Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 3 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |
| 4 | Certainly , salmon seem to use smell to guide them on the last stage of their journey . |
| 5 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |
| 6 | But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season . |
| 7 | Only we I do n't , I do n't know about you but I do n't want to leave it until the last minute |
| 8 | ‘ I kept sending the demands back and when I went in I was told not to worry , they had to send them to the last known address . |
| 9 | Would some lingering affection for the man she had once married have driven her to France to see him for the last time ? |
| 10 | Erm just to refer you to the last sentence , paragraph four three , er to assure members of the Committee that those er representation whether the erm application . |
| 11 | IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There 's no doubt I had chances to nail it in the last set , but you 've got to hand it to Dennis . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've come to advise you on the last two appointments to your team . ’ |
| 14 | Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment . |
| 15 | Thus it is that the Tamar , beautiful as the nymph whose name she bears , winds her way from the rugged north coast between the hills , to be joined by the Tavy , flowing from Dartmoor to join her for the last few miles to the sea , while the luckless Torridge flows ever northward in vain pursuit of Tamara 's beauty . |
| 16 | ‘ The commission took into consideration their record over the past five years , ’ said Graham Kelly , the FA 's chief executive , ‘ but they also noted that they had taken steps to improve it over the last 18 months . ’ |
| 17 | The Queen Mother is of course impeccably bred , though she 's failed to make it to the last 3 Chelsea Flower Shows and looks as if she 'll remain at home again this year . |
| 18 | Yet if part of the problem at Ibrox in respect of injury has been caused by the addition of European Champions league matches to an already congested domestic schedule , it is only Vogts 's good fortune that no German side was able to make it to the last eight of the European Cup . |
| 19 | Annabel had said as much to Father Ross the last time he had come to tea , and Father Ross had looked at her sternly over his glasses , saying that if we all understood the way the Universe was run what would there be left for God to tell us on the Last Day . |