Example sentences of "try [verb] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( If you tried to swap the last column of a table without doing so you would jumble up your text ) |
| 2 | So try knitting the last row from the opposite side to your normal way and have another try . |
| 3 | Conference organisers may well be cutting their own throats in the long run if they try to wring the last penny ( or cent ) out of the latest bandwagons . |
| 4 | Or you could be sensible and stop trying to squeeze the last drop of current from the transformer ! |
| 5 | I found myself fronting various current affairs programmes , striving for impeccable balance when the wily professional politicians were at loggerheads in the studio , each trying to have the last word and score the final point . |
| 6 | Barns were supposed to have hay in them — they did in the movies — where the hero could hide while the baddies , with a total disregard for blood poisoning or spread HIV , jabbed a pitchfork in and out like a demented barman trying to get the last maraschino out of the bottle . |
| 7 | Well as usual we could n't remember the last time you came , I was trying to think the last time |