Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 2 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 3 | I proceeded to catch up on the last ten years of what everyone had been doing . |
| 4 | Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training . |
| 5 | It hit it hit Ian Stringfellow last week and caused Nicky Platten now to pull out at the last minute last night . |
| 6 | just home from her studies at college in California , teamed up with Welsh junior champion Claire Bennett , also of Mold , to go through to the last four of the women 's doubles . |
| 7 | ‘ In preparing this Address I had the opportunity to reflect back over the last thirty years , reliving those working days when wages were extremely low , working conditions poor and when in industry a person 's life was cheap . |
| 8 | What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of ‘ meaning theism ’ which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for . |
| 9 | Nor has the Department decided whether it is going to contribute towards the considerable capital cost of new computers , causing doctors to put off to the last minute a decision on which system to choose . |
| 10 | I will concentrate upon two of the more difficult threads in the pattern I attempted to draw out in the last chapter , and will try to develop them further in a more philosophically coherent way . |
| 11 | The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well . |
| 12 | It would have been customary to allow the animal its own head , and to hold on to the last truck , or hitch a lift by hanging onto the end . |
| 13 | Generals , officers , non-commissioned officers , and men fought shoulder to shoulder down to the last shot . |
| 14 | ‘ Not if you 're going to back off like the last one did . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't want this match to end up like the last two Tests . ’ |
| 16 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
| 17 | WHAT do you do when the date and time of your official opening has been set , the invitations sent out and your guest of honour has to drop out at the last minute due to matters of national importance ? |
| 18 | But the task of clearing hundreds of tips was too much for them to take on at the last minute . |
| 19 | And that things would tend to drag on to the last minute and then they would start and then it would it go forward . |
| 20 | BA is keeping its distance from attempts by Stephen Wolf and Jay Pritzker to revive the bidding consortium , but there are still hopes in the US that it could be persuaded to step in at the last minute to add weight to a new bid . |
| 21 | but I said well at least you 've got it all done , you do n't have to rush around at the last minute . |