Example sentences of "[vb infin] to the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together . |
2 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
3 | In deference to you , Mr. Speaker , perhaps I had better not respond to the last part of my hon. Friend 's question , but I entirely agree with the spirit of his comments . |
4 | " The Trieste crisis blew up with an intensity which at the time suggested that it might lead to the last battle of the Second World War or the first of the Third World War . " |
5 | Yeah , I mean what was nice in , in a way was that er I could n't go to the last meeting I was n't well , I had a cold er , what was nice in a way was that David who 's the general manager and the general manager from Pitlochry had come in , I mean in a way it was a classic case |
6 | Did you come to the last history meeting |
7 | In order to prevent the display from scrolling , you must not write to the last column of the last row . |
8 | Eventually orders came through confirming the worst : the Austrian cuirassiers were to stay there and fight to the last man . |
9 | They ask the Duke to do away with the Act , because it will turn the Atholl Highlanders into slaves , and if he will not , they will fight to the last drop of their blood . ’ |
10 | Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life . |
11 | ‘ She has a character of iron , like me , and will fight to the last ditch . |
12 | And she would do it , Emily clenched her hands into fists , she would fight to the last breath to keep her heritage and to preserve the good name of the Grenfells . |