Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , the use of purveyance began to attract criticism in the last fifteen years of the reign . |
| 2 | Slick catching aided the West Indies effort , Lara setting the pattern by swooping low to his left as the solitary slip to despatch Wessels off the last ball of the day 's third over , and their captain gone , the South Africans never appeared to have the conviction that they could achieve their moderate target . |
| 3 | He argues that the depression marks the exhaustion of firms ' ability to obtain profits from the last generation of innovations and their low profit rates force them to take radical steps . |
| 4 | ‘ Those who might be safe would be still looking to win games in the last few weeks to improve their position . ’ |
| 5 | Those poor men had a lot of problems driving in the poles to carry the lines and were obliged to use explosives on the last stretch over my land because they came across solid rock . |
| 6 | Even though this was Jack 's own tournament , I decided to quit Jack after the last event of 1983 , the Chrysler Invitation , and start fresh with Greg next year . |
| 7 | You can do this on Midland machines simply by pressing the appropriate button , And in some of our branches there are machines where you can use your card to see details of the last few account transactions or print out a short-form statement . |
| 8 | The besieged President refused to concede defeat on the last day of his campaign yesterday . |
| 9 | But City are prone to concede goals in the last quarter of an hour and bang on the 75th minute the impressive young Dodd fed a wonderful 30-yard pass to Rod Wallace , who held off two defenders to equalise . |
| 10 | Over such key issues as the European Common Market he had followed a prudent , unadventurous course , only moving to endorse membership at the last moment when political circumstances seemed so to dictate . |
| 11 | But Aherne , on his game , has the considerable virtues of gritty defence , stretching far beyond the normal demands on a scrum-half , so often turning up to save situations as the last line in the defensive fortifications . |
| 12 | If you wish to self-certify your earnings , you will have to supply accounts for the last year . |
| 13 | Indeed , in the eight events since his last victory in which he has finished third equal or better , he has never once failed to beat par in the last round . |
| 14 | Jeff Jaye with ‘ I know it 's difficult to get the wood , Mr Noah , but can you imagine the cost of a rotomoulded Ark ? ’ and Simon Dawson with ‘ Shaun Baker comes out of retirement to offer advice on the last great waterfall . ’ |
| 15 | Japanese attempts to change Japan in the last 150 years have been both imitative and derivative , but have been accompanied by conscious and unconscious retention of indigenous characteristics and the ‘ simulation ’ of traditional Japanese attributes , plus a fair measure of originality . |
| 16 | Well … we ( England ) are all rooting for you to beat Holland in the last game : - ) |
| 17 | ‘ Or else the server would have to add poison at the last moment — surely very risky . |
| 18 | Where is the Wagon Train that seemed permanently to be circling its wagons waiting for a drunken pioneer 's wife to have twins in the last of them ? |
| 19 | This process was to gain momentum in the last three decades of the nineteenth century , reaching a peak in the years before the First World War . |
| 20 | Lee Don Lau is the fourth Oxford student to commit suicide in the last year . |