Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.

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1 They ca n't gazump you at the last minute cos it makes
2 He did n't catch us until the last peak , Creag nan Damh , where a number of ridge-walkers were gathered , basking in the delight of the afternoon and resting on their laurels after a mammoth expedition .
3 I can not chuck them at the last minute .
4 Curtis , fully aware that this was the last night of the Prophet 's current crusade , had anticipated that he might choose it for a last hunting expedition , before retreating to his lair upstate .
5 Efforts to strengthen and improve it in the last decades of the century had only moderate success .
6 Let me be able to wash and dress myself to the last .
7 One day soon she would see him for the last time .
8 Should one see him as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites ?
9 I ca n't remember anything in the last fifteen years or so that has excited me in America .
10 He would meet me off the last train … .
11 The other one , could I just correct something on the last line of er , comment at the bottom of the , bottom of page two .
12 Oh and I 'll have one for the last card .
13 We did n't have one on the last play .
14 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
15 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
16 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
17 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
18 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
19 You could use it er , in the reverse of the way that the theory suggests , which you can actually leave it on the last diary page where you have something on your to do list that you have n't completed .
20 Manager Joe Royle said : ‘ We will leave it until the last minute to give him every chance . ’
21 I must content myself with the last verse of a hymn in honour of St Bartholomew :
22 Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex .
23 We 'll put it as the last item .
24 He could now lose it on the last ball !
25 But Ferguson insisted : ‘ Let me make one thing crystal clear — Manchester United wo n't bottle it on the last lap of the championship .
26 On the day they want to , they will massacre you to the last man , and it is your duty to fall .
27 This belief , though not taught in the Old Testament , was widely held in the Jewish constituency among whom Paul worked : it is widely believed today that if only you try hard and do your best , God will accept you at the last .
28 Well , to hell with them , but I will say everything to the last word . ’
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