Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] the last [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet you still came across people who thought that South Africa would have won the last World Cup . |
| 2 | He might have had the last word , but he had n't really forgiven her for her temerity in trying to put him down . |
| 3 | If one 's opponent has anti-tank weapons I should have thought the last thing to send in would be tanks . |
| 4 | ‘ I must have spent the last week talking to hundreds of players . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you always have to have the last word ? ’ |
| 6 | Like the wind that guttered and blew out the candles , a bloodied man had broken through the dancers ' joy to break the glittering ball into dark fragments , yet still some few couples could not bear to relinquish the last moments of peace . |