Example sentences of "until the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | They take less than 30 seconds to do and they should be left until the last moment before the cable or rope is attached . |
| 2 | The work went on until the last marcher had been patched up . |
| 3 | Until the last hundred years or so , the purchasing value of coins was closely related to the intrinsic value of the metal they were made from . |
| 4 | It was not until the last note of the closing music had died away that Bella clicked off the set . |
| 5 | I have been woken at 6.30am in Bavaria by deafening Wagner over the Tannoy , which continued until the last wretched sleeper was driven into a cold shower . |
| 6 | However , the election will be desperately close and the final result may not be known until the last constituencies ' counts are declared tomorrow . |
| 7 | The disabled racers will be kept behind motorcycle escorts until the last mile to prevent them reaching roads before they close . |
| 8 | As opposed to that special big-time type of failure who looks like a success until the last reel and then turns yellow and |
| 9 | The highways were kept free of traffic for four-and-a-half hours until the last straggler finished . |
| 10 | The ridge-walk was one of the most wonderful I can recall , as the sea of cloud broke up only on gaining the Creag Meagaidh plateau , and the day remained crystal clear until the last . |
| 11 | If the predator takes a wrong direction they remain in hiding until the danger is passed , but if it comes close again they wait until the last moment and then repeat the dash-and-hide movement . |
| 12 | All but one of the chiefs took the oath timeously , the exception being the aged McIan Macdonald of Glencoe who delayed until the last few days of 1691 . |
| 13 | He had rushed home , had a hasty meal , changed into evening-dress , and gone to the Capital cinema at Ibrox — to play in the orchestra until the last show , ending at 10.30 p.m . |
| 14 | The main , second and third wave , army , consisting of 100 battalions , or about 50,000 men , would be held in reserve until the last moment between the Lower Rhine and the River Meuse , apparently intended for Westphalia . |
| 15 | It was their home until the last Baronet died in 1938 . |
| 16 | When they find it , they do not say anything but sit quietly until the last person finds it when they shout ‘ Hooray ’ as loud as they can . |
| 17 | Those playing sit round in a circle on chairs and are numbered in sequence , until the last two are reached . |
| 18 | The children stand around the leader in a semi-circle and are numbered off until the last two become Jack and then King or Queen . |
| 19 | She and her Mum go to the pictures often , and on Saturday nights they fry steak and listen to the radio , and talk until the last embers have faded to ash . |
| 20 | She changed in the lorry with Martina , a sorrel mare with four white socks , who was never let out until the last moment , as she was driven so crazy by the flies . |
| 21 | Both their lorries were green , and so were their lead reins , anti-sweat sheets , buckets and bandages , and there were green braids on their splendid horses ' tails , which were left down until the last moment to protect them from the flies . |
| 22 | Up until the last minute of press day , our lines are always open , the overworked , underpaid hordes of YTS types we use to compile the stories thrashed to within an inch of their lives with our old school ties if they miss so much as one happening event . |
| 23 | The natural justification of my choice between the fruit would be something like ‘ The peach looked delicious ’ , which conveys the full information that I expected to be responding in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ until the last trace of the flavour faded from my mouth . |
| 24 | Forever anxious not to offend another cricketing nation , the Test and County Cricket Board will try until the last possible moment , before Graham Gooch 's players are due to depart on December 28 , to save the trip , even though New Zealand has offered a peaceful alternative . |
| 25 | It is not until the last quarter of the sixteenth century that the shrouded effigy appears as the central sculptural feature on funerary monuments . |
| 26 | Hunt 's steadily deflating tyre held up until the last corner before the pits ; in he came for a tyre change . |
| 27 | Once you have some tan , you can switch to a factor 5–6 , but save lower factors ( nothing lower than 3 or 4 ) until the last few days of a 2-week holiday , if you have a tan . |
| 28 | It seemed no time at all until the last model , wearing a mauve duchesse evening dress called ‘ Tour d'Eiffel ’ , had swished back through the gold curtain and Paul de Levantiére was standing to acknowledge the enthusiastic applause . |
| 29 | In fact they deserved every sympathy but they succeeded only in making themselves look obstructive and unreconstructed , relics of the pre-meritocratic days before the Heineken League , which of course they fought until the last ditch was so full of water they had to jump out . |
| 30 | The Star Ferry keeps on going , its little green ships bucking across the harbour in the growing swell until the last stragglers from Kowloon have made it to Hong Kong , and those bound north from the island have reached their goal . |