front-lines-of-natural-history dispatch comes from the last stop before the North Pole — Norway 's Svalbard island , where assistant producer Amanda Barrett and cameraman Owen Newman — having arrived to shoot a film about arctic foxes — found themselves alone in a cabin outpost many miles across sea , tundra and ice from the nearest point of civilisation . |
| 55 | — Comes from the last syllable of barracões the Portuguese word for buildings constructed for holding slaves before they were sold . |
| 56 | In most opinion reports from the last months of the war , there is little or no mention of the Führer and the attitudes of the population towards him . |
| 57 | deepends in the last lesson . |
| 58 | It runs until the last day of this month . |
| 59 | Perhaps the most moving sentence in the whole book comes in the last chapter as he takes his leave of his reader : ‘ For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes , but what you would like to be . ’ |
| 60 | I 've had £230-worth of parking fines in the last couple of months ! ’ |